Blog for Christian Families, Parenting, & Marriage
Blog for Christian Families, Parenting, & Marriage
How to Encourage Our Kids’ Spirtual Gifts and Passions
If you spend a few minutes with children, one thing you’ll learn quickly is that they are passionate. Passionate with their emotions. Passionate with their desires. Passionate about causes. Passionate ...
5 Traits of a Good Friend (and How to Help Kids Develop Them)
As a mom of both young kids and older ones, I’ve learned how important it is for my children to find good friends.It’s been said that we are most like ...
The Legend of St. Nicholas
Nick followed his dad through the snow-dusted parking lot. “Not my idea of fun,” he muttered.“Hey, you’re the one who waited until the last minute to buy Christmas gifts for ...
It’s Never Too Soon To Share Jesus With Our Kids
6Over the course of our lives we may hold different jobs and fulfill many different roles, but the Bible makes one thing clear: the moment we become parents, raising children ...
Teaching Kids God's Never-Ending, All-Consuming Love
“I hate you!”My almost-8-year-old daughter’s refrain rings from the hallway as she stomps to her bedroom.I call after her, “I love you now and I’ll always love you.”That’s my refrain.Getting ...
Why You Should Bring Your Uniqueness Center Stage
Growing up I felt like I didn’t fit in.I was athletic enough to be on the team but not good enough to play in the games. I was friends at ...
Treat ‘Em Like Grandkids
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, ...
How To Create A Safe And Nurturing Bedtime Ritual For Your Kids
Do you find it easy to fill your kids’ non-school hours and days with stimulating social, intellectual and recreational activities but challenging to get them to wind down at the ...
The Hard Places That Make Us Holy
Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your ...
Helping Our Teen Daughters Find Their Own Beautiful
“Finding your own beautiful has a lot to do with deciding what kind of person you want to become.” – Chelsea Crockett It’s official. I’m the mom of a teenager. ...
Why Our Family Doesn't Celebrate Halloween
There are many schools of thought about the observance of Halloween by Christians.Should we participate in the activities around us? Do we dress up and hand out candy? What about ...
Bear Picks a Pumpkin (Pumpkin Spice and a Little Bear That’s Nice)
By the time you read this blog post, you’ll have already been inundated with pumpkin spice everything. It feels like every year the flavor pops up earlier than the last. ...
How Love Can Transform Our Children’s Lives
When it comes to parenting, most of us regard Proverbs 22:6 as our primary parental mission statement from God:Train up a child in the way he should go, and when ...
Celebrate the Harvest Season with Your Family
har·vest //ˈhärvist the consequence of an effort or activity the season for gathering crops the yield from plants in a single growing season the gathering of a ripened crop gather, ...
Grace: Resist the Funk
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. — Colossians 4:6Thought for the Day: The reason I can ...
How to Make Great Friends
Why is making friends so hard sometimes? I went through a season of my life where I felt like I had no friends. I had great relationships growing up, in ...
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