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Establishing Discipline in the Blended Family Home
Blended families face unique challenges. Find helpful advice for establishing discipline in your home to build healthy relationships within your family.
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What’s Your Emotional Bank Balance?
Are you dealing with negativity in your home? Discover how setting an example of affirmation and gratitude can shift your home into a constructive dynamic.
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Empathy: A Parent’s Secret Weapon
Are you struggling with your child's emotional outbursts? Discover the value of tuning in to the emotions being expressed and responding with empathy.
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Mentoring Children to Manage their Conflicts
Tired of playing the referee in your children's conflicts? Consider this great Biblical advice to help your children learn how to manage their conflicts.
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Why Our Words Matter
Our words have an impact on others. Explore Biblical wisdom on why our choice of words matters and consider what your words convey to the lives of others.
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Does My Child Need Counseling?
Are you concerned that your child may need counseling? Explore these five signs to see if your child might benefit from the help of a trained professional.
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Parenting in a Pandemic: Being the Calm in the Storm
Does your home feel chaotic during the pandemic with your children acting out? Learn how you can be a stabilizing force that brings peace to your home.
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Help for Parents: Persevering Through Challenges
Discouraged by the challenges that you face? Discover truths from scripture to encourage you through the struggles of parenting and help you persevere.
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Keeping the Peace with Children at Home
Are you struggling to find peace with your children underfoot? Discover how you can enact God's grace and peace for bringing sanity to your family life.
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What Could You Gain from Counseling?
Do you wonder if counseling could be worthwhile? Consider the blessings that come from including trained professionals in your emotional processing.
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Devotions
How We Communicate Has Consequences
Struggling to communicate with your family? Consider this Biblical wisdom for establishing healthy boundaries to create loving communication in your home.
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Who Can Tame the Tongue?
Do you struggle with holding your tongue? Discover Biblical wisdom to give God control of your speech and find the blessing of God's power in your life.
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How Can We Live the Fruit of the Spirit in Our Families?
Tired of hearing negative interactions? Consider some Biblical wisdom from the book of Galatians for letting the fruit of the Spirit overflow to others.
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Choose Thankfulness
Each day we choose to focus on our circumstances or on the God who has power over our circumstances. Discover wisdom from scripture to guide your thoughts.
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A Bad Attitude is the True Disability
Are you stuck in negative thinking? Consider this Biblical wisdom to transform your thinking and help you overcome the destructive power of negativity.
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Christian Parenting at the Dinner Table
Do you struggle finding time to sit together around the dinner table? Discover the blessings that come from time spent together as family with God's word.
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Making Time to Stay Connected
Do you feel overwhelmed with life's challenges? Find some encouragement from scripture and discover how God sees you. God takes great delight in you!
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Tell of His Faithfulness
We have seen God's faithfulness and our job is to tell that story to others. Tell your story of God's grace and celebrate the faithful deeds of our Lord!
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