Taming Your Tone
People listen to others when they genuinely sense their care and concern.
People listen to others when they genuinely sense their care and concern.
Nothing will help you be the godly parent your kids deserve more than knowing that the perfect parent, God himself.
How would your child answer these questions about you?
One of the easiest ways to show love to our children is to hug them often.
Home is to be the safe place for every child – the one place in life that they know they can count on to be solid no matter what.
Through the Holy Spirit, we are now able to produce the fruit of love in new ways through our lives and to our children.
When a parent holds both a child and a book at the same time, something special happens.
Continued prayers for Charlie’s family and friends, and our country.
Being real always earns more respect than being right.
Take sixty seconds or less to connect with your kids, and connect your kids to God, at the start of each day.
Whether for good or bad, you, as a father, will affect your daughter’s perception of who God is.
This involves intentionally giving them counsel and guidance to make good decisions on their own.
As a parent, never forget that your greatest God-given responsibility is leading your kids into a lifelong personal relationship with Jesus.
More than our kids will become what we say, they will become who we are.
Just as God created the unique beauty of the Colorado Rockies, God created your child as a unique expression of His image.
Don’t feel guilty or embarrassed to take some time for yourself.
Growing together spiritually in a church community of other believers is a key way to instill in kids a lifelong faith and godliness.
Our lives bound by time always have a way of forcing us to acknowledge our limits and reflect on the things that really matter most.
Our home is one thing we can’t afford to get wrong.
Don’t be ashamed to discuss what God was not ashamed to create.
Time flies, and so do the impressionable moments and years we have to make an impact.
God’s word and prayer are the lifeblood of our lives as Christians, but in our hectic lives, they sometimes get very little of our time and priority.
Resolve to live, and learn to love, every purposeful season in your life right now.
Kids want and need reassurance that you love them unconditionally just as God loves us.
Once boundaries and consequences have been established, they can be calmly and consistently enforced.
Each one will help you become a more godly parent your kids deserve.
As parents, we can begin to feel more like drill sergeants than disciple-makers, and experts at behavior management rather than heart shaping.
By teaching children self-awareness to self-correct over time, you can prepare them for the voice of the Holy Spirit.
They need to know that you are their nurturer, their protector, and their guide through the tough times of childhood, adolescence, and teenage years.
As you strive to be intentional, may 2025 be your family’s best year yet!
Christmas time is such a perfect opportunity to show our kids what grace truly looks like.
The holidays can be the most peaceful or the most stressful time of the year, but it’s really up to us and what we make of it.
Don’t stress the little stuff. Trust God daily.
As parents, our desire is to provide exposure to the truth of God’s word through every means reasonably possible for our kids.
This past year, I had to admit that in many ways food had become a god to me.
Character is a worthy goal as parents, because once cemented within the heart, it’s hard to lose for a lifetime.
A child’s worldview will often be reflected in direct proportion to a parent’s efforts at intentional discipleship.
Opportunities to invest in your kids don’t usually operate on a convenient timeframe.
The easiest thing for any parent to do is either nothing at all, or, take the least path of resistance.
As you spiritually mature, you realize that the more you learn, the less you know.
My parents intentionally gave us the promise of being together forever, and it was never questioned.
They naturally look for the good in others.
For the majority of parents, their tendency will be permissiveness over harshness.
There’s something powerful about being able to connect face-to-face with someone lonely or hurting.
God has “the way” planned for each of our children, and our job is to train them according to that specific way.
As the world of information gets broader, we must help our children’s sources of truth get narrower.
As Christian parents we take an intentional approach to developing Christlike character in our kids at a young age.
Nothing can help a child of divorce more than them knowing that they have a Heavenly Father who loves them unconditionally.
I’m not the parent I was twenty years ago, and I’m not the parent I hope to be five years from now.
When parents strive to be the real deal, it not only earns their children’s respect at the moment but plants seeds of that respect for a lifetime.
The question we need to answer first is this—have we done what God expects of us?