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Birthday Trips: The Best Parenting Decision We’ve Ever Made
Discipleship

Birthday Trips: The Best Parenting Decision We’ve Ever Made

This year is the tenth anniversary of one of, if not the best parenting decision we’ve ever made. After reading a book called “Raising A Modern Day Knight” and talking with a family friend who had done something similar with their kids, we decided that for our kids’ birthdays we were going to focus…

Discipleship

The WHY Behind Modesty

Recently, my wife and I had a heated conversation with our daughters about modesty. It was all born out of our personal parental standard that we don’t let our girls wear a bikini as a swimsuit. Please hear me, that we do not condemn anyone who wears a bikini or allows their girls to wear one, it is…

Discipleship

I Love My Kids More Than God Does

This past Sunday at Element Church we continued our sermon series called “Confessions Of A Pastor”. This week’s confession was “More often than not I feel like a failure as a parent.” That while I love my kids, I don’t always love the way I parent them. I preached from the story of Samson in Judges…

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Six Reasons My Kids Hate Me That I’m Ok With

Maybe hate ME is un-warranted, but these are definitely six things my kids hate that I do…but I’m ok with it and you should be too. I’m writing this from a place of frustration and also a place of fear. The fear is born out of the growing darkness that is being made available and accessible to our c…