Children like Amondo need your help… “My family attend church once or twice a year. I never heard the good news of the gospel message from my parents,” Amondo shares. “When I asked them to make faith and church a part of our home life, I was told by my parents they were too busy..
As my wife and children and I began to implement our family spiritual-growth plan, we knew that we also wanted part of it to be outward-focused. We decided to begin with a focus on prayer for one extended family member at a time, praying for God’s leading in that person’s life. Praying with that specificity..
The action word in the above topic is “charting”. To chart is a deliberate, conscious, and repetitive act to intentionally arrive at a destination well planned. Charting a family’s spiritual journey has specific goals of achieving a desired result or outcome as well. In this context, the desired result is to have children that not..
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..
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