Tag: parenting

What the World Will Not Teach Your Children

**For an audio sermon on this topic preached on November 1, 2015 see the Audio Resources page.

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Kids and Baptism: My Thoughts after Baptizing Our Son!

I often get to talk to parents and kids about baptism.  I try to give the best spiritual counsel and direction to the kids and parents as a I can.  The questions generally center around the child’s readiness to be baptized.  But things are somewhat different when you are the parent, as  I experienced over …

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10 Lessons on Parenting from a Small Family Farm

Adam Faughn, a fellow blogger and preacher, asked me to write a guest post for his site A Legacy of Faith.  He assigned the interesting topic of “10 Lessons on Parenting from a Small Family Farm.” Adam wrote a post for me this past week on “3 Ways To Turn Off Guests at Worship.” Check …

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Distinguishing Between Safe and Killer Mushrooms at Home

I don’t like mushrooms, while my wife loves mushrooms.  To me all mushrooms are bad and avoid my mouth.  But did you know that many mushrooms are poisonous?  A couple of types can even cause certain death.  The death sounded awful and excruciating too!  So not all mushrooms are the same.  If you were to …

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Raising Boys into Men

I give a lot of thought to how to raise my boys.  I am blessed with three sons; currently aged 10,5, and 2.  I am also the tender father to an 8 year old little girl who the boys argue is treated differently than them by dad!  I say she deserves it, because she is much sweeter! …

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An Easy Way to Do Family Devos

We know what it is to have a busy schedule and how it is tough to find time for family devotionals.  We don’t do something everyday, but we try to have a short devotional the majority of nights before the kids go to bed.  We have been using a product that helps us make it …

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Thinking about God while Singing Lullabies to Caleb

For the last year I have put Caleb, our youngest down to sleep each night.  Don’t think I am the greatest dad ever, I probably wouldn’t do this every night if he didn’t do better for me than Amanda.  You see, he likes her more!  This really isn’t up for debate, in fact, he likes …

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Boxtrolls – A New Cartoon with a Homosexual Agenda

The new release PG-rated cartoon Boxtrolls has a clear message, “Families come in all shapes and sizes.”  It is about an orphaned child who is raised by boxtrolls.  It is made by the same production company, Laika, which introduced the first openly gay cartoon character in ParaNorman.  The trailer for the movie is pretty blunt …

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This Is Parenting

After spending last week at a great conference called, “Polishing the Pulpit” in Sevierville, TN we headed to the Smoky Mountains after it ended on Thursday morning.  We had a picnic lunch at a popular spot called Chimney’s.  This is a beautiful picnic area situated on the banks of a beautiful creek.  After eating the kids …

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The Greatest Challenge Facing Families

We were discussing our schedule for the week and the activities with sports, when Amanda said it! She said, “I think youth sports may be the greatest challenge facing families today.”  Some might heartily disagree with this statement. Some might say it is worldliness, apathy, or materialism that is challenging families today.  They would certainly have …

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