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Parenting Your Strong Willed Child

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-09-16 /

Parenting a strong-willed child is often challenging and discouraging, and it can be hard to keep the long view in mind in the midst of temper tantrums and disobedience.  However, your strong willed child is not a mistake, and God can use them mightily for his purposes.  Parenting a strong willed child is not finding…

Helping Your Child Increase Their Self Control

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-09-16 /

Teaching our children impulse control is one of the ways we can help them grow in Christlikeness.  Proverbs 25:28 states, “A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.”  By teaching your kids how to control themselves, you are helping them learn how to resist the temptation to sin, persevere…

I’m A Christian. Do My Strengths Matter? Part 2

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-06-10 /

In our first post in this series, we looked at how to identify your strengths.  But how can Christians talk about their strengths without coming across as boastful? Christians often grapple with the idea of talking about their strengths. They are concerned about coming across as boastful or prideful, which goes against the humility we…

How to Address Existing Nepotism in a Family Business, Part 2

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-01-16 /

In the second part of our series on how to address existing nepotism, we look at steps you can take to remedy the problem and rebuild trust with employees.

How to Address Existing Nepotism in a Family Business, Part 1

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-01-16 /

Family businesses may engage in nepotism with the best of intentions to support and care for their families but can end up with many problems.  This blog post series discusses what to do if you realize that nepotism has already taken root in your business and how to rectify the situation, using four steps.

Having Difficult Conversations in Family Business

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-01-16 /

In this post, we delve into why tough conversations are essential to a healthy family business and how to have effective, fruitful conversations.

How to Help Children in a Divorce, Part 4

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-01-15 /

In our last post, we looked at how to help your child cope and process their emotions around a divorce.  Today, we will look at how to work with your co-parent and how you can disciple your children. Respecting your co-parent as another person made in God’s image, even if you have a broken or…

How to Help Children in a Divorce, Part 2

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-01-15 /

Our last post discussed how to talk to your child about a divorce.  We will look at how to help your children cope during and after a divorce. Children may feel many different emotions and respond differently to a divorce.  Some common emotions and ways you can help are: Only some emotions will likely be…

How to Help Children in a Divorce, Part 1

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-01-15 /

God hates divorce.  He intended that a couple would be married for life. We see in Scripture that a Biblical divorce can happen because of adultery or desertion(s). In over three decades of working with Christians, most of the time when a divorce happens, it is because one spouse doesn’t really believe the Gospel.  There…

How to Help Children in a Divorce, Part 3

By Ryan Bailey / 2024-01-15 /

In our last post, we looked at children’s common emotions around divorce and ways to help. One of the key ways to help children deal with the emotions and stress of a divorce is to help them identify, understand, and express their emotions.  As you do this, it can be helpful to remember that God…