L. Michael Morales – Diligently Teaching Your Children
Bernard of Clairvaux, the twelfth-century doctor of the church who penned the hymn “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded,” opens his devotional classic On Loving God with the following words: “You wish for me...
View ArticleJoe Holland – 8 Tips on How to Talk to Your Kids About the Sermon
They sit there next to you and their feet don’t even hit the floor. You’re thinking, “What, if anything, of this sermon is sinking into my kid’s head?” And with that little thought you’ve already...
View ArticleMichael Boling – Parents: Fight For Your Children
“whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew...
View ArticleMathew Sims – Parenting With Promise
I grew up in Christian tradition terrified of the world and culture. We dare not touch, taste, or see lest we become defiled as well. “We are not of the world,” I heard often. We should never ignore...
View ArticleJoey Cochran – Godly Parenting Isn’t Really Godly If It Lacks Affection
I’ve got three kids: a five-year-old girl, three-year-old boy, and a one-year-old girl. They are in the sweet spot of life where they crave attention and affection. First thing in the morning or as...
View ArticleRichard Baxter – Duties of Parents
Ungodly parents are the greatest servants of the devil in all the world, and the bloodiest enemies to their children’s souls! More souls are damned by ungodly parents, than by all other instruments!...
View ArticleBook Review – Parenting Against the Tide: A Handbook for 21st Century Parenting
As a relatively new parent of an adopted 13 year old, I definitely will raise both hands if asked whether parenting is a rough and tumble task. The responsibility of raising a child in the fear and...
View ArticleMichael Boling – Hammer It Home! (Deut. 6:6-9)
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and...
View ArticleAdam Parker – 7 Ways I Get My Kids to Listen Carefully During Scripture Reading
I used to be afraid to read stuff in the Bible to my kids (ages 8, 5, 4, and 1). I thought it would bore them and then they would beg me not to read the Bible to them ever again. If this happened, I...
View ArticleErik Raymond – Parents: Should You Mandate Bible Reading for your Children?
This is probably one of the most common questions I hear from parents wanting to establish Christian disciplines in their kids. Every Christian parent deals with this at some point. They struggle with...
View ArticleJonathan Parnell – A Prayer for the Parent’s Soul
Parenting is inescapably the work of waiting. As a parent, especially to young children, you are constantly devoting your time and energy into something that doesn’t produce immediate results. It is...
View ArticleGeoff Gleason – Parents Pay Attention: Modesty, Self-Control & Entertainment
Adultery. It is a prominent theme in the entertainment and fashion of our culture. I do not mean that every TV show or movie is about adultery, but adultery is part of most entertainment we see. Maybe...
View ArticleTedd Tripp – Walking by the Way
Education is a primary concern of Christian parents. That concern focuses on two points: We want to ensure that our children’s fund of knowledge is rich enough to equip them for life, and we want them...
View ArticleMatthew Fretwell – Is It Wise To Discipline A Child?
In today’s culture of raising children by only positive reinforcement (everyone gets a trophy); how do we reconcile the discipline of a child and Biblical truth? As a parent, I like to go to the book...
View ArticleRandy Alcorn – Developing Godly Qualities in Our Children
What qualities does God want us to develop in our children? No need to guess. Scripture tells us specifically: “And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to have mercy and to walk...
View ArticleMichael Boling – Parents: Clean The Filth From Your Home
For all you parents out there, please pay attention to this post as I am going to share something that is quite frightening, something, which you might be turning a blind eye to or are completely...
View ArticleWilliam VanDoodewaard – Reading as Parenting
When we think about parenting, the word “books” probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But reading to our children is a fundamental aspect of parenting little people, though we rarely talk...
View ArticleBook Review – Teaching True Love to a Sex at 13 Generation
Houston, we have a problem. Ours is a world consumed with sex, in particular matters of sexuality far from the manner in which God desires for such things to take place. This all consuming passion is...
View ArticleMichael Boling – Talking with Your Kids about Sex and Relationships
This past weekend, I read three books dealing with the same subject matter – the need for parents to talk with their children about God’s design for sex and godly relationships. What all three books...
View ArticleBook Review – More Than Just the Talk: Becoming Your Kids’ Go-To Person about...
There can be no denying (unless you want to play the role of the ostrich with their head in the sand) that our children are being exposed at earlier and earlier ages to all manner of sexual...
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