The message of The Rainy Day Book is that when it rains, you can still walk-and even dance-through life with a smile on your face . . . God hasn't promised a trouble-free life without storms and challenges. But He has promised to provide the grace and strength to live life with a smile on your f... (more)

What impact should Jesus' resurrection have on individuals and churches? Popular Christian blogger and teacher Adrian Warnock urges Christians not to neglect the implications of the resurrection. Jesus truly is alive today. But compared to his atoning death, Jesus' resurrection sparks relatively ... (more)

Raising a good kid -- even knowing what makes a "good" kid -- can be terrifying because it is so important to us and because so many things can go wrong. John Smith has spent decades with kids and their parents. He knows what it takes to raise a good kid. He knows there isn't an owner's manual. Most... (more)

What does it mean to be a man? Moreover, how does a father instill these qualities in his son? Using as an example the process by which a boy moved through the medieval stages of knighthood, author Robert Lewis identifies parallel stages for today's fathers to create ceremonies to commemorate signif... (more)

When the light of the gospel enters the soul it brings with it a supernatural power that radically transforms the whole of life. This change is perhaps no more clearly seen than in the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children. Our age has witnessed an almost total collapse of t... (more)

All parents will tell you they learn as much from their children as their children learn from them. This truth is poignantly captured in Raising Dad: What Fathers & Sons Learn from Each Other by father-son authors Thom and Art Rainer. It was Art’s idea to write from a grown child’s perspective th... (more)

Sometimes greatness is measured by possessions or power and parents become preoccupied with raising "resume" and "pedigree" children. Yet true greatness is an internal evidence of attitudes and a heart known for humility, compassion, graciousness, and enthusiasm. Author and speaker Dr. Tim Kimmel id... (more)