Christian Grandparenting Blog

Travis is a good friend and an avid, skilled fly-fisherman. I’m not much a fisherman myself, but I do enjoy an occasional trip to the mountains to try my hand at it. So Travis took me out one time to show me some of the basics of fly-fishing....

“Teach me Your way, O Lord, and I will walk in Your truth…”  Ps. 86:11a I remember a story not long ago about a student who was told by his principal and two teachers at his middle school that he was not allowed to wear a...

Today is National Grandparents’ Day in the United States. In lieu of my regular blog, I want to use this opportunity to acknowledge the vital role you play as a grandparent and bless you: May you receive the honor and praise due you,...

You may never be a perfect grandparent, but you can be a praying grandparent! Even our Lord made prayer a regular habit. Prayer was important enough to Him that He even taught His disciples how to pray as well. So, if prayer is important enough...

“I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone…” I Timothy 2:1 My pastor once asked the question, “if tomorrow every reference to prayer in the Bible mysteriously...

“Even when I am old and gray…I will declare Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.”  Psalm 71:18 In 2007 Michelle Rhee became Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, one of the...

“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” I John 1:8 Speaking out in a young marrieds’ Sunday School class, one new mother adamantly declared, “I believe children are born good....

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity [fear], but of power, of love and of self-discipline.2 Timothy 1:7 About this you can be certain—these are uncertain times. Whether we’re talking about politics, economics, morality or the...

Listen my son to a father's instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. (Prov. 4:1) Forty-five years ago I became a father for the first time. At age 22 I was as green and wet behind the ears as you can get when it came to being a father. I...

GrandPause: Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength… (Isa. 40:31) “I just want to keep coming to GrandCamp forever,” eight year-old Kate shared with me. Now in our seventeenth year of GrandCamp® programs,...