This article is an excerpt from upcoming book: Overflow by Kenny Luck. It was an annual tradition for our family, one I looked forward to the whole year long. So, in late November, I sent a text to a friend: Hey Elizabeth . . . my family is praying for a single...
The Role of Our Emotions In Our Realtionships and Faith
This couple's session was not going well. As Ken was getting elevated, his tone was shifting from calm to aggravated. “Seriously? You think that telling my mother ‘Sorry, not sorry’ about being late was appropriate?” “Well, she was the one who scheduled the outing for Gabby in the middle of...
What To Do When Fights Begin
The Desert Fathers and Mothers are deeply aware of how the desire to possess what God has not given us can divide us from one another: Two hermits lived together for many years without a quarrel. One said to the other, “Let’s have a quarrel with each other, as other...
A Podcast to Help You Navigate Conversations with Teens
So much has changed in the last decade for kids. For most of us, the life that we knew as teens is completely foreign compared to what our teens are facing today. With the introduction of social media, new technology, and changing social pressures, we as parents need all the...
The Many Methods of Raising Kingdom Kids
This article is an excerpt from Raising Kingdom Kids by Tony Evans. Because I’m a pastor, parents facing difficult situations in their homes or marriages regularly ask me how God is going to show up and transform whatever challenge they are in. My answer is always the same: “I don’t...
Parenting Lessons in the Dark
This article is excerpted from Raising Kingdom Kids by Tony Evans. I was born up north in Baltimore, Maryland, but Lois and I moved to Dallas so that I could attend seminary in the 1970s, and when we did, I discovered something I loved about Dallas—the heat. Another great thing...
Choosing Wise Parenting
This article is excerpted from Raising Kingdom Kids by Tony Evans. Life is full of decisions, and most of us are tired of making the wrong ones. As parents, some of us still feel the effects of poor choices we made in our youth, or even as adults. If you...
How Kids Are Sanctified By Prayer
Prayer is one of the most, if not the most, important things in the life of any believer. Now, we Christians love to talk about prayer. We love to hear people tell us about answered prayer. We thrill to the stories of great Christians from the past who had unbelievable...
Redeeming the Family Table
When our children were still living at home, the table served as the centerpiece for family life. We gathered there every evening, unless I was traveling, to not only eat, but to also experience life together. We read and discussed God’s Word, prayed, we talked, we told jokes. I used...
The Benefits of Corrective Discipline
This article has been excerpted from Raising Kingdom Kids by Tony Evans. Paul wrote, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). Discipline involves a number of things. It is not only a corrective influence in...