Read how musician and Dove Award winner Mark Schultz learned to be a better husband by studying his wife, understanding her love language, serving her — and watching her dad.
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Christ’s love is often demonstrated in small, simple ways. If a few Popsicles can communicate His love, then consider keeping your freezer stocked with them.
Dave Roever tells a story about how God used him when he least expected it.
Helping others together as a couple can make your marriage stronger.
This Christmas, the story of Jesus’ flight to Egypt (as recorded in Matthew 2), bears new insight when viewed through the lens of our hurting region Jesus began his life in a situation similar to what Iraqi and Syrian children refugees are experiencing today. Having escaped death towards an unknown future, Jesus, Joseph, and Mary …
Sami Yacoub, regional director of Focus on the Family Middle East, shares his experience working with displaced families and refugees in the Middle East and three ways you can help.
As we near Christmas, Sami Yacoub shares an update from the work he is doing in helping refugees and those displaced by the situation caused by ISIS.
If you know a family who is journeying through childhood cancer, here are a few ways you can help meet their daily needs.
Encouraging a Christlike heart in our children starts with being authentic in our faith, modeling Christ’s love and allowing our children to experience Him. Then they can respond to what He is doing in their lives.
Jesus must be the focal point in marriage, not your spouse. Much of the time, without being aware of it, we end up idolizing our spouse, and making them our God, instead of allowing God to be our God.
How do you help your children care for others?
How do we prepare our kids to be “shrewd as serpents, and harmless as doves” when they serve? How do we teach them to discern how to give and serve with widsom?
How do we foster and nurture a strong work ethic in our kids, which will be pleasing to God?
Finding volunteer opportunities for your kids is a good way to teach them compassion and stewardship as part of their service to God.
If your kids ever wonder, “What does God look like?” send them to me. I’ve seen His hands. I’ve seen them all my life – on an Iowa couple named George and Ruth. Before I could even read, I watched those hands empty bedpans, prepare sponge baths and feed Ruth’s elderly mother. During my teen …
How can you as a parent practically instill principles of selfless love and sacrifice in your child?
Using consequences to foster responsibility, confidence and success
Teaching children to be grateful and generous is a Christmas gift that can last a lifetime.
Jesus set the standard of selflessness for His disciples when He told them to be His “witnesses, in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). Such a command implies a life lived for others. While it may be too early to burden young children with such …
I never want my children to count their blessings in lieu of reaching out.
