It’s so easy to get caught up in the day to day, and even the moment to moment details of parenting that we can lose sight of the long-term goal of parenting. Namely, that our kids with have healthy relationships with God, with us, and with others...

Wise and effective discipline is one of the biggest challenges of raising children. That’s why we covered patience last week before getting to discipline this week. When we run out of patience, it’s easy to forget that the goal of discipline isn’t to...

It’s a parent’s behavior, not their words, that determines how kids turn out. Paul shows us that the behavior of loves is the most important quality of the relationship. Every parent says that they love their kids. But is love the dominant behavior of...

Effective parents are people who have fully learned to embrace a very uncomfortable tension. They embrace the reality that their family isn’t want it could be or should be. At the same time, they fully embrace and purse the vision for what God wants...

Now that we've done the work of forgiving others, there's one last component to triggering happiness. It's to see people as Jesus sees them. Jesus has the eye of an artist. He can see beauty in his mind's eye before it exists...

If you have a wound, it will either get infected or it will heal. There's no third option. The same is true when someone sins against you. Your inner life will either heal, or it will get infected. But there's some misinformation about...

Whenever we're wronged, it's tempting to hang on to resentment and grudges because we think that if we let it go, then the guilty will get away with their wrongdoing. It's only when we zoom out and remember that God is the perfect...

The reason why people are quick to anger is because we forget how offensive we are, both to others, and, more specifically, to God. By default, we're experts at casting ourselves as victims, and telling ourselves stories that put us at the...

People are easily angered and quick to take offense these days. But taking offense isn't just unhealthy, its ungodly. Holding on to offense never hurts the person who offends you. It only hurts you. It hurts your health. It hurts your inner...

Christmas might not be what we want it to be this year. Traditions and celebrations will not go on as normal. But instead of being passive, or embracing self-pity, we’re determined to spark joy this Christmas. We’ll see how the Christmas story sparks...