Godly Parent
Helping you become the parent your kids deserve

4 Areas You and Your Wife Need to Be on the Same Page
Every marriage has understood rules that are followed that can either make or break a relationship. In looking back on the past 15 years of our marriage, there are some simple things we’ve done that I think can be credited to our marital success. These are things...

5 Things Your Wife Needs Most
When my wife and I first got married, I was convinced that I knew how to be a great husband. However, it didn’t take long to see that I still had a lot to learn about caring for this beautiful lady I had chosen to be my wife. Now that we’ve been married for over 15...

How to Love Your Family the Way God Loves You
I John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. “God is Love”… That’s a very bold statement for the Bible to make. To state that God...

5 Ways You’re Hurting Your Family (And you don’t even know it)
Have you ever had to be confronted with something you were doing wrong, that you didn’t even know you were doing wrong? We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Here are a few common mistakes that couples often make in parenting that they may not even realize they are...

3 Reasons It’s Time to Have a Family Meeting
If you want to have a long lasting and smooth running vehicle, every few months you need to take the time to get your oil changed. In addition, every now and then, you may even need to get get an alignment or other routine maintenance done. Why do we do those things?...

Why I Recently Had to Apologize to My 14-Year-Old Son
Have you ever had one of those moments in your marriage where a fuse burns out, and you’re left with an unexpected situation on your hands of two people who just simply don’t see eye to eye? Thankfully, this kind of occurrence is rare in our marriage, but nonetheless,...

How My 12 Year Old Daughter Reminded Me to Never Give Up
While our 12 year old daughter has many strengths, one of them is not the subject of math. And it doesn’t help that both her younger and older brother can do math like a wiz with no problem at all. This has been a real struggle for her, that sometimes seems...

12 Questions I Ask My Kids Every Year
My wife and I recently sat down with each of our children and asked them to finish this sentence... "You feel most loved by me when _________________________." Here were their responses (in their own words): I feel most loved by you when... You notice when I do...

8 Reasons Your Kids are Misbehaving
Every parent deals with bad behavior from their kids from time to time. I can remember a time in particular when one of our boys seemed to be repeatedly pushing his siblings and hitting them with whatever he happened to have in his hand at the moment. What we came to...

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL – 6 for the price of 1
Yes, we're crazy!... And we'll probably never do this again, but between now and Monday, you can snag 6 of our VBS curriculum bundles for the price of just 1! Because we know that many of you serve in the local children's ministry of your church, we are making a...