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4 Ways to Help Your Teen Navigate Being Back at School

Help them minimize screens at night and craft their own best routine for bedtime. Teens thrive on independence and getting to...

4 Ways to Help Your Teen Navigate Being Back at School

5 Lies About Motherhood That Are Not Biblical

Motherhood is a sweet and beautiful calling. What a precious and wonderful gift we are given by the Father to be able to experience just a glimpse...

5 Lies About Motherhood That Are Not Biblical

A Week of Prayers for Your High Schooler

May they know to their core that your love does not change due to any grade or achievement, for it is by grace they have been saved, not the...

A Week of Prayers for Your High Schooler

9 Truths to Cling to if You Feel Like the Worst Mother Ever

Mothers (and fathers) have to make endless decisions for their children. Sometimes, I’ve used good judgment, and sometimes not. Maybe you can...

9 Truths to Cling to if You Feel Like the Worst Mother Ever

10 Benefits and Challenges of Accepting Christ at a Young Age

If you gave your life to Christ as a kid, you might feel like your faith story doesn’t count. But what if that’s actually your greatest strength?

10 Benefits and Challenges of Accepting Christ at a Young Age

A Prayer for Your Daughter to Meet a Godly Husband

The most important decision our child can make, apart from the decision to follow Christ, is who they chose as their spouse...In the not too...

A Prayer for Your Daughter to Meet a Godly Husband

5 Prayers for Those Impacted by School Shootings

Our hearts are breaking over the devastating school shooting that has just happened at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. When we hear of...

5 Prayers for Those Impacted by School Shootings

2 Ways Christian Educators Can Make a Godly Impact in Public Schools

Those we engage within the field of education - students, custodians, and the list goes on - need to encounter the presence of God through the...

2 Ways Christian Educators Can Make a Godly Impact in Public Schools

How to Quit Trying to Be a Perfect Parent

Being an authentic and honest parent goes way further with our kids than trying to be perfect. Here are 4 ways how to be real with your kids.

How to Quit Trying to Be a Perfect Parent

8 of the Biggest Regrets Parents Have

As parents, our top priority is to showcase our faith and teach our children about Jesus and what it means to follow Him. Our goal should be...

8 of the Biggest Regrets Parents Have

5 Truths to Cling to as an Exhausted New Mom

Lean in, sweet sis, feel it all, and then hand it over to a great, Big God who has really big shoulders. Oh honey, if you need a pity party, go on...

5 Truths to Cling to as an Exhausted New Mom

Where Do We See the Gospel in These Popular Sunday School Songs?

It’s a given that the Sunday school teachers will lead the littles in songs because youngsters love to sing and it’s a great way to keep them...

Where Do We See the Gospel in These Popular Sunday School Songs?

What Is a Generational Sin?

As individuals and families, we have committed many generational sins over the years. What is generational sin?

What Is a Generational Sin?

When Should I Give My Child a Phone?

There are very few things in parenting where numerical benchmarks are useful. Instead, we should ask, “What characteristics does my child need to...

When Should I Give My Child a Phone?

What Declining Birth Rates Say about Our View of the Future

Why are we afraid to welcome children into a broken world?

What Declining Birth Rates Say about Our View of the Future