Child Training/Equipping
50,000 Diapers: Redeeming the mundane
December 01, 2022 12:00 PM
DIAPERS — Love them or hate them, they are, in fact, an inseparable part of parenthood.
I’ve been pondering the world of diapers and diaper changing lately. Maybe it’s because we’ve been blessed with a growing number of grand-babies this past year and anytime we gather as a family it’s always coupled with lots of diapers and much diaper changing! Continue Reading »
Expectations for Tweens and Teens
November 17, 2021 10:00 AM
Raising 8 children was quite a journey for us, to say the least. Sitting in the middle of all our noise and activity, Mary’s grandmother, who lived with us for years, would often laughingly say, “There’s never a dull moment in your home!”. There was a lot of truth in that observation!
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Teaching Your Children Self-control
February 10, 2017 10:02 AM
It’s clear that scripture holds the discipline of self-control in high esteem.
Galatians 5: 22-24 lists it as one of the fruits of the spirit: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law." Continue Reading »
Discipleship: Part 4
January 20, 2017 01:26 PM
Discipleship as it relates to the stages of development
The Rhetoric Stage
In this series, we’ve taken a deeper look at discipleship in regard to the different stages of your child’s development. We have discussed what it looks like in the grammar stage (preschool-young elementary ages) and the logic stage (5th-9th grades). Now we will look at what discipleship looks like in the rhetoric stage (14 - 18+year olds).
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Discipleship: Part 3
January 13, 2017 01:10 PM
Discipleship as it relates to stages of development
The Logic Stage
In our previous posts we discussed what discipleship is, and what it looks like in the early pre-school and elementary years.
Today, we are going to take a deeper look at discipleship in the tween years or the Logic Stage of discipleship (5th - 9th grades). We’ll discuss practical, effective ways you can help disciple your child in this stage. Continue Reading »
Discipleship: Part 2
January 06, 2017 01:03 AM
Discipleship as it relates to stages of development
The “Grammar” Stage
In Parts 2-4 of our discipleship series we will provide practical and helpful ways to equip you in the faithful discipleship of your children.
Having raised and educated our own eight children we have become believers in the trivium model of the classical approach to learning. Continue Reading »
Discipleship: Part 1
December 30, 2016 12:57 PM
Discipleship as it relates to stages of development
Rich and faithful discipleship should be the hallmark of every Christian home. For most parents it is something that is a genuine desire but often elusive and never fully integrated into family life.Continue Reading »
What are the Fundamentals Needs for Parents Today? Part 4: Expectations
September 30, 2016 12:00 AM
Charles Spurgeon, the famous nineteenth-century English preacher, once said, “You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.” Continue Reading »