Parenting

“Help! I Don’t Know What I’m Doing!” - Three Types of Rules to Help All Parents

How Do We Parent unto Jesus Christ?

How Do We Parent unto Jesus Christ?

We read in the King James version of Matthew 25:40, “And the King shall answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.’” As followers of Christ, we believe that the incentive for serving other people goes beyond meeting that person’s need.

How Do You Respond When You Feel Your Children Provoking You to Anger?

How Do You Respond When You Feel Your Children Provoking You to Anger?

As loving parents, we are to be emotionally unprovoked. This is even the case during conflicts with our kids. According to 1 Corinthians 13:5, love “is not provoked.” Why do I surface this? I have a hunch. Provoked parents end up provoking their kids.

“Help! I Don’t Know What I’m Doing!” - Three Types of Rules to Help All Parents

“Help! I Don’t Know What I’m Doing!” - Three Types of Rules to Help All Parents

Have you as a parent ever heard someone without children say, “I’m not ready to be a parent”? If you have, I predict that outwardly you may have smiled and nodded at them, perhaps saying something like, “Yeah, parenting can be crazy tough”; but inside you were thinking, No one is ever ready to be a parent. You think I know what I’m doing? . . . Wait, where’s my son?

According to Jesus, A Home Is To Be Identified As Wholesome And Worthy If There Is A Man Of Peace There

According to Jesus, A Home Is To Be Identified As Wholesome And Worthy If There Is A Man Of Peace There

When Jesus sent the disciples out two by two, He told them to stay at the home of “a man of peace.” What exactly does that mean? When the disciples came to a home they had never been to before, how were they to know if the man of the house, and his wife, were people of peace? (By implication, there is also a woman of peace to be on the lookout for, since Proverbs 21:19 addresses the sad reality of “a contentious and vexing woman.” Thus, the entire household is in sight here.)

What Can a Husband and Wife with Different Convictions Learn from Romans 14?

What Can a Husband and Wife with Different Convictions Learn from Romans 14?

The first-century church in Rome was made up of both Jews and Gentiles, which caused a few problems between these well-meaning brothers and sisters in Christ. Two differences in particular gave Paul reason to address their situations in drawn-out fashion in Romans 14. First, some had no problems with eating meat from animals that had been offered up as idol sacrifice, while others strenuously objected to such a diet. Second, some felt strongly that the sabbath should still be held in high esteem above all other days, while others had no conviction either way.

According to Jesus, A Home Is To Be Identified As Wholesome And Worthy If There Is A Man Of Peace There

What Can a Husband and Wife with Different Convictions Learn from Romans 14?

Moms, God Wants to G.U.I.D.E. You in Your Parenting

Moms, God Wants to G.U.I.D.E. You in Your Parenting

Moms, do you find comfort knowing that you can look to God to help you in your parenting? How reassuring it is for us that Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as our Helper (John 14:16). I love His description. He is the Helper because we need help. How simple is that? And, it is okay to need help. It is most appropriate to echo the psalmist, "Let Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts” (Psalm 119:173).

In Parenting, Win-Win-Win Is the Goal

In Parenting, Win-Win-Win Is the Goal

Parenting is easy . . . as long as our kids do exactly what we say, when we say it. Though we laugh, there is certainly some truth in this sentiment, isn’t there? When the baby sleeps when we tell her to, when the toddler shares the toy when we ask him to, when the middle schooler turns off the video games and helps set the dinner table when we need him to, and when the teenage daughter loves the conservative clothes we buy for her, we say to ourselves, “This parenting stuff is easy! Why do so many complain?”

Should You Really Apologize to Your Kids? [Video]

Should You Really Apologize to Your Kids? [Video]

I have heard from not a few parents over the years who have admitted the difficulty they have in apologizing to their children. On the one hand, I totally get it. I have three children myself.

Your Children May Be More Ready for the Love and Respect Message Than You Think

Your Children May Be More Ready for the Love and Respect Message Than You Think

Who is the Love and Respect message for? In a vacuum, I suppose it would be easy to say that the Love & Respect book, the Love & Respect Marriage Conference, and even the scripture it’s all based on—Ephesians 5:33—are intended for married couples. And this would not necessarily be wrong. For the above passage does read, after all, “Each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”