Family & Home How to Hold a Family Council That Actually Works A family council is not a staff meeting in matching sweatshirts. It’s a chance to slow down, listen to each other, and let the gospel shape the small decisions that make up a home. Updated August 2026 · 13 min read Picture a … Read more
Family & Home How to Prepare Your Child for Baptism: A Parent’s Guide The night before my daughter turned eight, she worried aloud that the water would be cold. That turned out to be the simplest question of the whole weekend. The goal is simple. Let them put into their own words why Jesus Christ … Read more
Family & Home How to Have Natural Gospel Conversations with Teens I spent two years giving my teenage daughter excellent gospel lectures she never once asked for. What finally worked was embarrassingly simple: I stopped scheduling the talks and started catching the ones she was already trying to have — usually in the car, usually … Read more
Family & Home Family Dinner Traditions That Bring Everyone Together For years our family dinner was a refueling stop — plates down, heads down, gone in eleven minutes. What turned it into the best hour of our day wasn’t better cooking. It was a handful of small rituals repeated so many times the kids would … Read more
Family & Home Making the Sabbath Day Meaningful: Simple Ideas For years my Sundays felt like Saturdays with a church meeting in the middle — same rush, same noise, same low-grade exhaustion, just with nicer clothes. What changed wasn’t a stricter list of rules. It was a handful of small decisions, mostly made on Saturday, … Read more
Family & Home Family Home Evening Ideas for Young Children Family home evening with kids under ten is not a fireside. It’s thirty minutes of controlled chaos with a song, a five-minute lesson, an activity, and a treat — and if you keep it simple and repeatable, it quietly becomes one of the best things … Read more