Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. ...

With thirteen children and twenty-six grandchildren (and counting!), Marlene Ellingson has spent a lifetime figuring out how to become a better parent. Perhaps not surprisingly, the best answers come from a perfect parent--our Father ...

An orphan, abandoned and alone. A family, comfortable and secure. A shaky step of faith. An unprecedented complication. A heartbreaking separation. An unyielding quest. A love story that is every Christian's story. Bringing Lucy Home ...

The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family addresses one of the top current concerns about youth and the church: the reality that nearly half of all young people raised in Christian families walk away from their faith when they graduate f...

Slammed doors. Hurting hearts. Tricia Goyer knows what it's like to parent children with chronic anger. In Calming Angry Kids, Goyer draws on her own experience to help readers understand what's going on in a child's brainfocus on rel...

"There is really no better indicator you're a mother than acquiring the ability to catch throw-up in a plastic bag, disinfect your hands, and immediately ask your friend to pass the beef jerky as you put on another Taylor Swift s...

To be human is to long for home.Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of grief. This book connects that desire and disappointment with the story of the Bible, helping us to see ...

When a family is affected by disability, everyone’s life changes. Whether you’re a father, mother, sibling, grandparent, or other relative, you have specific questions based on your role in the family as well as unique needs for s...

Practical Solutions to the Issues Stepfamilies FaceThe Smart Stepfamily Participant's Guide provides discussion questions to use before and after watching the Dvd, space to take notes, and bonus reading material. Includes leader instr...

This humorous, poignant, and conversational guide invites young men and women to practically apply gospel solutions to all of life's pressures, big or small. From navigating failure, roadblocks, and spiritual warfare to tackling relev...

At first, Ken Abraham wrote off his mother's changes in behavior as quirks that just come with old age. There was memory loss, physical decline, hygiene issues, paranoia, and uncharacteristic attitudes. He soon realized that dementia ...

Moms, are you struggling with patience? Worrying about your children's spiritual development? Concerned about their social or behavioral issues? Wondering how to get it all done when there's just never enough time? Author Marla Alupoa...

"If, like me, you've stepped on a Lego while barefoot, it can be difficult to wrap your mind around the divine qualities of the path beneath your feet." Jami AmerineCome find the miracle in the mayhem.As moms, we know we've ...

Few topics are more difficult for parents to discuss with their daughters than dating and relationships.  Due to their lack of knowledge about the world their teens face coupled with the scant dating information they received as teen...

No matter who we are or where we come from, autism has taken us on a common journey. Our faith has given us a common hope. We are different - black, white, male, female - but we all have children with autism. These are our stories: ou...

We all want to guide our children into the abundant life that Jesus offers. But when we pursue the more and better that the world offers above our pursuit of Jesus, we fall into dangerous parenting habits. In Becoming a Spiritually Fo...

In Spiritual Parenting parents learn to create a home environment that God can use to work in their children's lives. It's a biblical, innovative fresh approach to parenting—and one that's long overdue. It's hard enough to train ki...

Being a mom is all of it: light and dark, highs and lows, fever pitch frustration and all-consuming love. By now, you already know that with great love comes great joy . . . and great pain. It can be crazy-making! But it doesn't have ...

There's hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what's best for children are turning the tide. Johann Christoph Arnold, w...

As a mom, you rule your family's universe. Everyone looks to you to know the answers, create the atmosphere, and make it happen -- whatever it is. Who you are has a huge impact on who your children become. And though you may not alway...

Author and Instagram star Heather Avis has made it her mission to introduce the world to the unique gifts and real-life challenges of those who have been pushed to the edges of society. Mama to three adopted kids - two with Down Syndr...

These are the faces that call me "mom," the three children who made me a mother.            When I started my journey into parenthood I never thought it would look like this. I never planned on having three adopted...

What and who should get the best of us? And why is it so enticing to choose lesser things instead of lasting things?   As moms we know the magnetic pull to steer away from what's important and choose what feels irresistible in the mo...

I have always felt that God has a plan for my life. For my husband and my children, he has always been in charge. God led us to Ashburn, Virginia, in 2014. He brought me to Onelife Fitness as a personal trainer. Then he introduced me ...

When Rachel Balducci looks for material for her writing, she doesn't have to look far. Her subject matter can be found climbing through the window, hanging on to the edge of the roof, and always at the refrigerator. Here she chronicle...

Have you gotten comfortable―maybe even complacent―in your spiritual life? Maybe you can check off all the right boxes―going to church, reading your Bible, praying before meals. Maybe you even lead a small group or serve as a dea...

Conscientious parents who long to bring their children up as good Christians and good citizens face an uphill battle. In a culture of rampant narcissism and moral anarchy, righteous living isn't easy and it isn't popular. But positive...

As parents face the difficult reality of a broken home, a sense of being completely overwhelmed can shut down the perspective they need to find restoration. Parents need to know that they can choose to define this season of their live...

Know That You Are Not Alone on This JourneyAdopting or fostering a child brings its own unique set of challenges only another parent facing the same uphill climb could possibly understand. From parenting children with traumatic pasts,...

Many of us enter parenthood with a perfect vision of what our family will be. But along the way we discover that the children we've been blessed with are real human beings, with their own minds, ideals, and views of the world. Our inf...