Family Update Archives

Here are six suggestions to help you and your spouse agree—or move toward agreement—on child-rearing tactics.

It is difficult to know what to say to someone in this most challenging situation. Do we rush in to offer advice, stand back, or ask the individual...

According to a 2008 University of Denver research study, the more fun married couples had together, the happier their marriages became.

It is up to us as parents to shape our child's heart so that God can win that heart one day...

A man sent to counseling, without some element of internal motivation and absent significant input from his mate, will likely end poorly.

As wonderful as summer can be, keeping ourselves sane and our children occupied, happy and safe can be quite a juggling act.

The enemy wants to keep you searching outside of your marriage for gratification and satisfaction. He will use weapons fashioned specifically for...

Christening is known as a form of baptism, common in the Catholic or Anglican Church. Typically baptizing infants and small children, it involves a...

Failure doesn’t have to paralyze our children. It can encourage children to persevere in times of struggle and draw closer to Christ.

When you pray for your husband, you help bring about powerful change in his life, his relationship to God, and his marriage to you.

We will have challenging times as parents, but we are not in this alone. God has given instructions for parenting.

The marriage of our dreams is rarely the marriage of our reality. But a hard season doesn’t equal a hopeless marriage. There is hope.

Complaining does not serve me well, and I’ve come to see that it draws its very power from the root of wrong perspective.

You know your wife better than anyone else. Only you know how to best cultivate and guard the woman God has given you.

Teaching theology to kids is teaching Scripture. The charge to raise children in the knowledge and love of God is clearly given in the Bible (Deut....