Mom's Weekly Archives

As a mother of a fourteen-year-old and a twelve –year-old, my role as their mother is changing. No longer am I the main person to speak into their...

I’ll never forget the day I lost it. I had known something was off. The signs had been there for weeks—the obsessive cleaning, the need for...

May parenting be our reminder of our intense need for the love, grace, and forgiveness of Jesus.

I grew up in a non-Christian home, and attended church with my grandmother. It was there that I learned about who God was and His influence in my...

One negative, self-defeating thought after another, I began to lose the very core of who I was, what made me me. Until one afternoon, I said, “No...

Before I became a mother I did not think it a very difficult job. I grossly underestimated motherhood.

Raising a child is a monumental undertaking. The sheer scope of the task requires more than any one person can provide. The most influential person...

Many would insist that drinking isn’t a sin. But for others, drinking has resulted the neglect of important responsibilities related to motherhood....

We gained wisdom by setting a budget and keeping it when we were young. But it also took us many months, maybe years, until we saw a positive...

God can show us how to parent so that we will raise children who grow up to love the Lord and want to walk with him.

Over the years as a pastor, I’ve talked with people on their deathbeds and have often heard the same thing from parents: If they had it to do all...

God doesn’t call us to be God to our kids. He calls us to be faithful.

The title of Dr. Kevin Leman’s newest book, When Your Kid is Hurting: Helping Your Child through the Tough Days, admits right away that hurt in...

Before teens can actually explain the gospel, they must first know it themselves.

The curiosity of children and the questions they ask also can make us stop in our tracks with disbelief, shed a tear in sorrow, or hide our faces...