Family Update Archives

Social media can be a powerful communicator of God’s truth, but it can also hurt.

Every morning finds my clunky, awkward journaling bible propped halfway between an armchair and an endtable, coffee spilling with each elbow bump...

Our kids have many wants, but these five are the kind that are never written down, and seldom ever verbalized.

Will God keep me from heaven if I do not have a marriage license?

Most, if not all, parents hope to prepare their child for a smooth transition. After all, our babies are leaving the nest, flying on their own. A...

Its popularity doesn’t mean Fifty Shades Freed is worth your time and money.

Every Christian teaches the next generation of men, since all of us are responsible for building up the body of Christ. So what’s most important in...

Moms today believe they don’t need to seek wisdom from older women because they can find a podcast, blog post, or article on anything they want to...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Jesus was living in this millennium? Would he live on his parent's couch until it was time for him...

No matter how far from God our young people seem to wander, He is present everywhere. We can trust God to work all things for good.

Why do we long for intense, all-consuming love? It is because God designed us to give and receive love.

As you might imagine, a marriage cannot really remain in neutral. A couple cannot coast and not incur damage.

No matter how hard you may work to help your kids experience God’s best for them, there are limits to what you can do. Prayer, though, has no...

From the doctor’s appointments, to the moment we never take to sit down, mothering three or more kids can drag us to the end of sanity as we know...

We all know God hates divorce – mainly because of the pain that ripples out of it. Still it's inevitable.