Christian Grandparenting Blog

GRANDPAUSE: As iron sharpen iron, so one man sharpens another. Prov. 27:17 If you have ever watched an experienced blacksmith perform his trade, you cannot escape the power of iron sharpening iron. From the furnace a red-hot strap of iron is pulled, laid on an [...]

It’s not uncommon to hear people talk about wanting to change the world—whatever that may mean. The truth is that change happens when hearts are changed, one heart at a time. That’s the lesson of A Call to Grandparenting: Lessons Learned on Papa’s Pond by [...]

  “Your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.” Matt. 18:14 Three years ago Anders Breivik at a summer camp in Oslo, Norway senselessly and savagely murdered sixty-nine people, mostly children. He did it to make a [...]

  The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. James 5:16 There was a saying among Jews that “he who prays surrounds his house with a wall stronger than iron.” James says much the same thing. There is power and great effect because [...]

“The Father is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.”  Matt. 18:14 I’ve often said that one of my heroes of the faith is a man named Caleb–a man willing to risk it all because he believed God. I love how [...]

  From 1854 to 1929 Orphan Trains transported nearly 200,000 destitute children, mostly from Boston and New York, to families across America. Most of them were immigrant children orphaned, abandoned or neglected by their families. When the train arrived at a train stop or station, [...]

“Whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.”  Matt. 18:5 Effective parenting and grandparenting requires intentionality. God laid down this challenge through the prophet Jeremiah—Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths; ask where the good way is, [...]

Do you ever wish that you could be more noticed… that when you walk into a room people know who you are and immediately engage with you? If the truth were known, most of us likely have secret fantasies about standing out in the crowd [...]