Category: Parents Crosslink
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Family Faith-Building Resource: This One Checks All the Boxes
All week you’ve been reading about tools and resources a father can use to ensure that he is carrying out the privilege of spiritual leadership in his family. Today’s post will enable you to create and maintain a deeper connection between your family and the God who saves you. What father today doesn’t feel the…
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Family Devotions: How to Help Your Family Grow Together in Christ
Looking for a way your family can grow in faith but aren’t sure how to get started? Our Father’s Day blog series has you covered. Each post of this series will uncover a valuable resource specifically to help fathers carry out their God-given call to “bring [children] up in the training and instruction of the Lord”…
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Building Good Habits: How to Use the Hymnal for Daily Family Devotions
We continue our special Father’s Day blog series with a look at how dads can start and maintain a family devotional habit. Stay tuned tomorrow as this blog series highlights another resource helpful to all fathers in carrying out their God-given call to “bring [children] up in the training and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians…
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Start Here When Parenting Overwhelms
Effective parenting in today’s world is challenging to say the least. Each day this week, this special blog series will highlight a resource helpful to all dads in carrying out their God-given call to “bring [children] up in the training and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). I’ve never met a new parent yet who…
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Being a Successful Christian Father
Effective parenting in today’s world is challenging to say the least. Hectic and chaotic schedules are stressful—as is the feeling of having to know the answers to the many questions raising children brings. This new series of blog posts addresses the challenges Christian fathers face in fulfilling their call to “bring [children] up in the…
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They’re Going Back
by Lynn Kuske “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” No, I’m not referring to Christmas but, rather, an ad campaign from several years ago, which promoted a national office supply store. In the commercial, Dad is happily tossing school supplies into the shopping cart while his kids look on with less-than-enthusiastic expressions. The…
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The Homework Wrestling Match
Which of the following two scenarios best describes your home? (1) Just as the supper dishes are lifted from the table, books take their place and are arranged by little hands impatient to go to work. Minutes later the only sounds are the faint scratching of pencil lead and a child’s voice tinged with awe…
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Depression: No Laughing Matter
Talk about a conversation killer. “So, I’m working on a new article and the topic’s depression.” The small crowd gathered around the party table seemed suddenly very intent on their meatballs and chicken wings. “No comment,” said one, but still I pressed, knowing several there had struggled with depression in the past. “Really? No comment?”…