Whether you are planning to do virtual schooling through your school district or step out and try another approach, we know there are many questions and thoughts running around in your head. Recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with two friends, Amy Parsley and Kristin Hightower, who have been doing homeschool...
Planning a Slower Summer
Summer 2020 looks very different from any summer we have previously experienced. Even if you can still navigate that getaway to the mountain or the beach, it will just be different. But rather than being discontent about the difference, maybe we can embrace it. Guest author and mom of two very busy children, Sheena...
To All The Dads
In an open letter to dads from Pastor Dave Carl, he wants to say Congratulations! If you are a dad by adoption, by foster care, by unofficial adoption, or by procreating, welcome! You have now become a superhero. You don’t get to refuse or shy away. It is not optional—you simply have taken on...
Fatherhood and Pandemics
We asked Charlton Hiott, our Senior Associate Pastor here at Stonebriar, to share with our parenting community this Father's Day. In his honesty of his condition, he shared that parenting and pandemics have much in common. In both, control is an illusion. God is in control. In fact, God uses both circumstances to wrest...
The Trouble with Grace
What does "grace" mean? What difference would it make if I drank deeply from it and lived in the joy and freedom God has offered us? It would change everything, absolutely everything. A misunderstanding of grace can keep you from the very relationship with God you were created to enjoy. In this podcast episode,...
Raising Digital Natives
In our recent Straight Talk: Raising Digital Natives, we shared insights and recommendations to help you step into your iGeneration’s digital universe and parent in a world so different from the one you grew up in. Who is an iGeneration or Digital Native? The iGeneration was born after the year 2000 and is the...