Family Update Archives

Christmas, even with all its various challenges for families, presents a wonderful time to build lasting memories and focus on the Savior.

Learn the joy of this special Christmas season, even when parenting alone is hard.

According to the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts, money issues are the third leading cause of divorce. Having a good holiday budgeting...

The holiday season often ushers in feelings of loneliness and disconnection more than joyful belonging. So many of us look around the holiday table...

I worry that 1 Corinthians has been corrupted by an industry that celebrates romance at the expense of Christian love, which is about commitment.

My single years held many Christmases like that one—sweet joys in the midst of silent anguish, bitterness tangled up in beauty.

If you look beneath your busy lifestyle, you’ll discover that it may be covering up something you lack spiritually.

Your daughter needs to know your standards because everyone else is trying to sell her theirs. Take a look at few of the most common battles you’ll...

Because at the heart of it, real love is all about sacrifice. About the giving of yourself, in ways big and small.

It is a dangerous linguistic falsehood birthed from a very practical reality.

A marriage flourishes when both husband and wife love Christ more than any other person in life––including one’s own spouse.

If our teens don’t “buy in” to the rules, the relational approach makes enforcing those rules more difficult.

Traditional wedding vows include noble and Godly commitments. But they also have one glaring omission.

Rest is something we are designed to do. God has both a purpose and a plan for it.

One of the biggest complaints from parents and teenagers alike is that there is often little or no communication between the two groups. Perhaps...