Family Update Archives

Parenting isn’t a part-time birth-through-high-school occupation. It’s a full-time, life-long assignment given by God. Children are gifts and...

I grew up hearing from pastors and their wives about the type of man I should look for. I naively thought if my husband and I did all we had been...

Last Saturday, a single ticketholder won the Pennsylvania Powerball jackpot valued at 456.7 million dollars, becoming an instant millionaire like...

You can’t make him listen to you. He can’t make you listen to him. We can only put ourselves in an emotional and spiritual space where someone...

Over recent years, social media has been an incredible conduit for viral challenges and fads. Since the famous "Ice-Bucket Challenge", most...

Desperate and having read the latest articles and books about emotional abuse and narcissism, many women feel discouraged and wonder if there...

When you live with your eyes focused on the mission God has called you to—to know Christ and make Him known—you will have learned the key to...

Here are seven foolish things parents say that create poor expectations for both parent and child and cause the very things we are trying to avoid.

One of these apps has been blamed for a rash of teen suicides. Another one has been linked to anonymous death threats. Are your kids using any of...

Do my children and grandchildren see God’s love reflected in my life in the same way? Do they see Jesus in me?

What is the best thing you can do for your husband? Love him. Love him. Love him.

Over time, little offenses become big ones if we don’t learn how to let them go.

Once a mom, always a mom. We may enter motherhood through different avenues, but whether we cradle our bundles of joy the first moment of their...

Suddenly I wished I could turn back the clock and have that man I married see me the way he once did – as the captivating woman he fell in love...

Small disagreements can become big problems if we let them. You have to be diligent to identify key areas, so issues don’t become catastrophic to...