Can I Love My Child Too Much?

Is it possible to love our children too much? Idolatry is a sin; we know that. The first two of the Ten Commandments make this clear (Exodus 20:2–7). While we are aware that things like money, success, and possessions can become idols, how can something good, like loving our children, become an idol? When we become parents, our children become the focus of our lives. We sacrifice for them. We stay up late with them while they are sick, tend to them, and nurture them. Children are a gift from God. However, sometimes, as we love them, their happiness and...

Kim Shay

How to Parent Children Who Are Suffering

Sarah Dobrenski

Dear Mom With Young Children

Christel Humfrey

What I Used to Believe about Parenting

Paul Carter

Telling the Kids: Helping Our Children Know and Worship God through Suffering

Adam Dorsey

The Priority of Spiritual Motherhood

Christel Humfrey

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was a puritan woman and a published poet, but what fascinates me most about her is the priority she placed on spiritual motherhood. She wrote letters, proverbs and biblical advice for her children (even into adulthood). When it came to building up her children’s faith, she didn’t leave it to the experts. She took every opportunity to invest in her children’s spiritual good. As Mother’s Day approaches, Anne can provide an example of spiritual motherhood to all—both those with biological children and those with a spiritual family. Near the end of Anne’s life, she wrote a letter...

The Priority of Spiritual Motherhood

Christel Humfrey

What Augustine’s Stolen Pears Taught My Three-Year-Old

Wyatt Graham

As a family, we recently watched a half-hour cartoon on Augustine. While watching, my three-year-old daughter became interested in the “mean guy” (Augustine). Well, he was mean but he turned good, I said, because Augustine came to love Jesus. And that changed his life. After the show, I grabbed a couple of books by Augustine. One of which is my favourite book of all-time, The Confessions. On the cover, Augustine sits in the garden with hands in his face and a pear tree behind him. My daughter was fascinated by the pear tree. That pear tree represents a highly symbolic...