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40 Simple Bible Statements To Teach Your Kids
Here are 40 simple Bible statements/principles to teach your kids. You might find these worthy of putting on your fridge, using as a springboard for devotional ideas, or even committing to memory. Whatever you choose to do with them, they are great foundational...

How & Why To Talk To Your Kids About Gender Identity
Whether we like it or not, as parents we’ve been thrust into a situation by recent events that require us to have a much-needed conversation with our kids about gender identity. But while America is struggling to know its identity, your family doesn’t have to. [ctt...

It’s Not a Perfect Life, But It’s a Wonderful Life
As I write this, it’s 6:30 in the morning, and I’m sitting at my kitchen table looking at the beautiful sunrise out the back sliding-door window of our home. As the sun rises in from the east, it brings in just enough natural brightness that I don’t have to turn on...

Radical Parenting In A Permissive World
If we listen to the society around us, we'd be led to believe that the way we were raised as kids is no longer culturally acceptable or the norm. Parents need to be less strict, more permissive, and allow their children to have more freedom than in previous...

Should Parents Talk To Their Kids About The Rapture?
Here’s an important topic that your kids need to be educated about (preferably, by you) - the Rapture. I Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. We believe that at any moment of any day, Jesus Christ...

7 Practical Keys To Balancing Family, Work & Ministry
Last week, we started answering ‘The Big Question’... How in the world do I balance it all? You can read last week's article by clicking here. Whether you serve as full-time staff, a bi-vocational pastor, or a ministry volunteer, this article will help you get off...

The Big Question… How In The World Do I Balance It All?
BALANCE... we all want it. We all need it. Yet it's a bit harder of a thing to find than it is a word to say. In my annual Reader Survey, I found that over half of the readers on my blog are either paid staff or leaders in some capacity in their church or...

The INTENTIONAL Family Game Plan
I'm sure you know that family life can get really crazy, really fast! And before you know it, we're failing to make sure that some of the most important things in life are happening in our own home. But what if there was a strategic and structured game plan already...

5 Essentials To Becoming A Star Staff Member
If you serve in a staff position or as a leader in ministry at your church, one of the most important relationships you have is the one with your pastor. In an effort to make that relationship the best that it can be and yourself the best that you can be, here are 5...

Keep My Preschooler Seated In Church? You Want Me To Do What!?
II Timothy 3:15 "And that from a child though hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation…" As of last year, my wife and I no longer have any children in preschool. But over the course of the years in raising our four kids, we...