Family Leadership

What Twelve Stones Teach a Household About Remembering

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-10-17 /

A household remembers what it can see, so God told Israel to stack stones where their children would ask about them. Picture your kitchen counter on a Saturday morning: a calendar, a stack of mail, a few school forms, a coffee mug. Everything the week demands is visible, and nothing there yet records what God…

You Can Carry Your Parents Because You Are Carried

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-10-10 /

God carries the one who is carrying, which means you can care for an aging parent without carrying it alone. You may be the person in your family who now gets the phone call: an appointment to arrange, a house getting harder to manage, a parent who needs more than they will ask for. Have…

The Family Ritual That’s Become A Chore Instead Of A Gift

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-10-03 /

The same grace before dinner, the same Bible reading plan, going to the same Church, can get repeated so many times it started to feel like one more box to check. Moses had a different word for that kind of repetition. He called it sharpening. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What is CHEW? â€” a 30-second practice…