Christian Grandparenting Blog

As I was thinking about Halloween coming up at the end of this month, I started thinking of jack-o-lanterns, costumes, masks, etc. Children have a good time deciding who they are going to be and what they will wear as they go trick or treating [...]

“If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it…but even if He does not, we want you to know…” Daniel 3:17-18 Charles Krauthammer, a non-religious Jew writing in a 1998 Time magazine article, wrote that [...]

From Grandmother, Candyce Trew, Melbourne, FL… As I was searching my bookshelves for a reference book to help me with a Bible study I was facilitating. A red hardbound book distracted me with my grandmother’s name embossed in gold on the binder. I had not [...]

As we are in the autumn season, I was reminded of my childhood, growing up on a wheat farm in Oklahoma. In the summer after the wheat harvest, my father would prepare the soil for the next year’s harvest and in the autumn, he would [...]

Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in Your truth;give me an undivided heart that I may fear Your name. Psalm 86:11 Several weeks ago we looked at the ten percent unshakable belief factor that determines what belief system a particular society [...]

Have you thought about praying for the many adults who influence your grandchildren? Are the adults involved in your grandchildren’s lives good role models? Adults who have influence on them may be their other grandparents, teachers, principal, coaches, carpool or bus drivers, Sunday school teachers, [...]

“I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” Ephesians 4:1 Have you seen the t-shirt that reads, Grandpa’s To-Do List:1) Load up grandkids with sugar; 2) Send them home? While it is humorous, this caricature of grandparenting is, sadly, [...]

“The righteous man is cautious in friendship,For the way of the wicked leads them astray”(Proverbs 12:26). The friends of our grandchildren can have a great impact on their lives especially when they get to school and in their teenage years. Their peers and education influence [...]