Christian Grandparenting Blog

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    Cavin Harper

    October 11, 2015

    Today’s blog is a departure from my usual weekly posts. I want to share with you a few exciting opportunities being developed at CGN to help raise up intentional, courageous grandparents who are showing their grandchildren what it means to know, love and serve Christ [...]

  • FlyRod Flies

    Cavin Harper

    September 27, 2015

    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 [...]

  • TEEN QUESTION

    Cavin Harper

    September 19, 2015

    “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 [...]

  • Happy Grandparents Day Sign

    Cavin Harper

    September 12, 2015

    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, especially you [...]

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    Cavin Harper

    September 3, 2015

    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 [...]

  • No Power

    Cavin Harper

    August 26, 2015

    “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 disappeared, would anything today be different in your life from [...]

  • LEGACY

    Cavin Harper

    August 21, 2015

    “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 worst school systems in [...]

  • Myth Reality

    Cavin Harper

    August 13, 2015

    “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. Children learn about sin from [...]