Navigating Chaos

Patrice McCormac

As a parent, the reality is that some level of chaos is part of your life. The lesson we can learn is even in the midst of chaos, God is always at work. Yes, even in the middle of interruptions, spilled milk, disorder, and uncertainty, God is doing a good work! If you choose to believe that God has a good work he wants to do in your life that can only be accomplished while in the middle of unplanned chaos, it will change your response dashed expectations of smooth sailing. Perhaps, the chaos is an opportunity God is giving us to set aside our self-focus and and work through us to love and serve someone else?

Helping Kids Develop Healthy Relationships

Beth Himsworth

In parenting, there is more to preparing your child for building healthy relationships than merely giving your child unconditional love and affirmation. Beth Himsworth uses the model of a child's moral compass, with the four points referring to God, Engagement, Suffering and Wealth/Work, as vital aspects of developing your child's inner core that allows your child to have lasting, healthy relationships for life.

Parenting Tweens

Megan Kavinsky

Megan Kavinsky, a licensed therapist, delves into the broad area of the development of tweens, children between the ages of eight and ten, from moral and spiritual, to the physical, psychological, and social. She explores relevant social and cultural issues, practical parenting techniques as well as effective communication tools. Many amazing changes are occurring in your tween's development at this time and it is a wonderful opportunity to help him or her to navigate these changes in a healthy manner.

Sibling Rivalry

Chris Deken

Sibling rivalry is ultimately a heart issue. It is children attempting to get or competing for love, and affirmation from their human parents instead of receiving their identity and security from their Heavenly Father. Having siblings is a daily laboratory to character development. It is leading your children to the realization they are not the center of the universe. Parenting siblings is about pointing them with grace and love to the One who can meet all their needs.

God's View of Sex, Marriage and Divorce

Conrad Hilario

1 Corinthians 7:1-17

The Apostle Paul teaches the Corinthian church about God's design for sex and marriage, as well as his views on divorce--topics as useful and relevant today as they were then.

The Questions in Your Letter

Dennis McCallum

1 Corinthians 7:1-24

Over half of all marriages end in divorce. We live in a culture that is struggling to make their marriages work. Is there a way to have a successful marriage? Paul gives some advice to the church in Corinth on if it is good to marry, how to have a successful marriage and much, much more.

God's Design for Sex

Conrad Hilario

1 Corinthians 6:9-20

The Apostle Paul urges the church in the immoral city of Corinth to live out their sexuality in a manner consistent with who they are in Christ. These timeless principles are relevant for us today, in a culture that's view of sex is distorted and opposed to God's design. If we allow him, God will change our mind and behavior so that we can be free from the damaging effects of sexual sin, healed of past hurts, and free to experience truly fulfilling sex, the way God intended.

Spirituality and Sexuality

Dennis McCallum

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Our cultural view of sex is similar to the views in Corinth. Throughout the Bible we often find that God's view is countercultural. When it comes to sexuality and healthy marriages, God prescribes a very different path.

Are We Overprotective?

Paul Alexander

Rebecca Alexander

1 Samuel 1

As much as we hate suffering, it is fair to say as parents, we hate even more to see our children suffer. Paul and Becky Alexander share how they as parents have learned to avoid the mistake of following the cultural mandate to protect your children from any and all suffering. They cite studies that demonstrate that allowing your children to experience normal, reasonable levels of suffering actually prepares them to deal with the inevitable suffering, that will come their way, in a positive, healthy way.