Why Family Sundays?
Every year in Kids City (our elementary area at Bent Tree), we have Family Sundays that are sprinkled throughout the year. These Sundays typically fall on holiday weekends and Sundays where we have...
View ArticleAre Kids Sports Bad?
There’s a huge emphasis on kids’ activities these days. My 94-year-old Granny complains every time I talk to her about how busy we are. “In her day, everyone stayed home … ” I think she also walked...
View ArticleThe Parenting Secret Nobody Tells You
We make jokes about how there is an owner’s manual for everything we buy, but they send us home from the hospital with a baby and no further instructions other than feed him, love him and change his...
View ArticleLeveraging Your Child’s Activities
We are busy. Often, our kids are just as busy. Over the years, my daughters have been a part of different organizations. One thing I have found is that I can choose to engage fully in the experience...
View ArticleBaptism
Depending on how you grew up, baptism may mean a lot to you or not much at all. In a Bible church, we have so many different church backgrounds and with those backgrounds comes different ways of...
View Article5th Grade Parent Big Look Forward
No matter how old you are, transitions are hard. As adults, we get the benefit of experience in how to deal with them, but our kids are often blindsided when they occur. Sometimes they are a welcome...
View ArticleTeam
In this day and age, we hear the word “team” a lot. Our kids no longer sit at individual desks, they sit at a table with others. Many of us work on projects with teammates instead of by ourselves....
View ArticleMuffins with Mom/Donuts with Dad
Have you ever picked your child up from church and asked them what they learned that morning? You might have gotten the answer we, as parents dread,“I dunno.” This month, we have two opportunities...
View ArticleThese are the Words I Would Say
If you’re like me, you probably regret some of the words that come out of your mouth, especially some of those directed at your children. I do a great job of correcting my daughters, but I’m not as...
View ArticleWhy we don’t do Sunday School
Every Sunday, we have more than 600 kiddos who enter our building. Many of these kids belong to parents who think they are dropping them off for Sunday school. But we don’t do Sunday school at Bent...
View ArticleLeading Your Family Spiritually
Before I had kids, I had all these great pictures in my head of what I thought leading them spiritually would look like. Then, they were born. I was sleep-deprived and at my wit’s end figuring out how...
View Article5th Grade Graduation | 2014
Get in the Middle of It Do you remember when you were making plans to head off to middle school? I had to think hard about it. But I then I remembered being fearful, yet excited about what was to come....
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