Parenting

A Meditation on Wombs

It’s a curious story, this drama unfolding in the lives of two women, each one an unlikely choice to participate in the gate-crashing of the universe. God chose women and wombs to house men. And what men! One, the messenger…

Your Response to Children Reveals Your Heart

The first time I loaded up our young children in a shopping cart all by myself, I mentally prepared for the challenge ahead. Though the potential for whining, grabbing, hitting and pleading was very real, my biggest anxieties surrounded people’s…

10 Resolutions for Christian Parents

By Greg and Grace Gibson Parenting is war. There is, and we can’t say this with enough emphasis, nothing more war-like in the spiritual realm than parenting. If you are a parent, than you understand this fierce posture that you…

JBMW, FALL 2015 | Is Proverbs 22:6 a Promise for Parents?

Dr. Jonathan Akin Pastor Fairview Church Lebanon, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** Is Proverbs 22:6 a promise? Many Christian parents feel guilty when their children do not “turn out right.” They ask questions like, “What did we do wrong?…

JBMW, FALL 2015 | Is Proverbs 22:6 a Promise for Parents?

Dr. Jonathan Akin Pastor Fairview Church Lebanon, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** Is Proverbs 22:6 a promise? Many Christian parents feel guilty when their children do not “turn out right.” They ask questions like, “What did we do wrong?…

JBMW, FALL 2015 | Let Boys Be Non-Medicated Boys

Greg Gibson | Family Ministries Pastor Foothills Church, Knoxville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** We’ve all heard it before—stories, that is, from people reminiscing about the “good ol’ days” when they were kids. “When I was a boy,” they say with…

JBMW, FALL 2015 | Let Boys Be Non-Medicated Boys

Greg Gibson | Family Ministries Pastor Foothills Church, Knoxville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** We’ve all heard it before—stories, that is, from people reminiscing about the “good ol’ days” when they were kids. “When I was a boy,” they say with…