Christian Grandparenting Blog

  • Cavin Harper

    July 17, 2017

    By Gary Ericson When my wife and I were still very young and newly married, God brought an older couple into our lives who became our spiritual grandparents. As should be the case with grandparents, we learned a lot from those two. In fact, a [...]

  • Cavin Harper

    July 8, 2017

    Who doesn’t want to have the best possible relationship with their grandchildren? Most grandparents desperately want their grandchildren to like them and to want to spend time with them. Intentional grandparents, however, want even more… they want their grandkids to feel that being around grandma [...]

  • Cavin Harper

    June 18, 2017

    You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased. Luke 3:22 (NIV) The Big Story of reality begins in Genesis, chapter 1. Not only are we told that humans alone, among all of God’s creation in the universe, have been made [...]

  • Cavin Harper

    June 11, 2017

    What if every grandfather who claims to follow Christ understood the critical nature of the legacy, or inheritance, they are building for their grandchildren, and determined to proactively live it out? I believe the impact would be so huge it would rock entire nations. In [...]

  • Grandpa Manger Build

    Cavin Harper

    June 4, 2017

    With Father’s Day only two weeks away, I decided to focus my next few blogs specifically on grandfathering. To all you grandmothers out there, you can either ignore these next few posts, or you could ask your husbands to read them. So, ladies, I thank [...]

  • Thunderbirds

    Cavin Harper

    May 27, 2017

    Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. –James 1:4 I learned a new word this past week from my Finnish friends, Glenn and Sandra Havumaki. The word is “sisu”. This uniquely Finnish word is difficult to [...]

  • Baton Pass

    Cavin Harper

    May 14, 2017

    [It’s my pleasure to introduce you to Dr. Larry McCall, a new friend I met this year who has been such a blessing to me. I know he will be to you too. Larry is Founder and Director of Walking Like Jesus Ministries and author of [...]

  • Grandmother Granddaughter

    Cavin Harper

    May 11, 2017

    Her children rise and call her blessed… (Prov. 31:28)   There are grandmothers, and there are grand mothers. It doesn’t require a PhD to realize that were it not for the millions of faithful grandmothers in our lives who have graciously modeled Christlikeness to their [...]