Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher In Psalm 141:3, we read, “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!” This verse echos the theme of dozens and dozens of verses in Scripture. And it’s not by accident that God warns us more than once to watch what we say. Our Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher 1 Peter 4:9 tells us to “offer hospitality to one another, without grumbling.” Extending hospitality is not just a nice thing for us to do; it is direct obedience to the command of God. Yet, sometimes it feels like drudgery. (This website contains affiliate links. Please see our disclosure policy for full Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Raising children who love to learn is a goal of just about every parent but not every parent believes they have the tools to do it properly. By learning how to identify your child’s innate smarts, you will have a unique advantage and a leg up on helping your kids recognize that Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Although the numbers show that children and teens have been the least affected physically by Covid-19, they certainly haven’t been immune to its other consequences. The sudden and often life-altering changes that have occurred since the spring of 2020 including school closures, parental job loss, and in some cases a lockdown in Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Money gives us opportunities to teach our children good and godly attributes and how to be shrewd, faithful, trustworthy, efficient, effective, accountable, and generous. Sure, these can be taught without using money, but our children would do well to learn how they all relate to money. One of the key Christian values Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher In our current culture, children are inundated with twisted messages about sex and sexuality–from billboards along the highway showing scantily clad models to the magazine rack at the grocery story declaring all kinds of sexually explicit headlines, sex is an unavoidable topic. And while we can feel pressed by the weight of Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Today we’re talking about family size and family dynamics. In case you weren’t aware, between the three of us, we have 16 children. Kate raised an only child, September has 10 children, and Jamie has 5. Interestingly enough, between 1976 and 2015, families with only children like Kate’s went from 11% of Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher It’s sometimes easy to give parenting directives and blanket advice or tips, but we know the importance and value of learning how to be a better boy mom and a better girl mom, So we have chosen to bring the conversation close to home this month and talk all-things-boys and all-things-girls. (This Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher “ ‘All things are lawful for me,’ but not all things are helpful. ‘All things are lawful for me,’ but I will not be dominated by anything.” 1 Corinthians 6:12 If your child is between the ages of 6 and 23, born between 1995 and 2012, then they are part of what’s Read More …
Listen here: iTunes |Spotify |Stitcher Proverbs 18:24 says, “A man that has friends must show himself friendly, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.” Friendships are important for all of us and maybe even more so for our children as they begin to navigate growing up and start to figure out how to Read More …