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Tag Archives: Parenting
MexiGO! 2015
One of the things that I continue to do at College Avenue Baptist Church is to organize and lead a family mission trip to Mexico. Here is a video that describes the trip. Thanks to my buddy Ed Watts for … Continue reading
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Tagged College Avenue Baptist Church, Ensenada, intergenerational, Mexico, Mission Trips, Parenting
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Mexico Mission 2013
Last week I led a group of 20 people from CABC (College Avenue Baptist Church) to Ensenada, Mexico for an intergenerational short-term mission trip. Once again, we stayed at YUGO Ministries’ Ensenada Outreach Center (EOC) and worked with their staff … Continue reading
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Tagged College Avenue Baptist Church, Ensenada, intergenerational, Mission Trips, Parenting, YUGO
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Trinity River – Another Great Family Band
I have a special fondness for family bluegrass bands, I suppose because it combines two of my passions — family ministry and bluegrass music. I work with families at my church and do my best to help parents stay connected … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluegrass, home school, Parenting, Trinity River Band
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Teaching Respect with Consequences
The article below was excerpted from my book Cleared for Takeoff by HomeWord for the March edition of their parent newsletter: Respect is obviously short in supply these days, but is absolutely something our kids need to learn for their … Continue reading
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Tagged consequences, discipline, Homeword, Parenting, parents, respect
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Parenting Tips for the New Year
Actually, I wrote these tips about twenty years ago but they were recently reprinted in HomeWord’s January 2013 Parent Newsletter. Here they are for a whole new generation of parents: Parenting adolescents can be a scary prospect, as kids get … Continue reading
Taking Your Kids to “Big Church”
Every 5th Sunday at College Avenue Baptist, we cancel all of our childrens programming during the morning worship hour so that families can worship together all in the same place. Our services are intergenerational in the sense that our youth … Continue reading
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Tagged Carlton Harris, College Avenue Baptist Church, intergenerational, Parenting, worship
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D6 conference this week in Dallas
I’ll be heading off this week for a conference in Dallas which is called D6, named after the oft-quoted passage in Deuteronomy 6 which commands parents to know the commandments of God and to “impress” them on their children in … Continue reading
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Tagged College Avenue Baptist Church, D6 Conference, Ministry, Parenting, youth ministry
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Sticky Faith
A few weeks ago I got a shiny blue package in the mail from Zondervan Publishing House containing a prepublication copy of Sticky Faith, the new book for parents by Kara Powell and Chap Clark. The book has a catchy … Continue reading
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Tagged Chap Clark, Generation to Generation, Kara Powell, Parenting, Sticky Faith
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A Positive Spin on the Ten Commandments
I have often talked to parents about the importance of writing family mission statements or family creeds to help pass faith from one generation to the next. Many children grow up in Christian homes not really sure about what their … Continue reading
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Tagged College Avenue Baptist Church, Deuteronomy 6, Family Mission Statements, Generation to Generation, Parenting, parents, Ten Commandments
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Generation to Generation
My new book Generation to Generation was released a couple of weeks ago by Standard Publishing. I just got my copies and I’ve been handing them out to family and friends like a new father handing out cigars. Writing a … Continue reading