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8 Biblical Ways to Comfort Your Kids When Their Hearts are Hurting

We can comfort our kids with words and actions, encouraging them to fix their eyes on Jesus, who endured pain of every kind “for the joy set before...

8 Biblical Ways to Comfort Your Kids When Their Hearts are Hurting

10 Things Your Adult Children Wish You Would See in Them

Even when our kids are grown, they still need us to notice them. Here are 10 things your adult children hope you will see in them. Your son or...

10 Things Your Adult Children Wish You Would See in Them

4 Lessons to Help You Teach the Realities of Spiritual Warfare to Kids

We must be honest with our children and teach them that the devil and his demons are in fact a reality. Teaching your children these lessons and...

4 Lessons to Help You Teach the Realities of Spiritual Warfare to Kids

10 Days of Praying Scripture for Your Child

Here are 10 Verses to pray over your kids as they return to school this fall.

10 Days of Praying Scripture for Your Child

3 Ways to Be a Safe Space for Your Children to Run To

There is a difference between agreeing to hear your children out and granting their every wish like some parental genie. Teaching your kids that...

3 Ways to Be a Safe Space for Your Children to Run To

10 Rules of Deep Rest for the Busy Parents

Rest is rare, especially during the early years of parenting. But it’s so instrumental to our sanity and our ability to keep showing up for the...

10 Rules of Deep Rest for the Busy Parents

Praying the Armor of God over Students Going Back to School

Our battles are not physical but spiritual. To be strong in God we must pray for protection from head to feet with His divine armor. As our...

Praying the Armor of God over Students Going Back to School

Why to Have Heart Checks with Your Children

We don’t have to create a weekend getaway with individual children to gauge their whereabouts on obedience. We just have to pay attention....

Why to Have Heart Checks with Your Children

3 Compelling Reasons to Share Our Feelings with Our Kids

It’s easy to believe that in order to raise emotionally “stable” kids, we have to keep our feelings under wraps. But it’s okay to let it show. It’s...

3 Compelling Reasons to Share Our Feelings with Our Kids

11 Ways Families Can Adopt a Grateful Heart

Just like other emotions, gratitude is an emotion we must cultivate. The more we practice each of these suggestions, the more we'll see our hearts...

11 Ways Families Can Adopt a Grateful Heart

Teaching Our Kids How to Worship, Not Memorize

It all comes back to the heart. It’s easy to measure how much someone knows. We can check off a Bible reading plan or have our kids recite the...

Teaching Our Kids How to Worship, Not Memorize

5 Ways to Help Your Daughter Navigate Mean Girls

Ground them in their identity. By this, I mean nothing will be more important than for your daughter to understand their intrinsic value, not just...

5 Ways to Help Your Daughter Navigate Mean Girls

4 Detrimental Things Parents Say to Their Children - and What to Say Instead

Are our words building up our children? Are they providing the grace that they need and soothing their hearts, rather than accusing them? Careless,...

4 Detrimental Things Parents Say to Their Children - and What to Say Instead

7 Ways to Teach Your Kids Perseverance

We live in a quick-fix culture. Embracing tough goals and pursuing solutions to hard-to-fix problems is not something we are accustomed to doing....

7 Ways to Teach Your Kids Perseverance

10 Prayers of Protection for Children Returning to School

It is difficult to release our children in a “normal” school year, add a global pandemic, political crisis, racial tensions, and general division,...

10 Prayers of Protection for Children Returning to School