Parenting tips on teaching your children how to value kindness and caring
Tips on teaching your children to not only show kindness and caring, but to value it.
Greater than Thanks
It is a season of thanks, when we gather together as families, big and small, blended and together, and acknowledge the blessings that relationships bring and truly how wonderful life is. What a gift it is to have loved ones. To sit around a table or on a couch, in »
Thanksgiving Redux
“One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. Luke 17:15-16 As you get into the full swing of Christmas gift shopping, I am fairly sure most of you »
Call me Al…or Dad? – Parents As Friends
I can remember when I called a fellow mother to tell her the exciting news that my daughter Mara had called me mom for the first time. I had to laugh at her reply: “You’ll grow to hate that word. Apparently, so have some of the children. The Wall Street »
Build Something Bigger Than Record-Setting Strength
Paul Anderson built more than Olympic or Guiness Book of World Record fame. Paul Anderson built lives and offered hope and a second chance to youth and families.
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Faith & Fitness magazine interviewed PAYH fitness director, Bill Ingram, to gain some insight on how the legacy of Paul Anderson has shaped our fitness program today.
Is the Word of the Lord rare where you are?
“In those days the Word of the Lord was rare. I Samuel 3:1 It is ironic that with the great availability today of Bible’s in America and the West, with such an abundance of churches and mega-churches, Christian TV and radio, that in the Public Square the Word of the »
The Spirit of Christmas
“While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for him in the inn. Luke 2:6-7 “But when the time had »
Choose: The Daily Test of Sincere Faith
“Choose you this day whom you will serve; but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 Much is written today in Christian circles of the need to emphasize the wonder and abundance of God’s grace. And so it is. It overwhelms sin and penetrates »
What Is Your Place Of Influence?
What is your place of influence? We often live our lives as if no one else notices us. The attitude of “what I do is my business, and it hurts no one but me simply isn’t true. No matter who we are, our lives always touch someone else’s. “No man »
I Am Not Consumed
“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:23, 24 What is it in your life that is more consuming than anything else; that is, that renders your life hopeless, and you don’t »
Not Good To Be Alone
Genesis 2:18: "The Lord God said, 'It is not good for man to be alone.’" In conversation with a good friend who has his own landscaping business, he bemoaned the difficulties of managing, not plants or flowers or trees or lawns, but people! He once had three or four people »
