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Podcast: On Parenting: The Best of ‘The Crossway Podcast’
Hear from various Crossway authors on common questions and problems facing parents today.
Articles on Marriage and Family
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Why Is It So Hard for Parents to Extend Grace to Themselves?
Parents often run and hide from their shame and let it drive a wedge between them and their heavenly Father in a way that would never happen between them and their kids.
3 Essential Elements to Start a Family Worship Routine
Kathryn Butler, Korrie Johnson
For many families the value of studying Scripture is clear but the practicalities seem murky. How do we create a rhythm of family worship in our households?
Relief and Freedom for Struggling Parents
The remedy for so many of our struggles as parents is found in having faith that we can jump into the arms of God and be welcomed and protected.
Katie Butler and Korrie Johnson discuss the value and challenges of children’s literature and how to sort through both good and bad themes with your kids.
7 Ways a Husband Can Take Initiative in Showing Love to His Wife
Husband, you’re not your wife’s sinless, all-wise redeemer. She has one: Christ. Yet Christ died to save the church and to make the church holy before the Father.
5 Meaningful Ways to Tell Your Daughter She’s Beautiful
If I’m not careful, I can subtly communicate to my little girl that beauty is only skin-deep and that beauty is the only thing that matters. How can we counter these messages?
When Your Kids Make Wrong Choices, Help Them Run to Jesus
As much as we may yearn to make the right decision and do the right thing all the time, this is impossible for us. We are far short of the glory of God.
The Crucial Difference Between Two Kinds of Authority Instituted by God
The Bible presents two kinds of authority—one with the power of enforced discipline and one without. The former we can call the authority of command; the latter we call the authority of counsel.
How to See Your Child’s Imagination as a Gift—Not an Annoyance
It’s a universal truth that the lively sparks of the imagination that kids foster butt up against the iron-cold realities of a grown-up world and more often than not, get them in trouble.
If Jesus promises to make everything right someday, why doesn’t he do it right now? This is a natural question children might have.
A Guide for Your Family Worship During Holy Week
Holy Week offers a wonderful on-ramp for making family worship a priority—to set aside intentional time to worship together. In doing so, you may even begin rhythms that shape your family in the days that follow.
5 Questions to Help You Disciple Your Children Out of Their Spiritual Blindness
Your children are spiritually blind—and they don’t know it. Your calling as a parent is to speak into their darkness with words to try to help them see what they don’t.
Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions: How Can I Know God Hears Me When I Pray?
How do I know God hears me when I pray? This is a question that your kid might ask, or something similar to it, and it’s a natural one.
Encouragement for Moms Who Don’t Always Feel Gentle
“Like a nursing mother taking care of her own children” (1 Thess. 2:7). When the apostle Paul sought a simile for gentleness, motherhood came to mind. How apt.
In Your Hospitality, Don’t Neglect the Main Course
As we show hospitality, we need to keep the main thing the main thing—loving Christ ourselves and helping others do the same.
Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions: What If I’m Not as Good at Things as Other Kids?
As kids shakily seek out their place in the world, it’s easy for them to compare themselves to their peers. These comparisons can stir up some unsettling feelings.
Podcast: How to Talk to Your Kids About Suffering (Beth M. Broom, LPC)
Beth Broom discusses talking to children about who and where God is in the midst of suffering and how parents can teach children based on a theological foundation.
An Advent Reading Plan from ‘The Biggest Story’
This reading plan features short Scripture readings highlighting twenty-four promises from the Old Testament about the coming Messiah, plus a final passage from Matthew 1 for the birth of Christ.
The Key Difference Between Entertaining and Christian Hospitality
In a world that doesn’t understand intimacy and would rather mouth off on social media than sit around a dinner table and talk about real things, it takes practice to embrace some awkwardness.
Annual Cicadas and Everyday Theology
Devon Provencher, Jessica Robyn Provencher
Theology doesn’t have to happen in a classroom. It can start with a bug, a question, or a car ride, and grow into a joyful discovery of who God is and how he’s at work in everything around us.
Overcoming Anxiety and Insecurity in Parenting
Two of the most common things that parents face are anxiety and insecurity. And in Galatians 5, you’ll not find anxiety or insecurity listed as fruits of the Spirit.
When Pleasing Our Kids Becomes Idolatry
If your kids were in charge, how would they treat you differently? Would they honor you with their decisions, or would they find more ways for you to degrade yourself in order to honor them?
Podcast: How Do I Teach My Children to Pray? (Kristen Wetherell)
Kristen Wetherell reviews common struggles parents may have when talking about prayer with their children and how to create prayerful environments for them.
How Can Parents Balance Being Both Firm and Approachable?
When I beat myself up for not getting it exactly right, I’m actually making matters worse. I’m not walking in freedom.
Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions: What If I Keep Failing at Something No Matter How Hard I Try?
It can be so hard to try your best at something and not have the outcome that you expect. Adults struggle with this and wrangle over the ramifications for their identity and their self-worth.
No matter how hard we try, our kids are not exempt from suffering in this life. Lament helps them find comfort and hope in the God who made them, saved them, and always hears them.
Podcast: How to Talk with Your Kids About Death and Loss (Alyson Punzi)
Alyson Punzi discusses how she has clung to the Lord through immense grief and suffering, describing how to lead a child through the pain of loss to the hope of the gospel.
How to Relieve Tension in Your Home
God’s gentleness is often displayed through condescension. To condescend is to lower yourself in a humble manner in order to be considerate and accommodating.
Podcast: Singing Is for Everyone and Every Day (Kristyn Getty)
Kristyn Getty talks about how singing together as a family gives children songs they will carry with them through their whole lives.