Godly Parent
Helping you become the parent your kids deserve

3 Ways to Win the Heart of Your Spouse
Thriving families are usually the product of thriving couples. And as weird as it may sound, one of the best ways for you to bless your children is to focus on improving your relationship with your spouse. Because the closer you grow as a couple, the more your...

How to Develop Core Family Values (and why it matters)
Godly families don’t happen by accident. Godly families are built by godly parents - parents (and especially godly men) who are willing to do the hard work and pursue the sometimes painful process it takes to see their God-given family vision accomplished. I...

How to Celebrate Christ on Christmas Morning
Christmas… if you stop to think about it, the word itself brings back a host of memories from your childhood. From the sights to the sounds to the smells of Christmas, it doesn’t take long for our mind to drift off to another time and another place. As parents, we...

Passing Down the True Spirit of Christmas to Your Kids this Season
Come this time of the year, there’s always a lot of talk about the "true spirit of Christmas” that everyone needs to have. But before we can actually have it, I think that this statement begs that we truly answer the question, “What is the true spirit of Christmas?”...

Will Your Great-Grandchildren Know You?
Imagine with me for just a moment, it’s Christmas day, and the presents are all neatly wrapped under the tree. When it comes to your turn to receive a gift, you are handed a small, book-shaped box that feels about as light as a feather. You’re pretty sure that...

The Power of Self-Awareness & Why Some People Will Never Change
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to identify other people’s problems, yet how hard it is to accept when other people point out yours? It’s true because due to our sin nature, every person is 'broken' in some way, shape, or form. There are people that you can...

Teaching Our Children How to Respond to Tragedy
A 24-year-old Indiana girl’s life is changed forever in the blink of an eye as she looks up from texting and driving at 80mph to see 4 children, 3 of them siblings, crossing her path on a highway, as she unknowingly blows through a school bus stop sign. She instantly...

3 Principles for Raising Confident Kids
In a conference I attended recently, I heard this startling statistic about confidence from Dr. Keith Johnson - “From the time a child is 1-4 years old, their confidence is being cemented into place. And this confidence is developed during these years by the...

Letting Go and Letting God
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. Ever since he was young, our oldest son, Spencer has had a strong desire to play professional football for the Green Bay Packers. And as he's gotten older, that desire has only increased...

PG: Parental Guidance REQUIRED
Over the past 4 weeks at our home church, my pastor, Josh Beutow, and I, have preached through a series of messages on parenting called PG: Parental Guidance Required. Here are some of the thought-provoking quotes from this series that I think will challenge you:...