Let's Parent On Purpose

Has culture conditioned you and your family into looking at the church as just one more commodity to be consumed?

On this Mother’s Day weekend, here are some thoughts on how my childhood, as well as that of my parents, has drastically affected my own parenting.

Davis Price is one of my favorite people in the world, and is graduating high school this year after 7 years in our youth ministry.  In this interview, I ask him about life, understanding adulthood, and the influence that a healthy church has made on his life.

13 Reasons Why is a Netflix series that is sweeping the nation.  Especially if you have children over 10 years old you need to pay attention to some very scary things in this show.

A great question about when to baptize your kids leads to the thought: Are we training our kids for disobedience?

Gratitude is hard work!  Here are 3 ways to make it habitual.

I wrote these thoughts while sitting in my son’s room on Easter Morning in 2014, seven days after he began treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

In every tense situation there are two lessons happening.  1) What you say, 2) How you say it.

Don’t let the immediate worries of life keep you from praying big picture prayers for your children!

Sometimes we shoot ourselves in the foot when we try to control to much in our kid’s lives…

So your kids are ready to start dating? Gulp!  Here are some helpful, practical thoughts to coach them towards right goals and wise boundaries.

Critiques of modern dating practices and coaching tips for your kids as they walk toward helpful relationships!

One of the hardest things to walk through as a parent is the suffering of your child.  How do you make the most of a terrible situation?

Drill Sergents, Helicopters, and Consultants, Oh My! Here’s an overview of three different types of parenting styles with three different consequences.

Here’s the best explanation I’ve ever encountered on why pursuing a path of purity is so important.

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This podcast is on one of the most helpful teachings I’ve ever come across.  How can you be helpful without enabling?

What if we’re complimenting the wrong things in our kids?  Here’s a great way to enable your kids to go over, around, or through the brick walls in their life.

Here’s my best effort at a “simple” definition of Womanhood.  Which is hard because I’m not a woman and I don’t find women to be simple.

Here’s a podcast on a great, simple definition to teach your kids about what it means to be a man.