Discipline: Parenting from Law to Grace | Marty Machowski
When your toddler reaches for a cup of hot coffee on the table, you bring the law to bear and say “No!” command. Then you use your physical strength if needed to block any persistent attempts. But it doesn’t work so well to order your teens around with the same “No!” You also can’t restrain a teen intent on disobedience like a toddler who insists on doing wrong. Somewhere along the line your authority must give way to influence, your commands to conversation, and application of law to an introduction of the gospel. Knowing how to make this transition is one of the most important lessons parents will ever learn.
Intentional, Christ-Centered Parenting: Practical Ways to Instill Christ and the Word into the Hearts of our Children | Jake Mulvihill
God has given parents a special season to maximize with children in the home. As parents help their children prepare for and run the race of life intended by their Creator, intentional parenting, a biblical vision, and maximizing the opportunities God brings are key. Come explore the God-given means and six practical parenting tools that can be used to shape and foster a biblical worldview and point children to know and love God.
Allies or Adversaries: A Practical Guide to Strengthen the Parent and Adult Children Relationship | Cavin Harper
One of the most frequent concerns expressed by grandparents, centers around their relationships with their adult children. We all want a strong ally relationship with our adult children, but it can often feel more like an adversary than ally relationship. What do we do when there is an adversarial situation, and how do we maintain a strong ally relationship when we’ve been blessed with that situation? This workshop unpacks some practical, biblical principles to address both questions.
Grow Down: How to Root Students Deeply in Their Faith | Ken Castor
Don’t grow up!! To “adulterate” something means to corrupt it with “an inferior substance.” Isn’t there another way to encourage young people to grow in our culture today? Drawing from the Bible’s picture of discipleship, Ken will be leading a very interactive workshop that visualizes what it looks like to root into Jesus, to stand tall in him, and to overflow with his abundant life.
Treasuring Jesus in Parental Weakness: Less of You Means More of Him | Gil McConnell
As parents we feel weak and insufficient. If we don’t, we don’t understand the high call of parenting. But our weaknesses set us up for experiencing Jesus’ strength, and in fact, more of Jesus himself. Come lay down your burdens and learn to treasure him more.
Training Young People to be an Overcomer in High School, College, and Beyond | David Wheaton
David Wheaton explains why as many as 50% of professing Christian students say they have lost their faith after four years in college, gives a scouting report on the three Pillars of Peril on campus, and offers parents and grandparents a practical and biblical game plan for training sons and daughters to be overcomers.
Don’t Leave Your Worldview in the Driveway: How God Uses Families to Overcome His Opponents | Jeff Evans
Developing a strong Christian worldview is essential but it is not enough if we leave it parked in the driveway. We need to put our Christian worldview into gear and joyfully drive it everywhere as a family. Families that believe God’s Word from their head to their toes and seek to live out the gospel in every family relationship not only have more potential for cultural horsepower than God’s rivals, they are also position by God’s design to take on worldly strongholds: “your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies” (Gen 22:17); “Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes” (Ps 8:2); “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.” (Ps 127:4). This session will interact with your questions on how the gospel lived out faithfully in families helps flank the cultural battles in front of us.
