Christian Grandparenting Blog

For many, when children marry and start having children of their own, the dynamics of familiar holiday traditions are forever altered. This is where you get to decide if you’re going to pine away for what used to be or try something different. 

Do you remember the rhyme, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me?” This defense, sung by children when someone hurls unkind words in their direction, is a lie. While words can curse, they can also bless. When we bless our children or grandchildren, we serve as a pipeline or conduit through which God pours out his acceptance and love.

If you are a grandparent intent on carrying out your role the way God designed it, no doubt you’ve come across Psalm 78. This article presents seven doable ways to share your testimony with your grandchildren.

There is an urgency for us to pray for our teenage grandchildren in our broken world. If you have teen grandchildren, you will find this blog helpful to pray and understand them.

All roads do not lead to heaven. The Bible teaches that there is no way to salvation except through Jesus Christ. When Jesus refers to himself as the way, the truth, and the life, he is giving us a better, more meaningful life through him than we could ever find on our own.

Anyone who thinks the Bible is boring hasn’t read the twelfth chapter of Acts. When we pray together as the Body of Christ, also known as corporate prayer, we are praying in conjunction with the spiritual discipline of fellowship.

My friend, Susan, was troubled by her visits with her grandchildren. It wasn’t chocolate cupcakes smashed into the carpet, crayon marks on the kitchen counter, or children’s voices reverberating through the house. The troubling part was she never had one-on-one time with any of her grandchildren. In order to create time with each grandchild, Susan enacted a “Grandchild of the Month” plan. Here's how she did it.

In today’s culture there is a new kind of family springing up all over our nation. It’s called, “Grandfamily”. When the opioid epidemic slammed the US, a new epidemic followed shortly thereafter: the Grandparent’s epidemic. Nearly 90 % of the grandfamilies today were created due to an addiction and it’s changing the structure of families globally. We need to share new and exciting dreams with these children.