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Are You Parenting with Grace?

Are you parenting with grace? How is the gospel working out in your home. How are you raising your children to cherish and follow Jesus, to be good citizens and saints? How are you passing on your understanding of the gospel to your kids and the next generation?
Cheap Grace Parenting
Consider this quote:
Seeing grace as an […]

Our Worst for our Kids Best?

Children need to see the best and worst of marriage in order to understand not only the depth of sin but also the luminescent glory of conviction, repentance, grace, reconciliation, and celebration. Otherwise relational darkness will be known but not named. And it will poison the hope of healing. ..Whenever parents fail to grow as […]

The Joys and Challenges of Parenting

If you are parent, you probably clicked on this post right away. There’s something about being a parent that is both uniquely joy-giving and challenging. As a result, we often look for honest, life-giving stories to help us grow into our parenthood. As I grow with my two kids, I am steadily challenged to rely […]

Family Devotions with Unattentive Kids

Dr. J. Ligon Duncan answers some practical questions about how, what, and why to lead family devotions with little, inattentive kids:
My own answer is you start family worship as soon as possible, as soon as one is married, and continue it after children come along, no matter how young the children are (and the younger […]

Top Books for 2007 (that I actually read)

DeLillo immediately thrusts the reader into a world “of falling ash and near night” only to abandon him in subtle anticipation. Making his way through the a-chronological sequence of events that follow, the reader is forced to grapple with social, interpersonal, psychological and, at times, spiritual impact of the destruction of Twin Towers. This is no 9/11 rip-off.

A reader has expressed concern over my interpretation of Eldredge’s You Have What It Takes, expressed in my recent article “Imagine Your Children.” Though my article is primarily focused on redemptively engaging the fears and frustration of parenting, not in debating or critiquing Eldredge, below I have offered a clearer interpretation of what I consider […]