Our society is built on convenience. We have fast food, cell phones, remote controls, anything that we can think of to make things more convenient. At first glance it might not seem that convenience i...
How many people willingly take the difficult road if the easy road is right there ready for the taking. I think if any child naturally chose work hard and doing things the way they were supposed to be...
All humans have a selfish nature to one degree or another. Being a parent, I’m sure one of the first qualities you saw in your young children was their seemingly natural tendency to be selfish. The de...
The Kiev Church has produced an ongoing series of family devotionals that both informs families about life in Eurasia and the ongoing work of the gospel there, but also provides simple and practical B...
For most of us, one of the most difficult things about being a biblical Christian is doubt. We constantly struggle with doubt in many different forms. We can doubt that God exists; we can doubt that t...
Coveting is a danger because it leads to so many other sins as people struggle to get what others have. Yet, there is a more fundamental problem when it comes to coveting. It demonstrates a complete l...
We seem to lie and think about the act of lying, almost as though it’s part of being human. Small kids lie without seemingly having to even learn the behavior. We all know that lying is wrong on some ...
Stealing things is so pervasive in our society that most people have done it without even really thinking about it. Kids are especially susceptible to wanting to steal things that they cannot have. Ye...
You probably don’t have children who have ever murdered someone but that doesn’t mean that the description of God’s people being those that do not kill is of little to no importance to you as a parent...
In Exodus, the Israelites are told to honor their parents so that they may live long in the land. In Ephesians 6:3, Paul echoes the importance of children obeying their parents. He says that the peopl...