I have always enjoyed working with and preaching to teens. They are exciting, unpredictable, curious, energetic, needy, moody, loving, unloving, kind, mean, etc. When I finished Bible college, my first ministry was being a youth pastor for a good church. It was so rewarding and it gave me so many early gray hairs. It seemed...
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Thoughts on the Home | Goodly Heritage
“Sadly, too many parents measure the spiritual temperature of their children by their ability to abstain from worldliness, instead of how deeply attracted they are to godliness” “If I fervently nurture holiness in the life of my children, then, I can faithfully trust God to keep them from worldliness.” “I missed out on the possibilty...
Growing up PK | Eight Pearls Discovered from Ministry
You find so many mixed reviews when you start asking kids what it is like to grow up in a preacher’s home. For many, they will immediately whine about the pressure of growing up in the ministry “bubble”. “I can’t be myself”, they will often exclaim, “because everyone is watching me.” Some will complain about...
Who Really Needs the Change
“If there is something glaring that we see needs to be changed in a child, we may first need to examine if that child has become a mirror, Â portraying that the need of change is in the character of the parent and not the child. May we desire our children to become more like God...
The Heart of our children
“May we plant in our children’s heart such a desire to know God, that when they grow older, the desire of their soul will be to know that same God in a far deeper way.”
What Every Parent Should Know
In Proverbs 22: 6 We find some words of wisdom to those who are raising a family. This wisdom, from thousands of years ago, is still a foundation for every husband and wife whom God has blessed with an “heritage” from the Lord. In this passage we are reminded that there is a need to...
What is Love, from the mouth of Children
‘When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.’ Rebecca- age 8 ‘When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is...