God Can Use Kids Too
A few things have converged in my son Jack’s life over the past couple months. Back in the spring, he and I began reading Take Your Best Shot by then-nine-year-old author Austin Gutwein. It is the story of a boy who decided he didn’t want to wait until he was all grown up to do something big for God.
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Prayer From a Parent’s Heart
As I sit down to write this article I am reminded of the awesome honour of being a parent. God has granted me the privilege of raising three of His special little ones, but with the privilege comes great responsibility and a lot of hard work. Perhaps more than any other area of life, parenting brings with it the... >Read More
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Almost Christian
We know that the college years can be a time when young people walk away from their faith, but what about the teen years? A recent survey of teens and faith – the National Study of Youth and Religion – has some results that might surprise you.
In a recent article for CNN, Kenda Creasy Dean, a professor at Princeton... >Read More
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Be the Pride of your Children
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"Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it" (Proverbs 22:6, NLT).
Billy Graham embodies a prolific life as an evangelist, speaker and author. God has used him in powerful ways, and... >Read More
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Streetkids: You Can Help
Do you even wonder how kids end up on the street? Are they runaways? Are they disobedient? Did they do something to get kicked out? Do they deserve it?
A friend of mine works with homeless youth in my city. I have to admit that at first I surprised to hear that we have homeless youth. We're not that big... >Read More
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Too Young to be Hot
Nothing makes a teenager seem younger than one trying to act like an adult. They may get the lingo right, but watch them for a few minutes and you realize they’re totally clueless about what they’re doing.
When a 13-year-old girl asks on Facebook, “Do I look sexy in this picture?”, for instance, I think she honestly means, “Do I... >Read More
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Helicopter Parents
I’m not sure who first used the term “helicopter parents,” but it is an apt description of an entire generation of parents who have been intimately, and often intricately, involved in the development of their children. These are the parents who closely hover, and then swoop into their children’s lives to prevent any and all harm or failure....... >Read More
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When you Don't Discipline the Same Way
One of the most difficult parts of marriage is agreeing how to... >more
You Can Make a Difference!
Every day we receive hundreds of emails from people all over the... >more
What Do You Fear?
