Godly Parent
Helping you become the parent your kids deserve

I Became a Better Parent the Day I Realized THIS…
Before becoming a parent, I can remember watching parents of young children and saying things to myself like, “My kids will never act that way” or “I won’t ever let my child get away with that.” Can you relate? In those early years prior to actually becoming a...

5 Reasons Why Your Family Needs to Go Camping Soon
This is a guest post from my friend, Pasquale R. Mingarelli. Pasquale spent 11 years on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ (now called Cru) and currently works as a Christian speaker, adjunct college instructor, and nature photographer. He posts a photo and Bible...

Are You Being Fair to Your Pastor & Your Ministry?
Church staff members have the potential to be a vitally important part of any church, adding value and quality to the ministry. However, they also carry with them the potential to become a weight or burden to a church. Especially if they are not producing and growing...

Is Your Family Sex Positive or Sex Negative?
Sex… it's been around for a while, and I'm guessing it's not going away any time soon. 🙂 (Yes, take a deep breath, and lighten up because we're talking about sex, and it's going to be okay. Really. I promise.) Our sexuality is ingrained within the very fabric of...

Marriage & The Invisible Suitcase
Have you ever found yourself in a stressful situation where the response that spewed out of you was far from desirable? In fact, it even made you wonder, “Where in the world did that just come from?” And it didn’t take long for you to answer your own question, as you...

How to Put a Spiritual Spin on Fidget Spinners
They've taken the kid world by storm in just a matter of a few months... fidget spinners. You can hardly go anywhere without seeing them in kids' hands. When it comes to adults there's very little middle ground - you either like them or you don't. In fact, some...

Bedtime Routines & Why They Matter to Your Kids
Over the years as a family, we’ve found that our children are often influenced by forces from outside of our home sometimes even more than they are by forces from within. This has required us to become more intentional to not only invest into our kids, but also into...

12 Things You Should WANT Your Kids to Catch You Doing Together
I came home for lunch recently and was met with these words from my 13 year old daughter, "I saw that mushy text you sent to mom earlier today”... And it really didn’t bother me that she had seen it. It was actually encouraging. As parents, I'm sure you'd agree...

Getting Honest as Parents – a Free Childhood Observation Analysis
Psalm 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. One of the hardest things to do in our parenting is to be honest... with ourselves. Because it’s so easy to become convinced that the way we are...

Every Parent is Deceived (most just don’t know it yet)
Do you believe that we have a real enemy? I hope that you do. And one of the things that he is most masterful at is the art of deception. He is the great deceiver. He’s done it since that first day in the Garden of Eden, and he continues to do it masterfully even in...