ABCD
"Sweetheart, I have the most wonderful news. You’re going to be a big brother/sister! A tiny new member is coming to join our family."Welcoming a new baby is a beautiful milestone, but for your firstborn, it can feel like their entire world has been turned upside down. It’s a huge...
Lilka Finley Raphael
A fool spurns a parent’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows prudence. --Proverbs 15:5 (NIV)Now that my children are adults and long gone from the nest, I constantly remember my mother’s wise words, “Once a parent, always a parent. The prayers never cease.” She was adamant that parenting had no...
Peggi Tustan
"Resentment is an early warning signal for needed change." –Dr. Henry Cloud“I totally agree with the older brother,” Jill told our group. Six of us were gathered around my kitchen table discussing the Parable of the Prodigal Son. “If we serve God our entire lives,” she said, “And then a...
Lilka Finley Raphael
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but...
Lilka Finley Raphael
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but...
Hannah
Hebrews 12:7:"Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?"Isaiah 66:13:"As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem."Psalm 103:13:"As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD...