Parenting
Parenting Points
4 Tips to Leading Your Child toward Good Decision Making Good decision making is not a skill with which we are born. We can look back at examples from our past when we made very poor decisions that were not properly thought out and the unfortunate consequences that accompanied those decisions. There are two very …
Bringing Out the Winner In Your Child
Cultivating Common Sense Recently, a young man from the Boys’ Ranch helped me with a couple of projects in our yard. As we were working in the garage, we passed by a stack of manuals that were sitting on my workbench. He asked, “What are those?” Piled about six inches high were manuals, parts lists …
The Joys & Financial Challenges of Parenthood
As our children travel the long and never-dull road from infancy to adulthood, we nurture them, worry about them, scold them, and love them. Most of all, we try to protect them. We want them to grow up in a stable world, one in which they are physically safe, emotionally nurtured, and financially secure. Still, …
Why Christmas Needs Advent
Some of the common ways people describe the Christmas season are: Busy, Hectic, Stressful, even Chaotic. We hustle through the season shopping for gifts, looking for deals, going from one Christmas party to the next, not to mention the family dinners and get-togethers. Before we know it, New Year’s Day has come and gone and we …
Experience God’s Provision: Watch Him Work!
There is a phrase I heard a few weeks ago that resonated within my heart: “Provision Follows Obedience.” To be honest, I don’t remember who said it or where the words originated, but the phrase itself has stuck with me. Take a moment, and let those three words sink into your heart and mind. Provision…Follows…Obedience. If …
Praise to the Father
A thankful heart can be the antidote to a multitude of sinful behaviors and attitudes.A truly thankful heart offersthanks to God for all of his good gifts.But a thankful heart does not merely thank God for the good things we have, but thanks God for God. Psalm 100 teaches us by example what thanksgiving sounds like. What is interesting is …
