Parenting By Way of Suffering and Prayer | Bud Burk
One significant means of drawing and sanctifying grace in children’s lives is suffering and their parent’s leadership in prayer through it. This session is designed in the context of large measures of suffering and pain in children’s lives, such as the death of a grandparent, a miscarriage of a sibling or diagnosis of cancer for a parent. These adversities and others like them are heart-shaping life-changing seasons. They are also sovereign opportunities granted by God for parents to point their children through tears and prayer to the One who has suffered in our place. Jesus knows…

Teaching Your Children God’s Design for Sex | Abby Schumacher
In this breakout session, Abby provides attendees with five strategies for building a Biblical worldview on sexuality into the hearts of their children. Attendees will leave empowered and equipped to have courageous conversations at home!

Grace Shaped Parenting | Sonya Anderson
Parents and children need to understand the impact and necessity of God’s grace in making us holy people. The “big story” of the Bible shows us how people constantly fail to obey God and follow His laws. But because of His incredible love for us, God did for us what we could never do for ourselves. Through Jesus’ death and resurrection, God not only forgives sin, but He breaks its power. Through His Holy Spirit, God makes real holiness possible for His children. This is grace. This seminar will focus on teaching children about grace through the “big story” of the Bible; helping parents lead their children to rely on grace for overcoming sin; and introducing spiritual disciplines to kids as a means of receiving God’s grace.

Core Truths of the Christian Faith: 6 Critical Conversations to Build Lifelong Faith | Josh Mulvihill
The Bible. Jesus. Marriage. Gender identity. Sexuality. Creation. Children will have questions about these topics. Have you prepared them for the good fight of faith in these areas of life? Do you know how to answer the questions they will have? Each of these topics has the potential to be faith-busters or faith-builders. This generation of young people must have a deeply rooted understanding of God’s truth and the ability to defend their Christian faith from attacks. If you are a parent, grandparent, pastor or educator, you are on the frontlines preparing children to have strong convictions and embrace the gospel. These topics will help you engage in conversations you might be hesitant to talk about, replace a child’s doubts with confidence in God, and address the most important subjects to develop a deep and lasting faith.

Family Missions: How to Serve Together | Holly Miller
All throughout scripture we find much encouragement in seeing how God designed the family unit. When families serve together in mission opportunities, it profoundly impacts their walk with Christ Jesus. Be resourced and encouraged as you learn about how you and your family can be a part of reaching the world for Christ together. This will enable your family to connect with each other on a deeper level, through living out the Gospel together.

How Does the Gospel Shape Sexual Intimacy in Marriage? | Larry McCall
In this seminar we will see what God says in His Word about His beautiful purposes for sexual intimacy in marriage. We will talk openly about the difficulties that arise because of sin – the sins that we’ve committed and the sins that have been committed against us. And, we’ll explore how the gospel help make sexual intimacy wonderful again!

Gospel-Shaped Family Worship | Micah McLellan
In this seminar you will learn how to read the Bible with your family and pray together so that you are able to fully convey the majesty and glory of God to future generations. It is critical for families to belong to a Bible-teaching, discipleship-oriented local church where young people learn to worship God, but it is also critically important to worship God as a family. This session will focus on the truth that God deserves to be worshiped daily in our homes. Practical tools will be suggested, using material from Dr. Don Whitney, Charles Spurgeon, and others.

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.