Christian Grandparenting Blog

GRANDPAUSE: Hem your blessings with praise lest they unravel. –Unknown For two summers in a row, wild fire spread through another residential community in Colorado Springs. The Black Forest fire destroyed another five hundred homes, adding to the 347 homes destroyed by the Waldo Canyon [...]

GRANDPAUSE:When you pray, think of God both ways: as Father and as Daddy.Honor and emotion are a child’s responsibility and privilege. –David Jeremiah I remember growing up watching the popular TV series called Father Knows Best on our black and white TV. As a child [...]

“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” —Ps. 23:1 Quoting this verse to her parents, one young child expressed a perspective many of us miss. She said the verse this way: “The Lord is my Shepherd, what else could I want?” What else [...]

Grandparents Day of Prayer – September 9, 2012   South Hills Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, OK By Barbara Prichard We had a wonderful time in our time of prayer and much was gained by the reception for our grandparents. David Gibson, our pastor to seniors [...]

Suggestions for Getting Involved with Grandparents Day of Prayer: Ask your pastor and/or Senior Adult Ministry pastor to make an announcement challenging grandparents to pray for their grandchildren on Sept. 7. Order “Grandparents Day of Prayer” promotional bookmarks to distribute at your church and to [...]

GRANDPAUSE: “Tell the next generations the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power and he wonders he has done…” Psalm 78:4 A legacy is a gift or inheritance that lives on after we are gone. As grandparents, God intends for us to leave something that [...]

GRANDPAUSE: “Be careful, then, how you live – not as unwise, but as wise – making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.” (Eph. 5:15-16) Perhaps you remember the 2008 TV commercial about ‘rollover minutes’ on a cell phone plan. A mother [...]

The late Bob Benson, author, itinerate preacher and co-founder of Benson Records, wrote about the house he and his wife built to raise their family. He describes how, in the autumn years of life when the children were grown and gone, they would often reminisce [...]