People do not name their child Judas for a good reason. At the time no one thought Judas would betray and end up away from Jesus forever. Could anything have been done? How do we raise our children so they do not end up away from Jesus forever? The answer is the Gospel.

Wisdom generally comes with age and experience -- but not automatically. Take time with your children and walk with them in their lives and apply Jesus to them at each step, stumble, jump and fall. Give them the ultimate wisdom of being ready for Jesus when he comes.

Do your children procrastinate? It is a long and difficult task to train children to be on task and on time -- but it’s worth it! Most importantly we need to train them not to be spiritual procrastinators.

God gives us warnings not to let addictions distract us for our lives following him and loving others.  We all have some tendency toward addiction.  We need to see ours clearly and help the next generation see theirs so we can avoid them and be ready to serve Jesus and welcome him at his return.

Are you ready for today to be your last? Our your children ready for it to be your last? Their last? Jesus is the only way to be ready.

How many times have you heard people predict the world would end? So far they have all been wrong. Our children need to be ready if today is the last day but work and learn like the world will go on thousands of years after them. We need to train them for that.

Even those who just touched Jesus' cloak were healed. Empower the next generation to connect others to Jesus for eternal blessings.

God calls us and our children to do great things.  We cannot do these things without the foundation of Christ’s message and faith inside of us. Our job discipling the next generation is to train them and help them recognize when they are ready to walk on water.

Train your children to do something amazing by following Jesus. Peter saw Jesus and wanted to do what he did and Jesus empowered him to do just that. Jesus still empowers us to speak his Word, change eternities, announce condemnation and forgiveness -- more amazing that walking on H2O! But we can settle for just getting by each day. We can settle with training our children to expect nothing big from God.

Life is a struggle. It is. We can ignore it or deny it and avoid looking at it, but it still is there. The only thing that is more real than struggle is our loving God and his Son Jesus. We need to be real with our children on both realities for them to have the power to be amazing in this life and empowered forever.