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Genes on a Razor's Edge
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David Dobbs
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Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming sp...
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Raising Special Needs Children & Stress
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Gillian Marchenko
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- Disability
In her compelling memoir Still Life , author Gillian Marchenko recounts her struggles with depression. In this excerpt, Marchenko shares the challenge of raising special-needs children: My friend...
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Giving a Glimpse of God
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Bob Goff
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If you’ve ever run a business or led a team of people, you know what it’s like to send someone in your place. You know they’re going to interact with a person who might not know you, and that person w...
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Taking Inventory
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Rebekah Lyons
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Parker Palmer’s book Let Your Life Speak arrested my heart a few years back. It begins with a poem by William Stafford, “Ask Me”, that begs this question: “Some time when the river is ice ask me mista...
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Spare: Privilege and Pain
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Colleen Strachan
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- Culture
- Entitlement
What do the royals and a Rorschach test have in common? Both provoke reactions that tell us more about the attitudes and beliefs of the beholder than about the object of their gaze. This is not to say...
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Eating Together as a Family
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Terry A. Smith
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Revelation 3:20, 1 Corinthians 10:16, Proverbs 15:17, Isaiah 25:6, Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Acts 2:46, Psalm 128:3
We become who we are in the environment of home. We are shaped by our families. Home is formative. Sociologist Cody C. Delistraty explored the most recent scientific literature for Atlantic Monthly an...
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The Importance of Family Dinners
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Terry A. Smith
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We become who we are in the environment of home. We are shaped by our families. Home is formative. Sociologist Cody C. Delistraty explored the most recent scientific literature for Atlantic Monthly an...
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Andreas Kostenberger
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We learn from Jesus that we should not look down on children because they are not fully grown and hence are of lower social status than adults. Like Jesus, we should treat children with respect and di...
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Mother's Day Sermon Ideas: Four Verses That Find Motherhood in the Heart of God
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Ryan Bundrick
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Mother’s Day is complicated for a pastor. Among the happy families that are celebrating, there are children who were abused by mothers, mothers who lost lost a child, and women suffering from inferti...
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Prayer for Young Persons
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God our Father, you see your children growing up in an unsteady and confusing world: Show them that your ways give more life than the ways of the world, and that following you is better than chasing a...
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Prayer for Families
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Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who who creates families for our belonging: We ask for your continual care for the homes in which your people live. Keep them from all bitterness, arrogance, and the...
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Josiah G. Holland
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In the homes of America [or any other nation] are born the children of America, and from them go out into American life American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them, and...
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Chuck Swindoll
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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Caring For Them is What We’re on this Earth For
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Thomas G. Long
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Isaiah 1:17, Colossians 3:12, Romans 12:10, Proverbs 31:8-9, Galatians 6:2, Matthew 25:40, James 1:27
In this beautiful illustration from Tom Long’s well-known preaching guide, The Witness of Preaching , a pastor shares a true story of what valuing human life can look like when God’s Kingdom takes ro...
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Every Part has a Place
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Brian Dembowczyk
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1 Corinthians 12:18-27, Ephesians 2:10, Romans 12:4-5, Psalm 139:13-14, 1 Peter 4:10, Ephesians 4:16
When Tara and I learned we were pregnant for the first time, we went right out and bought a crib. You might have done the same. The act of selecting, purchasing, and assembling a crib is deeply cathar...
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Kyle is Struggling…
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Amy McCready
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- Parenting
- Struggling
At three years old, Kyle had never put on his own shoes. He always had help—shoes can be tricky. At four, he had never put together a puzzle all by himself—he’d get frustrated, so Mom or Dad or the ba...
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Paul David Tripp
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In times of struggle and failure, we need to do more than pronounce judgment on what's wrong and enforce punishment. We need to talk, discuss, question, evaluate, engage, and interact with our tee...
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God’s Gifts to Immature People
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R. Paul Stevens
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Psalm 127:3, Ephesians 6:4, Colossians 3:21
Children are God’s gifts to immature people to help them grow up. They are also God’s gifts to help parents go deep with God. . . . Parenting is not for anything. It is not a contract with God in whic...
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Ownership Parenting vs. Ambassador Parenting
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Paul Tripp argues in Parenting that a common cause of dysfunction in families is that parents (often unconsciously) adopt a view he calls the “ownership view” of parenting. In effect, it is acting a...
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Losing Control In a Waffle House Hat
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Ryan P. Tinetti
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In his book Scream-Free Parenting , family therapist Hal Runkel recounts a visit to the Waffle House with his family that went horribly awry. It was a Saturday morning and the place was busy beyo...
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Parenting is Like an Airline Emergency
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Gary L. Thomas
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- Parenting
- Needs
Dr. Kevin Leman once told me that parenting is like an airline emergency. Before takeoff, every plane passenger is instructed that if the oxygen masks come down, parents should put on their own masks ...
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Wayne Mack
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Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Chris...
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A Prayer for Children in Worship
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Jake Meador
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Lutheran pastor Hans Fiene...in 2018...writing to parents who are worried about having children in church because of the sounds they make, Fiene said, For many years, there were no little children at ...
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Denis Waitley
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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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Paul David Tripp
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If rules and regulations had the power to change the heart and life of your child, rescuing your child from himself and giving him a heart of submission and faith, Jesus would have never needed to com...
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William Temple
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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
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Getting Your Deepest Desire Isn’t Always a Good Thing
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Timothy Keller
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My wife and I once knew a single woman, Anna, who wanted desperately to have children. She eventually married, and contrary to the expectations of her doctors, was able to bear two healthy children de...
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Fostering Shame in a Little Girl
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Sandra D. Wilson
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I was standing in line in a crowded public rest room engaged in one of my favorite hobbies, people watching, when I observed a brief interaction between a mother and daughter. Mother looked harried an...
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Just Charge It!
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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I recently attended an event sponsored by Compassion International, the International Child Sponsorship Organization. The event was called “Stepping into My Shoes”. The purpose being to show children ...
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Nora Ephron
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When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.