Natasha Crain and AMBrewster discuss the best devotionals for your kids and introduce you to The Christian Mom Thoughts Blog. We love equipping Christian parents to “keep their kids on God’s side.”
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Are your kids planning a sleepover? Is that a good idea? Join AMBrewster as he discusses whether or not sleepovers are a Christ-honoring option for our kids and how parents can teach their children to be safe and godly.
Read Tim Challies: “Why my family doesn’t do sleepovers.” Read Lisa Cherry: “What To Do About Sleepovers” Check out 5 Ways to Support TLP. Discover the following episodes by clicking the titles or navigating to the episode in your app: “Parental Blindspots | Tim Challies Interview, Part 1” (episode 35) Click here for our free Parenting Course! Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. Follow us on Twitter. Follow AMBrewster on Twitter. Pin us on Pinterest. Subscribe to us on YouTube. Need some help? Write to us at Counselor@TruthLoveParent.com. Click "Read More" for today’s Episode Notes and Transcript. No doubt there are many phrases regularly quoted in your home. “If it’s not yours, don’t touch it.” One of the concepts repeatedly quoted in my ministry is: “If your philosophy doesn’t work 100% of the time, you need a new philosophy.” I spend a lot of time fleshing out the concept of “Failure Philosophies” with the boys I work with at Victory Academy, and I’d like to take a moment to do the same for you. What is a Failure Philosophy?It poisons conversations. It steals into nearly every Facebook debate. It train-wrecks biblical one-anothering. And it’s present in 100% of broken relationships. Communication ProblemsThere isn’t an unbruised holiday, a unscarred hour, or an unsoiled event. Even in the midst of the most loving conversations, lies, silent treatment, screams, propaganda, cutting words, manipulation, and vitriol have appeared from thin air as suddenly and explosively as a Las Vegas magician.
We’re all guilty. But wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could eradicate the needless communication problems listed above in order to focus on the really important things? Instead of unraveling a knot of lies, we could seek forgiveness and restoration. Instead of disarming an exploding temper, we focus on points of agreement. Instead of throwing verbal hand grenades designed to decimate our opponents, we could reason our ways toward a solution. To this end, I’d like to share this simple tool, and I pray it will be beneficial for your family both in both learning to communicate correctly and being reminded to communicate correctly. I call it the “Communication House.” It works like this:
Today we discuss the single most important tool for any parent!
Peruse the Victory Academy for Boys’ Parenting Digest. Check out 5 Ways to Support TLP. Click here for our free Parenting Course! Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. Follow us on Twitter. Follow AMBrewster on Twitter. Pin us on Pinterest. Subscribe to us on YouTube. Need some help? Write to us at Counselor@TruthLoveParent.com. Click "Read More" for today’s Episode Notes and Transcript.
God doesn't want us to be a leader the way most people things. We cannot be a good leader unless we're a First Follower.
Check out 5 Ways to Support TLP. Click here for our free Parenting Course! Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. Follow us on Twitter. Follow AMBrewster on Twitter. Pin us on Pinterest. Subscribe to us on YouTube. Need some help? Write to us at Counselor@TruthLoveParent.com. Click "Read More" for today’s Transcript. Counselee: “My wife doesn’t respect me.” or Counselee: “My parents are such idiots!” or Friend: “When you’re talking with atheists, it doesn’t do any good to quote the Bible to them.” Of course, you realize that few conversations actually work this quickly. Wisdom dictates that it take a bit longer to get from the first observation to the last.
Still, over the past ten years of family counseling I can’t remember a single situation where a counselee was perfectly innocent within a conflict. There wasn’t a single man who hadn’t provoked his children to wrath or not lived with his wife according to knowledge. I never counseled a wife who’d submitted to her husband and loved her children consistently. And -– believe it or not –- I never met a child who honored and obeyed his parents without fault. They all had grievances, they all had mental fingers to point, they all had emotional subpoenas to deliver, they all had judgment to bear down . . . but they all had responsibility too. Each train-wrecked relationship was partially their doing. Each argument was of their own making. The same goes for me. And the same goes for you.
Imagine being a Christian parent who's characterized by fully conscious willful intent and a measure of forethought and planning. Doesn't that sound amazing!?
Check out 5 Ways to Support TLP. Click here for our free Parenting Course called "25 Days to Becoming a Premeditated Parent"! Click here for "How Do You Become a Premeditated Parent?" Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. Follow us on Twitter. Follow AMBrewster on Twitter. Pin us on Pinterest. Subscribe to us on YouTube. Need some help? Write to us at Counselor@TruthLoveParent.com. Click "Read More" for today’s Episode Notes and Transcript. |
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