Christian Grandparenting Blog

Be your grandkids cheerleader. It is important for us to communicate our love to our grandkids. Send them a greeting card, email, give them a telephone call or you may want to text them, if they have a cell phone for Valentines Day. Grandkids love [...]

What does a “dog whisperer” have to do with effective grandparenting? Columnist Marcia Segelstein suggests in a 2009 article about the challenges facing today’s Christian parents that perhaps it has a lot to do with it. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by and at odds [...]

“A wicked messenger falls into trouble, But a trustworthy envoy brings healing.” Proverbs 13:17   Lord, I pray that You would allow my grandchild to faithfully deliver Your words of encouragement to those around him/her. Help him/her to see how speaking truth can heal a [...]

I grew up in a relatively small city in Wyoming where my father built a very positive reputation and name in that community. Almost anywhere I went as a young boy people knew my father and would say, “Oh, you’re Earl’s son!” Many years later [...]

“Hannah is not the primary character in the story. Nor is Samuel. Pivotal to the whole story, the central cohesive element, the linchpin, is God himself. Everything else—Hannah’s barrenness, Hannah’s prayer, Samuel’s birth—is the working out of God’s eternal agenda.”¹ In I Samuel 3:1 we [...]

“…and be thankful.” Colossians 3:15 Where there is a thankful heart, there is a content heart. In a time when our society and our kids have so much and it’s still not enough, we are faced with the challenge of how to figure out ways [...]

I know my parents and grandparents stood in the gap for me with prayer. When I was a child, it was a daily routine in the evening before bedtime to read the Bible and pray together. My grandmother lived with us and I remember my [...]

When a grandmother brought her grandson to GrandCamp several summers ago, she was concerned about her grandson’s spiritual welfare and determined to do all she could to give him a chance to know Christ. She was not going to allow her grandson to go through [...]