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1. 5 Ways Porn Slowly Damages Your Connection With Your Children

When the only thing they hear from adults about sex is that it is bad and you shouldn't do it, they know they aren't hearing the full story. When parents fail to give the full picture of sex kids will ...

Created on 25 January 2017

2. At All Cost, Avoid Saying These Things to Your Wife During a Fight

When I was young, like most teenagers, I could be brash and blunt with little wisdom to guide my words. One particular night, I was out with a group of friends (guys and girls) when a female friend and ...

Created on 28 December 2016

3. The Secret Wish of Many Teenagers—and How You Can Grant It

Several months ago, I was experiencing something I love about fall: high school football. There's a lot of excitement under the Friday-night lights; however, equally intriguing to me is observing teenage ...

Created on 27 December 2016

4. 4 Ways Your Children Can Avoid Worldly Conformity

Private Desmond T. Doss was an unlikely hero. He was a man compelled to serve his country during World War II, while also objecting to taking human life. As a Seventh-day Adventist, Doss believed that ...

Created on 07 November 2016

5. These Godly Actions Will Crush an Attitude of Entitlement With Your Kids

The other night I was working at a Panera Bread. Sitting at the table next to me was a group of teenagers studying for a test. When they finished they were all exiting, leaving their trash on the table. ...

Created on 12 October 2016

6. 6 Signs Your Teen May Be in a Toxic Relationship

Moving into the phase where children become aware of their sexual feelings is difficult enough. After they actually start dating, parenting reaches a whole new level of complicated. This was particularly ...

Created on 06 October 2016

7. 5 Important Points When Talking to Your Daughter About Sex

Sometimes you see things that make you sick to your stomach. That was the case several years ago while I was leading a week-long camping trip. I was leaving the dining hall when I heard a group of giddy ...

Created on 27 September 2016

8. How a Christian Marriage Can Survive Infidelity

While there are several scenes that make the movie Love Actually inappropriate, it does give some intriguing story lines. A painful one is the story of a married couple named Harry and Karen played by ...

Created on 08 September 2016

9. Dangerous Places Your Teen May Search for a Sense of Identity

I played a lot of sports when I was young, but I was best at soccer. It was something I excelled at from an early age. As the years went by the more soccer, and specifically the recognition I received ...

Created on 07 September 2016

10. Believing These Crafty Lies Can Lead to Infidelity

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in a lock shop. My supervisor, Rock, was an old, stocky African-American man with a raspy voice. He was a hard-working man who had a nickname for everyone ...

Created on 24 August 2016

11. Secret Behaviors Teens Desperately Try to Hide From Their Parents

In 1999, a PBS Frontline special called The Lost Children of Rockdale County told the story about a syphilis outbreak in a wealthy Atlanta suburb. Health officials were shocked to discover that most of ...

Created on 18 August 2016

12. 5 Ways Your Pornography Use Affects Your Wife

I wonder what he was thinking on the ride home that night. Earlier in the day, he received a call from his wife. She was doing some work on the computer and found a bunch of porn sites in the Internet ...

Created on 30 March 2016

13. 3 Reasons Why It's Tougher to Be a Teen in Today's Culture

I have always been a fan of Saturday Night Live. One of my favorite eras of SNL was the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dana Carvey had so many memorable characters and catchphrases. There was a character ...

Created on 17 March 2016

14. How You Can Send the Wrong Signals to Your Kids

I like things clean. Specifically, clutter kills me. There's nothing that's worse for me than trying to walk across a room and having to watch my step. One of my biggest reoccurring challenges greets me ...

Created on 01 March 2016

15. How to Detect Signs of Eating Disorders in Your Children

"It all started for me when I was 8 years old," a friend of mine recently shared. She said, "I would sit at the kitchen table looking at Vogue magazine and even Victoria's Secret." She would look at the ...

Created on 26 February 2016

16. 4 Things to Do When You and Your Spouse Have Nothing in Common

On my commute home, I will sometimes listen to talk radio. I recently came across a show in which a husband was calling in to discuss problems he was having in his marriage. He and his wife had been married ...

Created on 17 February 2016

17. No Matter What, Don't Say These 5 Things To Your Wife During a Fight

When I was young, like most teenagers, I could be brash and blunt with little wisdom to guide my words. One particular night, I was out with a group of friends (guys and girls) when a female friend and ...

Created on 29 January 2016

18. 4 Ways to Deal With Your Daughter's Teen Dramatics

A long time ago I volunteered with an organization that worked with teenagers. One day I was running errands when I passed a 16-year-old girl my wife and I had gotten the chance to know and love. We stopped ...

Created on 27 January 2016

19. How to Teach Your Son to Become a Godly Man

When I was in my mid-30s, I had a life-changing epiphany. I worked on the road a lot as a financial adviser, but on this day I was in the office on my computer. When my boss walked in, I buried my face ...

Created on 05 October 2015

20. How to Win the Battle of Sexual Temptation

When World War I broke out, new military technologies were brought to the battlefields. Tragically, military leaders continued to use outdated strategies leading to catastrophic outcomes. Open-field charges ...

Created on 24 September 2015