Category: Family
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Seven Ways a Wife Can Cultivate Her Marriage
Our guest contributor today is my dear wife Sarah J. Najapfour (BA in English Literature, University of the Fraser Valley). She is a stay-at-home mom. She taught at Cascade Christian School in Chilliwack, British Columbia, and Plymouth Christian High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is co-author of Amazing Grace, the first part of the…
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10 Ways to Encourage Our Young Children to Maintain Sexual Purity
Note: This week we have Dr. Rebecca Huizen, D.O. as our guest contributor. She is a pediatrician at Christian Healthcare Centers, a distinctively Christian membership-based primary care medical office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She and her husband Scott have four children and they work together to homeschool. ________________________________ 1. Start talking to your children early about biblical…
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Teaching Your Kids to Fight against Anxiety
Note: This week we have Dr. Rebecca Huizen, D.O. as our guest contributor. She is a pediatrician at Christian Healthcare Centers, a distinctively Christian membership-based primary care medical office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She and her husband Scott have four children and they work together to homeschool. ____________________ Every child’s battle with anxiety looks different.…
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How Are You?
Note: This week our guest contributor is Marie Sweezer, a wife and mother of two living children. She and her husband Jordan lost their daughter, Katherine (Katie) Grace, shortly after she was born on June 15, 2018 at 37 weeks. I recently visited them and was so blessed by this couple’s testimony, who, even as…
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My Father-in-law’s Advice to Me
I’m blessed to have a godly and wise father-in-law, Rev. Bartel Elshout, who is known for his translation of Wilhelmus à Brakel’s The Christian’s Reasonable Service. I so much value his wisdom in that whenever I need to make an important decision I always seek his counsel. Recently, I asked him if there’s any advice…
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Steps for Personal and Family Revival
Pray the prayer of the psalmist: “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting” (Ps. 139:23-24). Be totally honest as you answer each question. Agree with God about each need He reveals…
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A Father’s Regret
One of the most common things that fathers regret before they die is this: “I worked too much and did not spend enough time with my family.” God wants us to work diligently to provide for our family. But when we work at the expense of our relationship with our family, our work becomes harmful…
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Adam: His Wedding, Work, & Woe (Part 2 of 3)
Adam’s Work “The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it” (Gen. 2:15). Adam’s work is two-fold as far as his role as a husband is concerned. First, God has placed Adam in the garden in order for Adam to provide for his wife.…
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An Interview with Brian Croft about his book The Pastor’s Family: Shepherding Your Family Through the Challenges of Pastoral Ministry. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013, 171 pp., paperback.
It was a joy to meet you at the 2013 Puritan Reformed Conference. I enjoyed reading your practical and gospel-centered book. I especially appreciated its humble and honest tone. Here are some of my questions for you about your book: 1. How would you respond to a pastor who says that his ministry is his…
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Five Lessons from Our Daughter Anna
Our child Anna has already taught me and my wife many lessons. A few of them are: To marvel more at God’s creative power. Watching Anna grow in the womb, and even now as she develops by leaps and bounds each month, makes us stand in awe of the miracle of life. To be…
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