By Contributing Writer, Jeannette Paulson After church one day I bumped into a friend. Without preliminary small talk she asked “What has God been doing in your life lately?” Imagine my surprise. I mean, what had He been doing? Puritan pastors believed the Bible compels God’s people to have such conversations. They called it the [...]
Discipling Teens in God-Glorifying Relationships
By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert As Christian parents, we recognize that our sovereign, loving God placed our children in our care with the Great Commission charge to make disciples of them. When they hit the teen years, our children start to face challenges in their relationships with the opposite sex that our spiritual enemy will [...]
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The Most Difficult People to Witness to: Your Family
By Contributing Writer, Marci Ferrell But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26 When I first started writing this post I wanted to title it, “How Not to Witness to Family Members.” I believe I have more qualifications in writing about all my failures [...]
Avoiding Strained Relationships With Adult Children
By Contributing Writer, Marcia Wilwerding Over the last twenty years I have witnessed and experienced personally the heartbreak of strained relationships between parents and adult children. If you are struggling with this area of family relationships, I hope to share some key principles which may help smooth the way to an outcome which brings peace [...]
A Complicated Relationship: Honoring Your Parents in Adulthood
By Contributing Writer, Tyanne Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Ephesians 6:1-3 At 17 years old, I loved Jesus with all [...]
God’s Plan For Our Children’s Relationships
By Contributing Writer, Terry Covey Life’s Early Lessons It’s an awesome thing to consider that God cares about our children even more than we do! And part of that care is the clear instruction in His Word for us parents on the relationships our children will have in life. A huge part of parenting is [...]
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