Physical Toughness When I was playing college baseball, I remember a particularly hot day at practice when our coach kept making the team run lap after lap after lap around the ballfield. Every time we stopped at home plate after … Continue reading Spiritual Toughness
If you need toilet paper, paper towels or a medical mask, now is not the time to go shopping is it? And seriously……… who bought the last box of Macaroni and Cheese from Wal-Mart? How rude! As of this morning … Continue reading stayin alive, stayin alive…. Coronavirus and Kids
Are your children thankful? Of course, they aren’t always thankful, but as a general rule are they? We live in a culture today where many think they are entitled. Many feel that they deserve special treatment or privilege and are … Continue reading Thankful Children
I don’t get it October 31st! A day filled with cool weather, candy and little goblins, ghosts and devil’s running through the neighborhoods! The street that I live on has already been decorated with gravestones, witches, dead people (mannequins of … Continue reading Halloween: I don’t get it
Praying together as a family is a way to submit to God’s rule over your home. It should be natural for us to take time during our day and, together with our children, approach Christ’s throne of grace. One practice … Continue reading Worship Through Prayer: The Manna Box
Being a Family on Mission Do you have a plan for getting your children involved in missions? When we think of missions, Matthew 28:19-20 typically comes to mind. This is the classic passage where Jesus commissions the disciples after his … Continue reading Be a Family on Mission
Have you ever heard the saying, “seeing is believing?” This is a proverb and means, “you need to see something before you can accept that it really exists or occurs.” Sometimes we have to be shown our sin by others … Continue reading Helping your Children See Their Sin: For Families to Read Together
The Greatest Commandment In the gospel of Matthew a lawyer came to Jesus and asked Him, what the greatest commandment was. Jesus answered him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, … Continue reading Confession to God
