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New Year, New Family Routine
As families with growing children, we often have to evaluate the family routine. Our children change fast, and as parents, we have to navigate and set the pace for our ...
Imagine What Heaven Will Be Like: 5 Activities to Teach Kids about Heaven
Plus, key Bible verses to teach kids about HeavenI love it when people tell a story about a place I’ve already visited. I’m able to picture the details, the landscape, ...
The Bedtime Battle
If you’re raising small children or have raised small children, then you know the bedtime battle is real. I have the opposite problem now with teenagers in my house who ...
Motivating Teenagers to Read Devotions
As the mother of two teenagers, I’m always looking for good influences, whether it be people, videos, or books, that will reinforce the lessons we have spent over a decade ...
How to Help Our Kids Overcome Fear
Fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous and likely to cause pain or a threat. It’s the belief. That little ...
We Have a Great Big God: Teaching Kids the 3 O’s of God’s Character
There is no doubt that we serve a great big God. He is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. But if we use those adjectives to describe God’s bigness to our young ...
Parenting: The Hardest Job You’ve Ever Done
I think all parents would agree that parenting is the hardest thing they’ve ever done. It’s a big job to raise up little people to love God, love others, and ...
Setting Social Media Boundaries for Kids and Teens
The world has changed a lot since I was a kid.My teenage years were either spent with my head buried in a book, stretching the phone cord to my room ...
The Best Books of the Bible for Kids to Start Reading
Are you ready to get your kids reading the Bible on their own but not sure where to start? Check out my picks for the best Old Testament and New ...
7 Tips to Help Tween Girls Develop a Healthy Body Image
I have an eleven-year-old daughter. I’m amazed at how, even at her young, tender age, society has already influenced her body image by communicating what is beautiful and what is ...
The Beauty of Adoption: I Prayed for You
Adoption is a beautiful thing. Giving a child a family means giving them hope, love, and belonging. Thats’s what God wants for all of us. Adoption was His idea, and ...
Messy Moments of Parenting
“Oh, your kids were so good. They didn’t fight at all. I can watch them anytime.”Have you ever heard words similar to that when picking your kids up from the ...
How to Teach Your Child To Be A Good Friend
A friend loves at all times… – Proverbs 17:17How do you teach your child to be a good friend? Teach them to love.Simple, right?Maybe we should just stop this post ...
Asking Your Kids for Forgiveness
Forgive ~ stop feeling angry or resentful towards someone for an offense, flaw, or mistake.We’ve worked hard to teach our kids the difference between saying, “I’m sorry” and “Will you ...
My Favorite Moms of the Bible
The Bible is full of amazing women and mothers who set such a good example for us to follow. I love reading about the moms of the Bible who had ...
How Kids Can Change The World
We all want our kids to grow up and be world changers in the positive sense of the word, don’t we? We want them to be lights of the world ...
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Free Online Bible Study with Lysa TerKeurst
Having your trust broken can be life-altering, but it doesn't have to be life-ruining.... Join the FREE Online Bible Study with Lysa TerKeurst and get access to 6 study videos and other Bible study resources - all free when you sign up! Study starts 1/21