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A household that throws its worries
As the school year opens, 1 Peter 5 offers families a way to handle anxiety together rather than each alone.
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20 pieces
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Leaving Egypt Together
Every marriage carries something out of its past that God means to leave behind, and the leaving is done side by side.
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A Household Guide to Telling the Story
Exodus 12 and 13 make parents the primary teachers of redemption, and give them a method.
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What Proverbs Actually Says About Raising Children
The book has a reputation for harshness on parenting; a closer look finds something more patient and more demanding.
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No Condemnation at Home
What Romans 8 has to say to a marriage where one or both people have kept score too long.
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A Household Guide to Romans 5 to 8
How a family can read the heart of Paul's letter together over a few weeks, with words explained and questions for the table.
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Preparing Children for What They Cannot Yet Bear
Jesus' way with his disciples in the upper room offers parents a model for telling hard truths in the right measure.
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More Than Ten Sons
Elkanah's love for Hannah was real and still fell short, and marriages can learn from both facts.
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Praying for Your Children the Way Hannah Did
A guide for households on asking God for children, praying over them, and giving them back.
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What the Fights at Home Are Really About
James asks where quarrels come from, and the answer is a useful tool for parents in the middle of a long summer.
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What God Has Joined Together
Jesus answers a question about divorce by going back to the beginning, and a marriage can go there too
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Teaching Children to Love God With Everything
A guide for households working through the greatest commandment together this summer
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Raising Children Who Know Where They Belong
Paul's language of heavenly citizenship offers parents a way to shape what their children treat as home.
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Isaac Loved Her: A Marriage Built on Someone Else's Prayers
The courtship of Isaac and Rebekah is arranged, prayed over, and freely consented to, and it has more to teach modern marriages than it first appears.
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Teaching Your Household the Way of the Lord
God chose Abraham so that he would direct his children and household after him, and that job description has not changed.
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Praying for a Child When the Answer Seems to Be No
What the Syrophoenician mother in Mark 7 teaches parents about persistence, humility, and hope.
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Thorns in a Marriage
The parable of the sower offers a surprisingly precise account of how a marriage's spiritual life gets crowded out.
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Reading Mark as a Household
A practical guide to walking through Mark 1 to 4 together at home, whatever your family looks like.
Prayer for the Family of God
A prayer shaped by Jesus' words about his true brothers and sisters.
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Praying With Your Children Before They Are Old Enough to Understand
Psalm 20 is a blessing spoken over someone else, and it offers a pattern for the household