Parenting

The words and actions of parents and caregivers are influencing the faith of children at any given moment. 

Should we hold too tightly to our children and their childhood, we may not allow them the freedom they need to grow with life’s changes.

Sometimes, we miss opportunities. Sometimes that's OK. But Easter is no time to keep silent.

Here are 4 ways to grow with emerging adults (in a world that is vastly different from the world in which their parents came of age). 

Here’s how to use family devotional resources to truly build lifelong faith with your kids.

As children near adulthood, a parent's influence on shaping their faith diminishes. Here's how one dad came to that realization and what he did next.

Constant demands placed on individuals and families create what seems like little space for developing faith. We long for expanding a depth of relationship with God—but where do we find the time?

When I first saw Frozen, I didn't quite get it. Why did it resonate with so many people? I actually remember saying I was unsure of the movie because of the “sassiness of some of the characters.” Since then, my perspective has changed. 

How do we know that our children have made the leap from following their parents’ faith to actually “walking in truth” on their own? Kristen Welch would argue for two measuring sticks: gratitude and generosity.

What if God wants us to talk to Him more like my two-year-old talks to me? Maybe He really does want the messy, the mundane, and everything in between. What an incredible thought! 

Without sounding too negative, it has occurred to me more than once that parenting keeps circling back around to the topic of sin management — the parents’ first of all, and then the child’s.

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