Ephesians 6:4, “Fathers,[b] do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” I’ve been doing a lot of research and study of the fatherhood crisis in America. One thing I’ve discovered is that, more than anything else, and no matter the kind of father you are, there..
Most parents who value Christian faith want their children to enjoy a vibrant, growing relationship with God, both now and throughout their lives. But few of those parents ever attach this hope to an ongoing plan; therefore, they fail to lay a reliable spiritual track in front of the fast-moving train of family life. This..
“The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age; they will stay fresh and green, proclaiming, “The Lord is upright; he is my Rock,..
I couldn’t believe what I was in the middle of. I hadn’t even been on staff long enough to go through formal training yet. I was twenty-one years old, three months on the job, thrust into a situation that now required me to interact with people in senior leadership positions, with the presidents of huge..
An eight-year-old girl was getting some outdoor pictures made among the fall colors in a Nashville park one Sunday afternoon, when a lone jogger emerged from one of the running trails that snaked alongside. The runner, a young woman dressed in navy blue sweats and a zip-up jacket, slowed to a gentle stop, fumbled her..
Oftentimes when we start thinking about stepping up into this place of spiritual leadership, taking responsibility for the vision and direction of our home, the priority shift we feel called to make is to finally start putting our family first. My wife, we say—I haven’t been loving her well, or listening to her well, or..
If vision establishes the destination you want to reach, and if mission defines the path that takes you there, goals are the milestones that measure your progress. They don’t make you more saved or less saved. They don’t give your family more status or less status. They just help keep you motivated and determined to become everything you can possibly be for Him—and able to celebrate and worship Him..
Why do you think God, in Isaiah 6, gave His reluctant prophet a vision of Himself “sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up,” where the train of His robe “filled the temple”? Why did God reveal to him angels with six wings, worshiping at such high volume that the doorposts of the throne room..
Values help you steer you business culture but also the spiritual, relational, and missional direction of your family, while also giving your spouse and kids a GPS for keeping their personal lives on target, helping them stay balanced and aligned along a consistent standard. Values form the nonnegotiable foundation underneath your family that determines who..
Victorious Families realize they need to be intentional in raising their children. Like a lot of parents in that active, high-energy phase of life, their marriage had been slowly taking a back seat to the exhausting, child-centered challenges of each day’s little dramas. Not as though they ever really sat down and discussed their marriage..
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