Here are some important app for parents to be aware of. We MUST be spending time with our kids and being the primary influence in their lives or these kinds of things will overtake them.
Family Discipleship
The Fine Art of Child Juggling: 5 Ways to Make Sure You Don’t Drop Any Kids
Juggling is hard, and the balance of each ball is a regularly changing balancing act, but you won’t regret the effort or amazing relationships with your kids you will have as a result.
The Happy T-Shirt Accident – A Perfect Expression of Grace
The other day, Josiah and I were not seeing eye to eye. He was on a complaining and whining rampage. Nothing was good enough in his world and any kind of formal activity made him angry. He wanted to stay home and play video games and nothing was going to convince him otherwise. I was patient and gave him lots of space, but after 2 hours of complaining, banging walls…
Abundant Life and Fearless in Friendship
I was listening to a friend share the other day and he said something that caught my attention. He mentioned that he wasn’t born into a Christian family but his mom had found Jesus when he was in High School. He mentioned that she took her faith seriously but that she never tried to force her faith on him, instead he remembers feeling like she wanted to introduce him to…
Dating Your Daughter: What Do I Talk About With Her on Our Dates?
Here are my thoughts on the impact that dating our daughters can have: Why Dads Should Date Their Daughters http://wp.me/p2cwKS-d8
Does My Child Really Want Jesus or Are They Just Telling Me What I Want to Hear?
This is my first Video Blog post. I was asked this question last week and thought it was a really good one and might be worth sharing. “What do I do if my child says they want to follow Jesus but I’m sure they are just telling me what I want to hear?”
4 Ways to Swing Your Kids Towards Jesus
Have you ever seen those pictures with kids swinging? Not the ones where they are on an actual swing, the ones where they are holding their parents’ hands and being swung in a circle. The look of pure joy on their face is incomparable. The smile is without reservation and joy exudes from every pore of their body. I love those pictures. They make me smile and bring happiness to…
Podcast: The Challenge and “How To’s” of Digital Protection for Your Kids.
Dave McVety and Dave Currie discuss the Challenge and “How To’s” of digital protection for your kids. To challenge parents in the need of setting up carful software protection on all electronic devices giving practical step-by-step help in setting up the safeguards to protect from dangerous sites and negative influence. Click here for my 3 layered approach to digital protection in your home. And here for a list of the…
3 Ways to Prevent Bullying and Faceless Courage in Your Children
Bullying has taken on a whole new life with today’s kids. It’s a whole new monster. Having been a youth pastor between the years of 2001 and 2010 I feel like I can say that I saw the birth and early stages of the “cyber-bullying” scene. It seemed like things changed overnight, what used to be done with secret note passing was now done over email and MSN, things that…
The Power of a Name: What Have You Named Your Children?
My wife and I spent a lot of time figuring out what names we would give our kids. As much as there is something to be said for simply liking a name, there was something deep in both Melissa and myself that drew us to the meaning of the names we would give our children. There is no question that most of this sense of value for meaning came out…