The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door
Jay Pathak
(Book) Drawing on the success of their own church campaign, two pastors help readers learn to value, respect, and care for the people who live in their neighborhoods.
The Simplest Way to Change the World: Biblical Hospitality as a Way of Life
Dustin Willis
(Book) Deep down, every Christian wants to make a difference. But for many of us, the years come and go and we never do. The good news is: change can be as simple as opening your front door.
The Blessings of Growing Up in a Christian Home
Tim Challies
"In a Christian home, I experienced God's grace and enjoyed an inestimable privilege. I pray my children and grandchildren will be able to say the same."
10 Ideas and 10 Tips for Family Devotions in 2017
Tim Challies Many Christian families will resolve to approach family devotions with greater faithfulness in the year ahead, or perhaps even to begin family devotions for the first time. These are great resolutions! Here are 10 ideas and 10 tips that may help.
Patient Parenting
David Murray If there’s one lesson I’ve learned in parenting five kids (now aged 2, 12, 14, 18, 19), it’s the need for patience. I now believe that patience is Christian parents’ greatest need. Here are six areas of parenting where I’ve learned (and am learning) to exercise patience.
9 Marks of a Christian Family
Paul Tautges What makes a Christian family distinct from a non-Christian one? Is it the number of times those in it attend church each week, or are there many more fundamental differences?
Focus: Sex Through the Phases
Jim Burns How can parents help their children understand sex, and how can parents teach this in an age-appropriate way?
Six Things Submission Is Not
John Piper What is submission not, according to 1 Peter 3:1–6? When I preached on this passage probably twenty years ago, women in my church found this question really helpful because we bring to the text presuppositions from our experience.
Developing Our Second Bests: Freedom and Encouragement for Homemakers
Abigail Dodds G.K. Chesterton says in his Emancipation of Domesticity that a woman who has made the home her domain “may develop all her second bests.” In a world that runs on specialization, this is an enigma, to be sure.
Mission: Impossible
Paul Tripp As I waited for the light to change, it hit me. It seemed as if my mission was impossible: I was called to be the father of four children. It’s humbling and a bit embarrassing to admit this to you, but I sat in my car and dreamed of what it would be like to be single...