Christian Grandparenting Blog
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cavin Harper
August 7, 2015
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 seeming endless media accounts of violence [...]
Cavin Harper
August 1, 2015
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 [...]
Cavin Harper
July 25, 2015
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, I’ve heard that statement many times from the grandchildren [...]
