Family Update Archives

Ask yourself: "What does my grandchild observe when he looks at me?"

I’ve spent my whole life listening to the story in the Bible where Jesus feeds five thousand people with five small loaves of bread and two fish.

If we want to minister to this generation of young people, and see them grow in the Lord, we must build meaningful relationships with them. There...

Mary continues to inspires women to be a mothers of faith, mothers of patience and mothers of prayer.

Training children to pick up after themselves teaches them important life lessons that will help them their whole lives.

'Snowplow' parents likely started off in the helicopter. Then, they hovered, eventually landing and proceeding to clear everything out...

Young people especially need to learn how to make authentic connections, and the only way to do that is by interacting with those around them. ...

Mother’s Day is the queen of the type of holiday that makes us crazy, because we’ve created an image of the perfect holiday, and somehow convinced...

We yearn to have children and commit to parenting them to become more than just good kids. We invest our time to help them become contributing...

As a grandparent, you play an important role in your grandchildren’s lives – so important, in fact, that your influence on them has eternal...

Is it any surprise they would be affected by the cynicism they hear every day? Yet we know God wants us to have hope.

In Jennifer Alba's story about the death of her son Joseph, we are called into the light of truth: that the threat of opioids killing someone you...

Nowhere in the Bible does God promise His followers a smooth parenting adventure. In it He does, however, give us wonderful keys to success that we...

It’s an amazing feeling - waking up on Easter Sunday to be greeted with a renewed sense of God’s amazing, unfailing love for us.

Churches are full of imperfect people who don’t always say or do the right thing. Unfortunately, the lessons our children sometimes learn aren’t...