Family Update Archives

Help your kids submit to God's authority in the area of money, and they can live a life of peace within their heart and mind.

How do you teach your kids that people are more important than things? By believing it yourself. By living it.

1. In our house, Christmas is about Jesus. That first. The rest follows. 2. The stuff goes away. Relationships do not.

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

So if you’re looking for a priceless Christmas gift that will be treasured for generations, here are a few tips—from one author to another—to...

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

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

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

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.

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