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Rose-Colored Glasses or God-Glasses? by Joey and Carla Link ©March 2016 In case you’re wondering, it is normal for kids (especially when they hit the early teen years), to put on rose-colored glasses and do things that just don’t make sense. Your boys take off on a bike ride with their friends without asking permission.…

Celebrating Easter  Joey & Carla Link        © March 2016  Spring is just around the corner, although for many of us, the normal winter weather has yet to appear! While Christmas is a wonderful time to teach our children about the blessed gift of Jesus Christ, families often get caught off-guard in the springtime, and…

Quality Time or Quantity Time        Joey & Carla Link        © March 2016 What is more important, to spend quality time or quantity time with you kids? This question has been around for years. We can make a case for both, but we are fairly certain you can too so we aren’t going to…

Does Your Child Have A GPS? Joey and Carla Link February 2016   As a young man in boy scouts, I learned to read maps as we went backpacking in the High Sierra Mountains. It was essential to know which trail to take to get to our destination. Today, reading and learning to interpret maps…

FINGERPRINTS BY JOEY & CARLA LINK February 2016 I was watching a police drama show on television and was intrigued by how the police were so focused on fingerprinting an entire crime scene to determine who had been there to solve the crime. I got to thinking what kind of fingerprints have we left on…

Parents’ Warning Signs   by Joey & Carla Link January 2016   We were driving home from a ministry trip to the East Coast and after driving through several toll booths, I saw a bright yellow pedestrian sign warning drivers as they went through the toll booths to be careful of pedestrians. I thought they must…

Teaching Your Kids to Obey the Government by Joey & Carla Link January 2016 We flew into Los Angeles Airport and caught the bus to get our rental car. As the driver was taking us to the rental car location, he was being flagged down by another customer and his young family. The bus driver…

Teaching Your Children to Wait by Joey and Carla Link November, 2015   “I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait, and in His word do I hope.” Psalm 130:5 Oh how hard it is to wait, is it not, especially if what you are waiting for is something you really, really want. We…

TRUST = OBEDIENCE Joey and Carla Link November 2015   Do your kids trust you? Have you ever thought about that? When I (Joey) look back on our parenting, I think I assumed our kids trusted Carla and I, but I am not sure I ever wondered if they did. I know we worked hard…

Helping Your Kids Hear God’s Voice Joey & Carla Link September 2015 I often think about Adam and Eve walking in the garden and talking with God. WOW, what would that have been like?! After sin entered the world, things changed. Christians will often say they can’t hear God speaking to them. Does God still speak…