129 archives found in"Culture, Grandchildren, Grandparents,"

When we reach the midlife years of our lives, we look forward to becoming grandparents. We’re very excited when our first grandchild and each one is born. However, today, many grandparents have broken hearts because they have been estranged from their grandchildren for various reasons. I [...]

Spiritual warfare is intense today as our grandchildren are growing up in the midst of a culture that is morally and spiritually depraved. In II Chronicles 20:15 we read “The battle isn’t ours, it’s the God’s”         When our grandchildren are [...]

Now we have approached the autumn season,  and I am reminded of my childhood, growing up on a wheat farm in Oklahoma. In the summer after the wheat harvest, my father would prepare the soil for the next year’s crop, and in the autumn, he would sow the wheat seed. We would wait for [...]

I am sure you have noticed that I am passionate about praying for my grandchildren in my writings. I recognize the critical moral and spiritual environment; my grandchildren and great-grandchildren must navigate in this world hostile to truth.  Recently Franklin Graham wrote, “Our [...]

I want to personally thank you for participating in the Grandparents Day of Prayer. I believe God will do amazing things in the lives of our dear grandchildren because grandparents united in prayer on National Grandparents’ Day, making it a special day of prayer throughout the world. Some of [...]

The National Grandparents Day is only six days away. Christian Grandparent’s Network is making it a Virtual Grandparents’ Day of Prayer amidst the pandemic. The Bible talks about the soldiers in King David’s army, the men of Issachar, it says they “understood the times and knew what Israel [...]

“It is only 14 days till National Grandparents Day on September 13. I heard it is going to be a Day of Prayer for Grandparents to pray for their grandchildren. Do you think my grandparents have heard about it?” To learn more about Grandparents’ Day of Prayer go to [...]

In John chapter 11, we read about Lazarus’s death, where Mary and Martha sent word to their dear beloved friend Jesus to let him know their brother to Lazarus had become very ill. They expected Jesus to come immediately to heal their brother, but he did not come. Disappointed, they wondered [...]

Why a Grandparents’ Day of Prayer?Where has time flown by? Many of our grandchildren will be heading off to school next month. Summer will be gone before we know it. We need to uphold them in prayer as the church is becoming less significant today in our everyday lives, a moral influence becomes [...]

In the book of Nehemiah, we meet a man of God with a broken heart because of his broken nation. He searched and sought evidence about its condition from people who had been there, seen its destruction, and the people who were in “great distress” living in the shadows of its rubble. [...]