Equipping Parents for The Journey
No one ever said sinning wasn’t fun, for a while. That’s the trap! The bait looks good, but when you bite it, the good feelings are sooner or later replaced by disastrous consequences. People don’t make bad choices because it feels terrible. Let’s be honest, the pleasure of being bad is real, and that’s...
What does social isolation in our teens look like? Our kids are always on their phones, they go to school, they go to church, so they are around people all the time. But are they really connecting with other teens? Social isolation is the lack of social contacts and having few people to interact...
I was thinking this morning about the concept of grace. Grace as in being generous or helpful, offering goodwill toward others, granting forgiveness without being asked, or giving allowance and room not to be perfect. How often do we find ourselves giving grace to others, but not allowing ourselves the same? This week, I...
Marriage is a tricky topic to discuss. Most of us would not be willing to hold up our marriage as an example for others to follow. After all, we know what goes on in our own homes. But in 2013, Tony and Lauren Dungy published a book that changed the way I approach my...
I’m already missing summer freedom. I just filled out our family calendar, and between school and extra curriculars, I’m missing the flexibility around dinner. Family dinner together is important to us, and it’s easier during the summer. But we still love it in every season, so I thought I’d share why and how we...
As we continue our Drop Off Season discussion and enter all things back-to-school, we want to challenge you and your family to 31 Days of Prayer for Our Children. In our new 31-day prayer calendar and journal, we took 31 Scripture passages and created specific prayer prompts for you to pray over your children. These...
This is drop off season—the season of life transitions where we drop off our kids at new schools, new classrooms, new co-ops, new study groups, new cities, and new experiences. All this newness raises the level of anxiety for both kids and parents. Since the focus is often on the separation anxiety your child experiences...
Here in North Texas, we are on our 100th day of temperatures over 100 degrees. Maybe that’s an exaggeration but not by much. Everything is hot. Let’s face it, we are quarantining from the sun and the summer heat. When this happens, even the siblings who are the best of friends start to get...
In the media today, conservative values and patriotism go hand in hand. But do they? Much like we must teach our children to love God and to know that He loves them, we also must teach them about patriotism. This week we asked one of our Parenting Pathway dads to share his legacy of...
At some point in the last couple of years, many of us gave up on monitoring and restricting screen time. When everything feels so out of control around you, this seems like an easy one not to battle. Now, your parent radar might be going off, reminding you to look up and take stock of...
As we approach Father's Day, Family Ministries Pastor Dave Carl challenges our view of the World's Best Dad and asks you to consider being "a Pretty Good Dad" instead. “If you were to come across The Best Father in the World, would you be able to identify him in the wild? I have never...
“What do my daughters need from me?” and “What can they learn from me?” are two questions Pastor David Ake has asked himself in his path to raising two amazing, smart, and beautiful daughters. Though he cannot lay claim to all the ideas presented here, as he has been encouraged by multiple (and sometimes contrasting)...
