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Holy Week Resurrection Story
Holy Week Resurrection Story On each day of this guide, you will find a passage of Scripture to look up ...
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Why Choices Matter in Parenting
The Parent One Page is designed to be a quick grab and go resource for encouragement and growth. This "One ...
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EH Podcast: Connecting Church and Home Special Needs Ministry
CONNECTING CHURCH AND HOME SERIES PART 4: Partnering with Parents of Kids with Special Needs The Empowered Homes Team sits ...
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EH Podcast: Connecting Church and Home Student Ministry
CONNECTING CHURCH AND HOME SERIES PART 3: Partnering with Parents of Teenagers The Empowered Homes ...
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EH Podcast: Connecting Church and Home Children’s Ministry
CONNECTING CHURCH AND HOME SERIES PART 2: Partnering with Parents Through Children's Ministry The Empowered ...
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EH Podcast: Connecting Church and Home Preschool Ministry
CONNECTING CHURCH AND HOME SERIES PART 1: Partnering with Parents Through Preschool Ministry The Empowered ...
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EH Podcast: Understanding Grief with God’s Help
FLY HIGH: UNDERSTANDING GRIEF WITH GOD'S HELP The Empowered Homes Team welcomes Michelle Adams and ...
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Family Advent Cards
These family advent cards were created to help your family prepare for the celebration of ...
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EH Podcast: Leveraging the Bedtime Routine with Author Nancy Sanders
The Empowered Homes team welcomes author Nancy Sanders to chat about the importance of leveraging ...
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EH Podcast: Praise Him with Lauren Chandler
The Empowered Homes Team welcomes Lauren Chandler to talk about how God used a song ...
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EH Podcast: The Relationally Intelligent Child With John Trent
The Empowered Homes Team welcomes back our friend,John Trent to discuss his recent book The ...
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3 Keys to Building a Faith Foundation in Children
One of my biggest fears was that on the first day of Kindergarten, my child ...
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EH Podcast: Family to Family With The Bolins
Today the Empowered Homes Team welcomes John and Paige Bolin. The Bolins share their family ...
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EH Podcast: Family to Family With The Lynchs
The Empowered Homes Team is excited to introduce Family to Family podcasts. We are inviting ...
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EH Podcast: Parenting and Leading Children With Learning Differences
Watch on YouTube: Listen: Maggie Bertram sits down with Elisha Kalvass to discuss learning differences ...
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EH Podcast: Back to School: Partnering With Teachers
The Empowered Homes Team (Bobby and Meghan) sit down with Ronnie Mosher to have a ...
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4 Tips to Equip Your Child for a Successful School Year
Back to School can be an exciting season for families. Kids look forward to new ...
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Back to School Gameplan
Back to school is both exciting and chaotic. Use the Back to School Game Plan ...
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Back to School Scriptures
The Back to School Scripture Card is designed as a quick reference guide to encourage ...
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7 Questions to Get Your Kids Talking
This school year, I have seen a shift in my oldest son. Last year, when ...
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Family Discipleship Bucket List
Summer Family Discipleship Bucket List Summer is a great time to build intentional rhythms of ...
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Summer Family Discipleship Collection
Parents! Summer is a great time for discipleship! The Summer Family Discipleship Collection is a ...
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About My Dad Free Printable
"All About Dad" Free Printable Make dad laugh and cherish Father's Day with this memorable ...
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5 Tips to Help Your Child Have the Best Summer Camp Experience
Summer camps can be some of the best experiences in a kid’s life. A chance ...
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Gospels in 45 Days Summer Reading Plan
The Gospel in 45 Days Summer Family Reading Plan Follow this simple Bible reading plan ...
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Talking with Your Kids About Sanctity of Life
Use the following points to guide conversations with your kids about sanctity of life. We ...
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Empowered Homes Podcast: Spiritual Leadership in the Home
On episode 16 of Season 2, Bobby is joined by his wife Jenn Cooley and ...
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10 Tips for Raising Boys
Dear Parents of Boys, My wife and I have been doing this “raising boys” thing ...
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Family Movie Devo Collection
Pick up your favorite popcorn and movie snacks and gather your family for a classic ...
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GriefTalk: Printable Conversation Cards for Families
GriefTalk Conversation Cards Death and loss can be a difficult concept for all of us ...
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8 Tips for Talking to Your Kids About Death
Be still and know that I am with you. Psalm 46:10 Every human has two ...
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Empowered Homes Podcast: Celebrating Easter with Your Family
Easter is more than eggs, bunnies, peeps and baskets. Bobby Cooley and Dr. Steve Jones ...
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Emoji Easter Family Devotional
Emoji Easter Family Devotional You might be wondering how emojis fit into the Easter story ...
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5 Ways to Encourage Your Kids After a Hard Day
My son came in the back door from school and went straight upstairs. His shoes ...
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3 Angles to Use When Talking to Your Kids About Porn
Last year, during my son’s football season, we played a team that couldn’t stop our ...
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3 Reasons You Need to Be the Calmest Person in the Room
My wife and I were watching the news, unaware that our kids were behind us ...
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Empodera a tu Nino a Superar la Ansiedad
Sabemos que un niño requiere cierto nivel de preocupación y estrés en la vida. Se ...
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10 Lecciones de Crianza
Mantengo una lista de oraciones en mi escritorio, una lista manuscrita de personas por las ...
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Empowered Homes Podcast: Are Sports Stealing What Matters?
Bobby talks with Randy Heron live from the Tennessee Baptist Summit. They have a candid ...
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Empowered Homes Podcast: A Fresh Look at Being a Dad
Bobby sits down with Dr. Chip Dodd while at the Tennessee Baptist Summit. Chip and ...
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New Year Family Plan
The Parent One Page is designed to be a quick grab and go resource. Parents ...
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5 Simple Family Workouts For Christmas Break
Christmas break may bring much needed downtime for our families, but it can also leave ...
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3 Reminders to Help Families With Teens Thrive Through Christmas Break
Here are 3 tips to help families with teenagers thrive over Christmas Break: 1. Continue ...
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103 Questions for Family Gathering Fun
This Christmas Break use this question game to have some fun with family and friends ...
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Empowered Homes Podcast: Thriving Through Christmas Break
In this episode, Bobby sits down with Meghan Landi to share 5 tips for Thriving ...
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5 Ideas to Help Your Family Thrive Over Christmas Break
Here are 5 Tips to help your family thrive over Christmas Break: 1. EMBRACE THE ...
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5 Scriptures Every Family Should Memorize Together
Christmas Break (or any break from school) is a great time to memorize scripture as ...
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3 Experiences I Want My Family to Have During Christmas Break
Christmas break is here and for most of us we have everything planned out. We ...
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4 Reasons NOT to be the Cool Dad
I don’t know about you, but I think I’m a pretty cool dad. I grew ...
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Teaching Kids Their Place in Worship
Teaching Kids to Understand Their Place in Worship Growing up in a family of music ...
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Advent Devotional
When using this guide we recommend that you work through the material in this way: ...
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Family Advent Devotional
Use this Advent Devotional to encourage families to reflect on Jesus this Advent season. When ...
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5 Phrases That Destroy Confidence in Sons
I was honored to coach my son’s football team last season. Our team won every ...
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Fruit-Filled Christmas-Advent
A Fruit-Filled Christmas It’s the Christmas season, and you know what that makes me think ...
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Empowered Homes Podcast: Extending the Conversation
Extending the Conversation With Kids Conversations with kids can be challenging. Kids are growing up ...
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Christmas Conversation Cards
Use this set of downloadable Advent cards to create Christmas Conversations and point your family ...
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Preschool Advent Project
Use this set of downloadable Advent cards to help point your preschooler to Jesus. Each ...
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7 Practical Ways to Get Your Kids to Sing
There’s a common misconception in the Christian home about singing, and it’s one I’d like ...
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5 Good Ways to Discipline Your Kids
An older mentor told me a story once of how his daughter had made some ...
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7 Questions to Extend Conversation With Your Kids
Our kids are growing up in a text message, quick answer world. While I love ...
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How to Talk to Your Children About Disability
How to Talk to Your Children About Disability By: Brittnie Blackburn Whether it’s a peer ...
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Empowered Homes Podcast: Season 2 Kickoff
This season we are going to focus on a three specific things when it comes ...
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5 Ways I Didn’t Know My Dad Impacted How I Parent
If we put thought into it, it’s easy to see: Your childhood affects your parenting ...
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5 Good Ways to Discipline Your Kids
An older mentor told me a story once of how his daughter had made some ...
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A Grandmother’s Prayer Pattern
A Grandmother's Prayer Pattern by Sylvia Espinoza It was Saturday morning of Labor Day Weekend ...
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4 Ingredients for Parenting Self-Care
How many flights have you taken where you ignore the instructional video before taking off? ...
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Moments Matter
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, ...
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Teaching Your Kids the 5 Steps to Problem Solving
As parents, we solve problems all day, every day. The fridge was left open overnight; ...
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How to Use The Right Parenting Voice
There are many different types of verbal techniques that we can use while parenting our ...
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5 Times Not to Say No To Your Teens
It’s interesting how many questions our kids ask when they’re young. As they become teens, ...
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Working Out Parent Guilt and Regret
Have you ever said something to your kids in the moment and then hours later ...
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4 Signs You’re Setting Your Kids up for Failure
Have you ever had that moment when you look at your kids and think to ...
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3 Mistakes Dads Make Every Day
The other morning, my son attempted to help me make pancakes for the family. He ...
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5 Things I Want My Kids to Say About Me When They Grow Up
At a recent funeral for a longtime friend, I noticed how each of his loved ...
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3 Important Things to do with Your Gamer Kid
I recently saw a social media post that said, “Real men DON’T play video games.” ...
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3 Signs Your Kid Might be Watching Porn
Years ago, a young man at church came up to me to share that he ...
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3 Questions to Ask Before You Leave Your Wife
In 2015, my marriage was on the rocks. We had been kicked out of our ...
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5 Summer Family Activities that Help Build Faith
The arrival of summer can mean many different things for different families. Some may set ...
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Podcast: 5 Summer Family Activities
5 Summer Activities In the final episode of season 1, Maggie and Bobby sit down ...
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How to be a Firm Parent Without Being Mean
Are You Mean? I often find myself feeling guilty for saying something to my kids ...
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3 Reasons Men Still Act Like Boys
Throughout the years, I have met with hundreds of men for counseling. At some point ...
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Creating Purposeful Traditions-Power Parenting
Creating Purposeful Traditions Family traditions can be a powerful way to create purposeful time with ...
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Discipling Your Teen to the Heart of Christ-Power Parenting
Discipling Your Teen to the Heart of Christ We disciple our kids by modeling spiritual ...
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Parenting Children to Leave the Nest
Gripped with fear, she peers over the covers to see the neon red light display ...
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Caught Looking at Porn
Fighting Pornography Addiction Last year, I was eating lunch with a friend and fellow dad ...
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Training Your Kids to Make Godly Decisions-Power Parenting
Training Your Kids to Make Godly Decisions In this Power Parenting, Leslee McWhirter shares 4 ...
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Parenting in a Pornafied World
Parenting in a Pornafied World The statistics on the number of children and young adults ...
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Training Your Child to Have a Quiet Time-Power Parenting
Training Your Child to Have a Quiet Time Parents, as the Primary Faith Trainer in ...
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Podcast: Full Circle Parenting
Tough Conversations It's not just the routines, schedules, discipline, and heartaches—it's the hard conversations. One ...
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5 Attitude Changes to Improve In-Law Relationships
From Primary Faith Trainer to In-law When you are a new parent, it feels like ...
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The 5 Biggest Mistakes Dads Make When Talking to Their Kids About Sex
If you need evidence of mistakes parents make when talking to their kids about sex, ...
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Podcast: College Students Returning Home
In this episode, Maggie and Bobby sit down with Rita Ramirez and Eric Conley to ...
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Special Needs and Your Preschooler
Special Needs and Your Preschooler We are all God's masterpieces and He created us all ...
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4 Principles for Creating Family Contracts
Raising two teenagers has many unique challenges and obstacles. One way my wife and I ...
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Family Contracts-Downloads
As parents, we have to balance establishing boundaries with our kids, while training our dear ...
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Podcast: The Whole Story for the Whole Family
Many people feel the desire to study Scripture and to place the word of God ...
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5 Initiations Your Son Needs From You
When I was a kid, my dad took me to help a friend whose home ...
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Podcast: Teaching Your Kids the Bible Without Being Awkward
Many people feel the desire to study Scripture and to place the word of God ...
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Bedtime Bible Story: Season 3 Episode 32
Bedtime Bible Stories with the Skit Guys He is Risen, Indeed In Season 3, Episode ...
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4 Everyday Ways to Build Confidence in Your Daughter
The last few months, my daughter has been coming downstairs and sitting with me while ...
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Firstfruits Family Devotional
A Fun Family Devo that goes along with the movie Ratatouille ...
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How to Approach the Porn Conversation
How to Approach the Porn Conversation Approaching the conversation about porn with your kids can ...
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Podcast: The Freedom Fight: Breaking Free From Pornography
In this episode, Bobby gets on the phone to talk to Ted Shimer about his ...
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Praying Over Your Children
As parents and the primary faith trainers, we are constantly having to adjust as our ...
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Parenting According to God’s Design: Parent Open Forum
Kingsland Baptist Church welcomes, special guest, Karen Stubbs to the Parent Open Forum. Karen shares ...
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Podcast: Goal Setting
Bobby and Maggie sit down with Joe Landi to talk about the importance of goal ...
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5 Ways to Take the Awkward Out of ‘The Talk’
When I was in fourth grade, my mother had “the talk” with me. Out of ...
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Podcast: Gettin’ (un)Busy With Garland Vance
In this episode, Bobby and Brad get on the phone with Garland Vance to talk ...
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Indicators Your Child May Have a Porn Problem
Indicators Your Child May Have a Porn Problem Empowered Homes has partnered with The Freedom ...
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Podcast: Forgiveness and Your Family
This is the audio from our Marriage and Parenting Weekend. Bobby sits down with Susan ...
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9 Confidence-Building Moments With Your Son
If you are a father of sons, raising confident boys is your heart’s desire. I ...
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Podcast: Raising Kids in a Blended Family
This is the audio from our Empowered Homes Marriage and Parenting Weekend. Bobby sits down ...
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4 Types of Adults Your Kids Should Spend Time With
It really does take a village to raise kids to become productive adults. There is ...
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10 Tips for Leading Family Devotionals
Parents, as the primary faith trainers of our kids, Faith Talks or family devotionals should ...
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A Teen Girl’s Guide to Beating Worry and Anxiety: Interview with Sissy Goff
In this episode, Maggie gets on the phone with author and counselor, Sissy Goff. Sissy ...
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Discipline and Your Kids
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Podcast: Small Group Leaders
Small Group Leaders play an important role in our churches today. Parents have an incredible ...
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The Most Important 10 Seconds in Conversations with Kids
“Dad, can I tell you something?” How did the last difficult conversation go with your kid? ...
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Five Tips for Pursuing Family Goals
Now that you’ve discovered and written down your family mission and values, you are ready ...
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Five Tips to Discovering Family Mission and Values
Oftentimes, mission statements and core values are associated with corporations or organizations but they can ...
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First Team Dad: Interview with Drew Pittman
In this episode, Bobby interviews sports agent and author, Drew Pittman. Drew has written a ...
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7 Adventures for Fathers and Sons
Last summer, I took a hunting trip with my son for a few days away ...
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5 Ways to Create a Safe Home for Hard Conversations
In the average home, we find a lot of tools to keep those homes safe ...
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Podcast-Parent Support and Special Needs Families
In this episode, Bobby and Maggie sit down with Janet Lewis. Janet works in the ...
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Taking Responsibility for Our Decisions
I had lunch with an old friend recently and as we were catching up on ...
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Podcast- Communication: How to Leverage Conversations for Connection
In this episode, we play a recording from a parent open forum at Kingsland Baptist ...
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2020 Vision: Focus on Christmas
2020 has not turned out quite like any of us were expecting. But here's the ...
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Christmas Resources
Check out these resources designed to empower your family to make every moment count this ...
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Three Rules for Discipline That Your Kids Participate In
The Parent One Page is designed to be a quick grab and go resource. Parents ...
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5 Things Dads Need to Teach Their Girls to Do on Their Own
I met my wife in college. We had been dating a few weeks when she ...
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Am I Too Late to Talk With My Teenager About Sex?
The sex talk is that dreaded conversation we sometimes continuously put off because of multiple ...
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Parent Open Forum: Communication and Your Family
Tune in to this Parent Open Forum and learn how to use conversation to create ...
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Conversation Kit
According to a recent article in Time Magazine, when a number of parents were asked ...
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Podcast- Maggie & Bob Show 005 (Phases and Our Kids)
In this episode, Maggie and Bob sit down with Josh Stewart and Rita Ramirez to ...
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3 Things You Need to Think About as Your Kids Get Older
On a normal Monday morning, I sat across from a 17-year-old young man for coffee ...
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What to Do When Your Daughter Is Mean
I could hear my kids arguing upstairs, so I went to see what was going ...
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3 Must-Do Milestones for Boys Before Middle School
I worked with middle school students for 10 years and have seen it all. Most ...
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How to Spell Worship With Your Family
In this series, I want to take a deeper look at each word and how ...
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Growing Up in a Broken Home: Tennessee Boys Ranch
In this episode, Bobby gets on the phone with Jeff Epps. Jeff is a leader ...
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Questions in the Hearts of Our Kids
As your kids grow, they are changing physically, spiritually and emotionally. These changes are hard ...
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Podcast- Maggie and Bob Show 004
In this episode, Maggie and Bob sit down with Brad Flurry and Leslee McWhirter to ...
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3 Truths About Discipling Your Child
When you and your spouse were first thinking about having a child, I’m sure a ...
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Podcast- Pro Tips for At-Home Learning
In this episode, Bobby and Maggie sit down with Tamber Jones to talk about homeschooling ...
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5 Tips for Navigating Extracurricular Activities with Your Kid
I have often told many people that if it wasn’t for sports, I would have ...
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How To Shape Your Preschooler’s Identity in Christ
We can all agree that teaching biblical truths to our children from a young age ...
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Modeling: Kids Watch Everything You Do
Children watch everything we do. They watch how we react in certain situations. Did I ...
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Is Your Home a Safe Place?
In the average American home, we will find a plethora of tools to keep our ...
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Podcast- Leadership Is Parenting: Interview with Dr. Gene Wilkes
In this episode, Bobby sits down with Pastor Ryan Rush to interview Dr. Gene Wilkes ...
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Scripture Cards For Parents
There are a variety of factors in your child’s life that could potentially contribute to ...
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Resources for Depression and Anxiety
Hope for those who suffer from depression and anxiety or parent children or teens who ...
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Afterschool Conversation Starters
Parents, here are some after school conversation starters you can use to engage with your ...
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Using Scripture to Help Heal Your Child’s Heart
There are a variety of factors in your child’s life that could potentially contribute to ...
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Podcast: Maggie and Bob Show 003
Maggie and Bob sit down with Laura, our Preschool Minister at Kingsland Baptist Church, to ...
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Back To School Toolbox
This Back To School Toolbox is designed to equip and encourage your family as you ...
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The Family Dinner Table
One of the most enviable things I have observed on my adventures to some of ...
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God Moments: Leveraging Culture to Disciple Our Kids (Feat. Dr. Jim Denison)
This episode was recorded in October 2019 during the Empowered Homes Conference. Bobby sits down ...
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3 Rules for Discipline That Your Kids Participate In
Being from the south, I was raised to say “yes, sir” and “no, sir.” It wasn’t ...
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3 Differences Between Boys and Girls (and Why It Matters)
Raising boys and girls together is like playing two different sports, with different equipment and ...
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Podcast- A Story of Hope: Infertility, Foster Care and Adoption
In this episode, Neal and Bekah Springer share their adoption story. They discuss the grief ...
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5 Things I Wish My Father Taught Me
My dad passed away on April 15, 2004, just a few weeks before I graduated ...
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Podcast- Parenting Teens in Crisis: Interview with Mark Gregston
(RECORDED MARCH 2020) In this episode, Bobby gets on the phone with Mark Gregston to ...
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Podcast- Summer: The Best and the Worst
In this episode, Maggie and Bobby sit down with Eric Friedmann to talk about summer ...
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5 Things My Daughter Has Taught Me About Anger
Angry parents can be scary to kids. As a dad, sometimes my kids get the ...
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Podcast- Family Shift: Helping Families Stop the Drift
Stop drifting apart and instead thrive together with this practical five-step plan for God's best ...
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Four Questions To Spark Authentic Connection
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Faith Like a Child: What My Daughter Taught Me About Prayer
A few days ago, I went fishing with my daughter. She is my fishing buddy ...
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One Page Collection
The Parent One Page is designed to be a quick grab and go resource. Parents ...
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The Power of Your Words
The Parent One Page is designed to be a quick grab and go resource. Parents ...
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Praying Scriptures for Your Son/Daughter
Parents, as you pray for your son/daughter, you can insert their name into Scripture. The ...
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7 Activities for Dads and Daughters
There is something special about being a girl dad. I was asked a few months ...
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George Floyd: A Conversation with My Teenagers
“Dad, what are your thoughts about the George Floyd situation and all the chaos?” This ...
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7 Ways to Activate the Heart of a Boy
Think back to when you were a little boy. What is your best memory? Was ...
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Podcast: Tech Savvy Parenting – Interview with Brian Housman
This episode was recorded in October 2019 and was originally set to release in March ...
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Podcast: Kids Can – Raising Adults Who Contribute
In this episode, Maggie and Bobby sit down with some special guests to talk about ...
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Adding Stability in an Unstable World
For those of us with children from hard places, instability can be one of the ...
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Stop Ignoring Your Kids: The Szalinski Rule
Have you ever blown off your kids? What do you do when you’re in the ...
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Have That Conversation Now
Parents, your words are powerful! Use these 10 everyday phrases to instill confidence, self-respect, and ...
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The 5 Most Important Questions Kids Are Asking About Themselves
Do your kids ask you a bunch of questions? What’s for dinner? Why is the ...
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10 Consistencies Your Kids Need at Home
Consistency offers stability to your kids when they need it the most. For most families, ...
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Training Your Child to Have a Quiet Time
I grew up in church believing that “good people” went to church on Sundays and ...
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A Bug’s Life: Family Devo
A Fun Family Devo that goes along with the movie A Bug's Life ...
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Star Wars-The Force Awakens: Family Devo
A fun family Devo that goes along with the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens ...
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5 Ways Parents Cause Their Teens Anxiety
I spoke at a retreat for teenagers a few months ago and saw a central ...
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5 Types of Active Listening
Listening is key when it comes to parenting. Learn the five different types of responses ...
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Kid Conversation Starters
Parents, here are some conversation starters you can use to engage with your kids. When ...
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Why We Became Foster Parents
We weren't on the call list. We were enjoying being an inactive foster home after ...
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Surviving Toddlers and Twos
Stephanie Chase gives parents of toddlers a fresh perspective and lots of practical tips for ...
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The Power of Everyday Words
Parents, your words are powerful! Use these 10 everyday phrases to instill confidence, self-respect, and ...
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Podcast: Loss, Faith, and Allowing Pain to Make Room for Joy
In this two-part episode, Bobby talks with his long time friends, Matt and Tara Jarvis ...
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Parent Open Forum: Parenting Through Crisis
Parent Open Forum: Parenting Through Crisis with Mark Gregston How do we parent through crisis? ...
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Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt
Need something fun to get your family up and moving during this stay at home ...
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How To Teach Your Kids the Discipline of Prayer
Prayer is a vital discipline within our relationship with Jesus. Prayer strengthens our connection with ...
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Bedtime Blessings
Dr. John Trent, President of StrongFamilies.com, and Pastor Ryan Rush sit down to discuss an ...
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Podcast: Let’s Talk Homeschool
In this episode, we talk about homeschooling and the blessing it can be. Erin has ...
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Tame the Family Zoo (with John Trent)
John Trent and Kari Trent-Stageberg, the dad and daughter team at StrongFamilies.com, remind us that ...
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Easter 2020
In this episode, Maggie and Bobby sit down with some moms to discuss what Easter ...
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Six Secrets for New Dads
I remember the day we found out we were going to have our first son ...
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10 Ways to Welcome Your College Student Back Home
Some of you parents now have your college student back under your roof, at least ...
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Naming Loss and Gratitude
As we walk with our children through this current "pandemic" storm, we are relying on ...
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