Equipping Parents for The Journey
In part two of our Parenting Pathway Podcast series on mentoring, Pastors Dave Carl and Steve Fischer talk about what it looks like to be a mentor and a mentee. We at Stonebriar strongly believe that spiritual growth is best achieved through the guidance and encouragement of fellow believers. The intimacy that develops in...
The more time we spend with kids and their parents, the more we have become convinced that all of our kids are desperate for mentors in their lives. The ability for our kids talk to someone they trust and that you trust, but is not you, is so important and life-giving to them. You can say...
I was wondering the other day if Mother’s Day is a conspiracy to lull us moms into trudging through May with a smile on our face. I do not know about you, but May seems to be as busy as December but with fewer decorations and a lot less fanfare. Between preschool graduations, high...
"I have a big jealousy problem in my marriage. It's not quite what you think it is, though. There are no fits of rage, no yelling or carrying on with passive-aggressive comments or behavior. It's just that there are these other smaller human beings that live in my home . . ." This week...
As Christians, service is in our DNA. We are instructed to love God with our whole heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves, which often happens through serving one another. In a consumer culture like ours, how can we as parents teach our kids to have servant hearts? This week on the blog,...
In the waning days of COVID, families are facing the pull of their pre-pandemic life and the tug of all they have learned about themselves, their family, and God's place in it in the last year. I was thinking this was going to be an easy transition. But if you are like me, the...
This week on our Parenting Pathway Podcast, Pastors Dave Carl and Nathan Kocurek are stepping into the topic of failure in our kids’ lives. The very nature of children growing is a process of failing and learning from it. Whether they are a toddler learning to walk or a teen learning to drive, each...
“SHOTGUN!!!” When you hear that, do you cringe waiting for the battle over who said it first, who rode shotgun last time, and whose turn it should be this time? If you are raising more than one child, I am sure you have had to step into more than one sibling battle and navigate...
One of the most important jobs we parents do is leading the spiritual training of our children. How can we balance the sacred and secular when it comes to holidays like Easter? I really do believe that Easter baskets, gifts, and bunnies can be celebrated alongside the cross and the resurrection of Christ. Our...
As a parent raising boys in today’s America we struggle with helping them find their way to manhood and be the leaders and spiritual influences that God has called him to be. Dr. Ron Archer—pastor, speaker, and author join Pastors Dave Carl and Nathan Kocurek to talk about his new book The Power of...
This week we have a special guest writer, Nicolette Hutcherson, one of Stonebriar Community Church's missionaries in Beirut, Lebanon, which was devastated by an explosion several months ago. Nicolette and her husband, Caleb, serve the Lord in Lebanon with WorldVenture. While most of us are not raising our children in a "dangerous part of...
The two biggest events on the Christian calendar are Christmas and Easter. It is troubling that we put so little emphasis on Easter. While we are busy months in advance planning for Christmas, Easter seems to creep up on us with very little planning and focus. But Easter should be a BIG deal! This...
