Releasing Your Arrows

At some point, all parents need to release their children and trust in God’s plan for their lives, no matter where that plan takes them.

A quick course on being a godly father.

Just one day can make the difference in a life wasted and one that leaves a legacy that will outlive us all.

As a husband and father, you are the warrior who has been charged with the duty of pushing back against the evil that seeks to prey on your wife, daughters, and sons. If you don’t step up, who will?

I realized I needed to be intentional in raising my children. Fortunately, I had a good model: my own father, Hook Rainey.

The constant love of a mother becomes a bedrock of security for her children.

Ten ideas to help keep you sane during the exhausting, overwhelming years with young children.

How to keep from being burned-out by your full-time, stay-at-home-mom job.

Grandmothers share what they would do differently as young moms.

As we raised our six children, Barbara and I had many opportunities to train them to get along with each other.

Because teens are trying to figure out who they are, what they are supposed to do, and what’s expected of them, all of these issues focus on the big me.

Here are three convictions to build into your child’s life.

You need to give your child the freedom to express frustration or dissatisfaction, but train him how to do this respectfully—and at the proper time.

As you face some of life’s most challenging issues with your child, do not forget that love ultimately changes a person’s life.

Lessons from my daughter’s teenage pregnancy.

Every time I read the story about the Prodigal Son, I feel it’s a story about me.

A crisis with a child means your family is headed into a period of testing … and of growth.

Seven promises for brokenhearted parents