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Your kids need you to help them make faith their own and live it out fully. God wants your kids to move beyond believing to putting their faith in action. Here's how you can help your kids put faith into action...

[M]en are an endangered species. I really believe that. Over the past 15 years, I have been working directly and indirectly with college students. Almost 10 years ago I noticed a trend that -- at the time -- was alarming. That alarm has now been going off non-top since, and I'm finally seeing it come to fruition.

While it can be unnerving to watch your little girl grow up in America’s sexual culture, take heart and remember: you have the advantage.

I don't mind putting in the effort with my kids … as long as I see the results. Today.

My parents made plenty of mistakes. Yours did too. As a dad now with 4 kids, I've finally arrived at that place where I am more cognizant of the mistakes I am making. Wouldn't it be nice if -- like the idea of the "easy button" -- we could just hit a button to erase all the mistakes we've made? Unfortunately, we can't.

Whether angry at the world, angry at America, or just a psychopath, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner struck out with homicidal anger this past weekend in Tucson. It has become an all too common scene; younger individuals expressing anger by snuffing out the lives of others in public places.

Even though I don’t want it, and even though I may fight it emotionally and deep down and with my friends, I will walk through intentional acts of letting go with my kids.

God really does use all things for good. He even used the tragedy of an abortion to stir up a family to extend His grace to a broken, desperate girl.

So the New York Times runs a piece about gender-free toys. Ho-hum. Until you realize what’s behind the effort.

My 5 year old son cried last week in bed because he was lonely. And I cried with him because I knew exactly what he was feeling...

Jackie met someone at work and claimed to be in love. "I thought a lot about it and even prayed. I'm moving in with Tom," she insisted. The Smiths are heartbroken. What happened?

Laying in the tent during another in our long line of horrible weather Boundary Waters canoe trips, I was angry...

More and more people seem to keep asking me about our story of fostering. I remember being on the other side, wondering how tough it would be to get certified, or what it would be like to welcome a stranger into our home.

Kids today certainly know they’re here because their parents chose not to abort them. This reality doesn't give all kids a warm, cozy feeling...

Adoption was never plan B for God. It wasn't an alternative solution. It was plan A.

It’s a subtle change when a wife goes from enfolding her man in a warm hug the very instant he walks in the door to instead hiding in the bathroom trying to quickly give her hair a brushing and apply some lipstick.

The other night I was tucking my kids into bed. I noticed my oldest had a glowing silly band on his wrist. Knowing that he would play with the bands and not fall asleep, I asked him for them. This is a normal nightly ritual for us. Once I asked for it, though, he saw his opportunity. You see, only one of his silly bands was glowing, and the others weren't. In that moment he took the chance and told me the glowing one was the only one he had on. I

While it’s unrealistic to expect that you can organize your entire home immediately, it’s definitely possible for you to get your entire home in order one area at a time.

When moms like me are dropping everything to commit to a whole football game, you know there’s something supernatural going on.

There is a huge difference in Biblical parenting principles and Biblical parenting methods.