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Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Growing Your Faith Together

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The Gift of Peace

God’s children are given access to His peace. Here’s how.

Telling the Truth With Love and Respect

People often decide that it is best to remain quiet when feeling unloved or disrespected. They suppress those feelings, but avoiding the real issue can actually be unloving or disrespectful.

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Cultivate Compassion in Your Kids

You can help your kids see the value of the overlooked and unloved. Explore how you can develop and grow your child’s capacity for compassion in their relationships and friendships.

Courageous

When challenges come, married couples can make a conscious choice to look to God instead of falling under pressure, being fearful of the future or blaming each other. 

Fostering Integrity In Your Child

Who are your kids when you’re not around?

Holding on to Faith When Life Doesn’t Go Your Way

Whether you’re dealing with an unfaithful spouse or a child who is wreaking havoc in your home, rest assured that you, too, can have faith in the dark.

Can Virtue Be Taught?

Parenting is an opoprtunity to help shape, model and influence the character of your children.

Why Do Right?

Kids may not initially comprehend the importance of doing what is right, so parents can help them better understand that moral choices are good for them.

How God Uses Young Children

Never underestimate how God can use the hard times with young children to minister to others.

Jason Brown: From the NFL to Farming

From the football fields to the sweet potato fields, Jason Brown talks candidly about God’s directive for him to quit the NFL and farm for the poor in North Carolina.

The Burden of Responsibility

Seek ways to come alongside and help your spouse, encouraging him or her to remember it is God who gives us the ability to handle shared responsibilities.

7 Ways Your Kids Can Connect With God

Many Christian parents assume that their way of connecting with God is the way their children should connect with Him. But your child may connect with God very differently than you.

Tim and Kathy Keller on the Psalms: A guide for practical living

The book of Psalms is not just a matchless primer of teaching but a medicine chest for the heart and the best possible guide for practical living.

The Real Mission of Jesus

As your teens prepare to enter the world, help them recognize the real mission that Jesus modeled for us.

A Transformed Marriage

Just as God brought about transformation in Saul’s life, He can bring about transformation in ours, including in our marriage.

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Healthy Teamwork

Collaborating with our spouse in spiritual disciplines can strengthen our walk with Christ, as well as strengthen our marriage.

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Authentic Faith

Sometimes we mistakenly judge faith by superficial actions or by adherence to religious traditions. But when our faith is truly growing, the fruit of the Spirit will be evident in our lives.

God’s Word Is True

Some people see the Bible as a great work of literature; some consider it a historical chronicle of the Jews and early Christians, while still others read it as God’s supernatural revelation to humanity. In truth, the Bible is all these things and more. 

Misconceptions About Family Leadership

What does spiritual leadership mean to you? When preconceived notions are inaccurate.

The Gift of Prayer: Ask, Seek, Knock

Most parents want to help their kids develop a relationship with God that is fueled by prayer. Here’s how to start.