by Jonathan Denton | May 6, 2024 | Leadership, Student Ministry
(Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Disciplemaking With Guys) One Sunday night I was late for our high school guys’ Bible study. When I came into the room, the guys were playing catch with a baseball they had made from playdough. When I asked them to put it away, Trevor...
by D6 Family Ministry | Apr 29, 2024 | Parenting
Learning self-control is a lifelong process, and you should look at each day as an opportunity to help your child continually grow in self-control. What can you do to help him or her? Model self-control. Yelling at your child for yelling at his sibling is not...
by Rich Griffith | Apr 22, 2024 | Christian Living, Parenting
I feel like I need to start with a couple of confessions. Confession is not only good for the soul, but it also brings clarity of purpose when it comes to living for Christ. So, here are my confessions. When I first became a dad, I realized I had more shortcomings...
by Jon Forrest | Apr 18, 2024 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
Are you a report card person? The digital age has ruined the trauma we used to feel with a good ol’ paper report card. Do you remember how the teacher would place that thick-papered official document in your hand at 2:48 on Friday afternoon and say, “Bring this back...
by Eddie Moody | Apr 11, 2024 | Christian Living, Leadership
The phrase “fear not” appears 158 times in the Bible. Fear is an emotional response to a real or perceived imminent threat; anxiety is the anticipation of a future threat. Left unchecked, it can wreck our lives. I have witnessed the damage of untamed fear. Long ago, I...
by Arista Teodozow | Apr 9, 2024 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
We have 13 critical years to meet kids where they are—to show up in the hard places, equip parents, and biblically lead children together—so they unmistakably recognize Jesus and hold fast to Him in every situation. Kids are asking important questions and seeking...
by D6 Family Ministry | Feb 20, 2024 | Christian Living
If blessed with a long life, there is a strong likelihood you will come to a point when your parents need some sort of care. This could range from complete nursing home care to occasional assistance. Generally, it will be somewhere in between. It is not uncommon...
by D6 Family Ministry | Feb 13, 2024 | Children's Ministry, Christian Living, Family Ministry, Parenting
As Christians, we often wrestle with questions concerning the state of our world and the role our faith plays out in our culture. Research shows we are gaining converts but losing influence. How do we influence the culture we live in when so many are opposed to our...
by D6 Family Ministry | Feb 6, 2024 | Parenting
As parents, we must ask ourselves, “What do our teens typically base their decision-making on: Feelings or Truth?” We must ask this question of ourselves as well and model healthy decision-making as best as we can. In our feelings-driven culture, biblical guidelines...
by D6 Family Ministry | Feb 1, 2024 | Parenting
Technology is constantly evolving in our culture. There will always be the next, best thing that grabs the attention of society, which brings unique challenges of how we are to deal with the ever-changing culture as our children are often very invested in these...
