Equipping Parents for The Journey
Some kids are natural born helpers, but for most kids the heart for service is developed over time. In Courtney DeFeo’s book “In This House We Will Giggle”, she defines service as “using our hands, feet and heart to honor God and love others.” Our Early Childhood Ministry Leader, Kristin Langford brings...
In this Parenting Pathway Podcast Part 2, Pastor Dave Carl and Student Ministry Pastor Nathan Kocurek talk about all the losses and disappointments our children are facing in this COVID-19 world. They focus on the steps to helping our children move through their loss experience, recognize the validity of their feelings and embrace their...
Decision fatigue is the deterioration of our ability to make decisions after a long season of decision making. In other words, the more decisions you need to make, the worse you are going to be at weighing all the options and discerning God’s leading in your life. You daily wrestle with balancing working at...
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...
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...
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...
I am going to take a little detour from our normal path of encouragement for your parenting journey and share with you where I am right now. It is my prayer that parts of this story will resonate with you and you will find encouragement in knowing you are not alone. You see, I am...
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,...
May is National Foster Care Month! We want to introduce you to Paula Bohlinger and her family. She and her husband, Tyson, have two beautiful little girls, and three years ago, they opened their home to a big bubbly bundle of joy. Their foster son entered their home when he was only two weeks...
Our family schedules went from busy and over-packed to blank over night. The first few days were great. We retreated to our homes to get some extra rest, baking and watching movies, and it felt almost idyllic. But now a couple months into sheltering in place, school at home, and and activity limitations, the...
How often have you fallen into the mom-comparison trap? Are you judging your own mom cred? Do you look across the street and see the mom of four doing creative art projects with her perfectly clean and dressed children, while you look around and realize it's almost noon and your two kids are still...
How many times have you looked at your son all sweaty and dirty and thought that you had absolutely nothing in common with this creature? This week, Katie Hayes, boy mom to two active and energetic boys, shares with us insights from her own experience learning to connect with her boys. It is never...
