We mark today as a new beginning. We have left 2023 and are launching into 2024, likely with an abundance of intentions, feelings, and hopefully… hope.
Slowing Down for Advent with Young Children
The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, in our modern world, are a source of delighted excitement, building anxiety, and abject stress for so many families.
Happy Feed, Happy Thanksgiving
I’m the type of person that takes lots of pictures on my phone.
Is the building important?
The older my children get, the more I feel we need to bring the church to them.
Looking ahead to Advent
Now that my kids are in 7th and 9th grades, I’m trying to be realistic about how we will slow down and engage Advent as a family because we have a lot less time in the afternoon and evenings than we did a decade ago.
Hurt People Hurt People: Talking to Children about the Holy Land
How do we, as Christian families, talk to our kids about the carnage and chaos – created by human hands and human hearts – erupting in the Holy Land right now?
Picking Our Battles as Parents
There are times in each one of our lives when we must choose between holding tightly to our convictions or loosen our grip on them.
Holy Gatekeepers
‘Pleeeease? Just this once.’ My mom never fell for it.
The big questions only a four-year-old can ask
But how do we model discipleship when we live so far away?
Do Not Fear
People tend to bridle at the oft-repeated biblical injunction to ‘fear God.’