Parenting

"A mom at church recently asked me for parental advice. Specifically, she wanted to know how to make her young son stop a pattern...

I was tickling my youngest daughter, Macie, on the couch. Boy was she giggling! She was loving it just like both of my girls...

I love stories! They have the capacity to call forth all kinds of emotions. Stories can make you cry, laugh, scream, even change behavior. Here...

The title of this post should be: Random. But “random” is well, random. So I borrowed the title of the chapter where this story...

About 3 years ago, our small group read and studied through the book A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson. The...

This morning, Pastor Heath and I hosted an hour-long (turned into an hour and a half) conversation regarding wisdom and the use of technology...

There was a sermon that I preached a couple of years ago called "Watching You: Stewarding the Rising Generation." I wrote kind of a...

My friend, Pastor Heath Davis, wrote a great blog post last year called "Parenthood and the Ticking Clock" and gave me permission to re-post...

"A famous preacher had a friend who was well known for his short temper. One day, at a party, he asked this friend to...

Six years ago, I wanted to clearly define a path forward in the discussion at Hayward Wesleyan Church regarding family discipleship. In order to do...

I received this email from a children's pastor a few weeks ago and I'd been thinking about how to respond. Here is the email: Hi...

// Heads-Up Discipline happens in a variety of contexts. The context this topic comes up most often is in parenting. But discipline has to happen...