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Family Ministry: PROOF Pirates Book and Vacation Bible School Material

6th November 2015

Chore charts. Report cards. Standardized tests. Athletic banquets. Kids are inundated with messages about their performance. Because performance—work and reward—is one of the basic structures of our lives, kids often grow up thinking, “I am what I am because of what I do . . . or because of what I’ve failed to do.” How […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, PROOF, Video Tagged With: family ministry, PROOF, Vacation Bible School

Family Ministry: What If Your Child Is Far More Than Your Child?

12th October 2015

An excerpt from my recent book, co-edited with Dr. John David Trentham, Practical Family Ministry

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry Tagged With: christian family, family ministry

Practical Family Ministry: A Book I’m Not Embarrassed to Beg You to Buy

21st September 2015

You may have noticed that I have a new book out that I co-edited with my colleague Dr. John David Trentham. In Practical Family Ministry, we’ve brought together several practitioners to provide you with a plethora of practical ideas to strengthen your church’s family ministry. Sometimes, I’m hesitant to ask you to purchase a book that I’ve written […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, Uncategorized Tagged With: family ministry

Family Ministry: Three Truths and Three Tips for Engaging with Families in Your Church

16th September 2015

The animated feature The Incredibles is a favorite movie in our household—and one of our favorite scenes is the family meal early in the film. Dinner at the Parr household has deteriorated into pandemonium. The infant squeals in delight at the chaos as two siblings engage in super-powered combat. A frazzled mom strains unsuccessfully to […]

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Filed Under: Family Ministry, Lead Tagged With: family ministry

Family Ministry: The D6 Conference Celebrates Six Years

13th October 2014

D6 launched its first family ministry conference in 2009. Six years later, the D6 Conference has developed into a global community of leaders who are forming the future of family ministry. I’ve been privileged to partner with D6 since 2010, championing an environment where the church and home work together to shape the next generation. […]

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Filed Under: Video Tagged With: D6, family ministry

Family Ministry: Join Me for Free Dinner and Family Ministry Forum at D6 Conference in Louisville

28th September 2014

Are you planning to attend the D6 Conference in Louisville? While you’re enjoying D6 Louisville, the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism, and Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary wants: * to take you to dinner, * to provide you with transportation to and from dinner, * to give you an opportunity to receive […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, In the News, Learn Tagged With: D6, family ministry

Family Ministry: The First Step Toward Launching Your Church’s Family Ministry

20th August 2014

Strangely enough, the hardest first step toward family-equipping ministry for most churches is not an organizational step. The hardest step and the first step, when a church catches the vision for family ministry, is to draw the staff together to make sure that the staff is doing, in their homes, what they’re going to ask […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: family, family ministry

Family Ministry: How a Biblical Worldview Shapes the Way We Teach Our Children

1st August 2014

To have a biblical worldview is to interpret every aspect of our lives—including our relationships with children—within the framework of God’s story. At the center of God’s story stands this singular act: In Jesus Christ, God personally intersected human history and redeemed humanity at a particular time in a particular place. Yet this central act […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn Tagged With: apologetics, family ministry, Parenting

Leadership: Three Crucial Priorities for Shepherd Leaders

30th July 2014

This post adapted and abridged from The God Who Goes Before You, by Michael S. Wilder and Timothy Paul Jones (Nashville: B&H, forthcoming). ________ A couple of years ago, an individual who thought he might be called to pastoral ministry informed me, “I love to teach, and I want to preach—but I can’t stand people.” […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead, Serve Tagged With: family ministry, leadership, pastoral ministry

Family Ministry: Learning to Do Less So That Parents Can Do More

28th July 2014

Parents in your ministry don’t have time to disciple their children—or, at least, that’s the way many of them feel when they look at their weekly to-do lists. According to recent research in the field of family ministry, half of all church-involved parents have simply resigned themselves to the notion that their families are too […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead Tagged With: family ministry

Family Ministry: In Praise of Inefficiency

24th July 2014

I saw something beautiful the other day while walking down Breckenridge Lane. In a front yard not far from my home, a young mother was removing a layer of leftover leaves from the fall in preparation for planting spring flowers—an ordinary activity in the middle of an ordinary day. What was extraordinary about this scene […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead Tagged With: family ministry, G.K. Chesterton, leadership, parenthood

Family Ministry: Three Motivations to Avoid

9th April 2014

Jason K. Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, has written recently on various facets of parenting. He encourages parents to avoid three specific motivations: ambition, fear and pride. He concludes: Parenting is the most enjoyable and exhilarating responsibility I know. I feel as though I am getting to create, invest, sculpt, build, and nurture […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead, Serve Tagged With: family, family ministry, Jason Allen, Parenting

Family Ministry: Training to Launch Your Church’s Family Ministry

2nd April 2014

  Have you ever wondered how to promote a family ministry model in your church? Perhaps you’re just curious about what family ministry is all about. Whether you’re ready to dive in or just testing the waters, RightNow Media and I have partnered together to provide a practical online course to help those who might […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead, Serve Tagged With: christian family, family, family ministry, gospel

Family Ministry: How Paul’s Teachings About the Family Apply Today

31st March 2014

Not long ago, I shared with Christianity.com some thoughts about how Christians can apply Paul’s teaching in their homes. Paul established a priority-changing paradigm for marriages and families in Ephesians 5 and 6. He invited parents to view their task not simply as behavioral management but as gospel proclamation, viewing their children not only as […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead, Serve Tagged With: Apostle Paul, Ephesians, family, family ministry, gospel, New Testament

Family Ministry: How Pastors Can Care for Their Children

24th March 2014

Chap Bettis, executive director of The Apollos Project, previously wrote on ways in which church members can participate in the task of helping pastors shepherd their children. In a recent post, he directly engages pastors and offers practical ways to help them guard their children from church burnout and instill in them a love for the gospel […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead, Solve Tagged With: christian family, family, family ministry, pastor kids, pastoral ministry

Family Ministry: Caring for Your Pastor’s Kids

18th March 2014

  Chap Betts, executive director of The Apollos Project, provides a grace-saturated way to encourage your pastor and minister to his children. He states: “Too many children of pastors are casualties in the spiritual battle. After seeing the inner workings of the church, many do not want anything to do with the Lord or his people. […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead, Serve Tagged With: family, family ministry, pastor, pastor kids, pastoral ministry

Family Ministry: Growth, Retention, and Gospel-Motivated Ministry

10th February 2014

Sometimes, when a ministry makes much of Jesus and the gospel, the results do include numeric gains or stellar retention rates. Seven weeks after Jesus erupted alive from a garden tomb, three thousand women and men confessed Jesus as the risen Lord, and the congregation still kept growing (Acts 2:41–47). Before long, well over five […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead, Serve Tagged With: church growth, family, family ministry, gospel, youth ministry

Family Ministry: Family Discipleship in the Middle Ages and Reformation

20th January 2014

With the dawning of imperial favor in the early fourth century and the crumbling of the Roman Empire in the fifth, the primary locus of Christian practice drifted from homes to dedicated institutional structures. Especially in the early Middle Ages, there appears to have been a loss of the ancient model for discipleship in families. […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: christian family, church history, discipleship, family, family ministry, history

Family Ministry: An Ancient Christian Perspective on Family Ministry

13th January 2014

  This model for family ministry not only began before Paul’s generation but also persisted far beyond the lifetimes of the first followers of Jesus. Didache and Letter of Barnabas provide summaries of Christian practices that date to the first and second centuries A.D. Both of these writings include an identical command for parents—a command […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: christian family, church history, family, family ministry

Family Ministry: Building a Biblical Model for Your Church’s Family Ministry

30th December 2013

So what does it mean to build a family ministry model for your church? And how can we be certain our model is biblical? Taking a moment to consider the meaning of a “model” in other fields of study may be helpful here. In other fields of study, a model must meet three criteria: (1) […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Lead, Serve Tagged With: christian family, family, family ministry

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