Teaching Your Kids to UNDERSTAND (Rather Than Fear) Sin
by Beth Nyhart Christian parents have a lot on their plate. There’s the everyday responsibilities of keeping a child alive, loved, educated, and set up for adulthood. But above all, we carry the weight of responsibility to make sure they know the truth of the gospel...
Helping Our Kids to See God… When They Can’t Actually SEE Him
The other night, as I was tucking my five-year-old son into bed, I was encouraging him to pray. He asked Jesus into his heart nearly a year ago and has such a passion for studying the Bible, but he still struggles with the concept of prayer. And I have to admit, this...
Congratulations! You’ve defended the Bible. Now what do you do with it?
Typically when I go to different venues to speak or teach, I begin by explaining the importance of being able to defend your faith. I illustrate the kinds of questions that we as Christians must be prepared to answer. We are in a time where we can’t just quote...
Motherhood: More Important than Rocket Science (according to Cathryn Buse!)
Why would a successful engineer leave NASA to be a mom, and apologist, and now a #mamabear apologist? Share on XI graduated valedictorian from a nationally ranked International Baccalaureate high school. I finished summa cum laude with a bachelor’s and master’s degree...
Dear Mrs. Wilson… A Letter from a Middle School Girl to Her Science Teacher
I’ve often said that we don’t give kids nearly enough credit for what they are capable of. As Barna’s research has shown, dumbing down the Christian message into a hollow, shallow, bumper sticker confession of faith is not making Christ’s...
Way #1–The Most Important Connection Your College Freshman Can Make
In my blog post “Top Ten Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus,” I promised individual posts on each way with resources and action steps to help you accomplish spiritual preparation. Here’s number one. I remember it like it was...
Top 10 Ways to Spiritually Prepare Your College Freshman for Campus–An Overview
If you are the mom of a soon-to-be-college freshman, hang on. You will survive. But the more important question might be—will your child survive spiritually? Even if he or she has checked all the boxes associated with growing up in the church? I have walked in your...
The Importance of Incorporating Rejection Into Our Children’s Worldviews
In the previous post, we discussed the necessity of teaching our kids that suffering is not evidence against God, but rather a part of living in a fallen and broken world. Jesus did not come to save us from everything in the world, at least not at the present time....
The Importance of Incorporating Suffering Into Our Children’s Worldviews
A coherent, Christian worldview anticipates the storms of life. In interacting with people who have walked away from the faith, I have uncovered three main themes that were not integrated with their view of Christ in a healthy way. Thus, when the storms came, these...
Don’t Believe the Lie – You ARE Smart Enough!
I was recently interacting with a young man on Facebook who is part of the crowd that my husband and I ran with back in Dallas. He was obviously struggling with a lot of stuff and (with my husband in the room and with his full knowledge) I started up a conversation...
Soapbox Alert: Teaching Apologetics To Your Children
I had the pleasure of attending a conference this weekend on the topic of the reliability and historicity of the documents of the New Testament. At the conference, I heard a story that really got my goat though. I was told that there were some in the Christian...
