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When a Grandchild Acts Aggressively: Setting Boundaries with Wisdom and Love
Healthy families create healthy culture. That belief sits at the center of everything we do, teach, and talk about. Family is often where growth begins—but it’s also where concerns surface most clearly. One question we recently received touches on a situation many grandparents quietly wrestle with:
Reconnecting When Parenting Feels All-Consuming
In this Famology blog, Jonny and Amy Claussen share why reconnecting as parents starts with prioritizing marriage. Through honest stories, practical rhythms, and spiritual insight, they encourage couples to shift from busyness to intentional connection—finding rest, security, and health for the whole family.
How to Define Your Family Identity: Three Foundational Questions Every Family Should Ask
In this episode of FAMology, Jon and Amy Claussen explore how family identity—also known as family culture—is formed and passed down through generations. They unpack three key questions that help families live with intention instead of comparison:
What do you want to pass on to the next generation?
What has your family been gifted in?
What is God teaching your family right now?
This encouraging conversation invites families to slow down, attach joy to what matters most, and discover the unique purpose God has placed on their home.
How Did You Know? Discerning the One God Has for You
Marriage isn’t about finding someone who completes you or fulfills every need. Only God does that. Marriage is about walking alongside someone He’s chosen to run with you—to build, serve, and love together.
There Is No Hurry: Rethinking Teen Dating
Today, our kids are exposed to more information, more stimulation, and more adult themes than ever before—but exposure does not equal maturity. Experience alone does not prepare a teenager to handle the emotional, spiritual, and relational weight that dating often brings.
When Does Life Begin?
As Christians, our position is clear. Scripture affirms identity, purpose, and value from the very beginning of life. But not everyone shares our faith—and the abortion debate cannot rest solely on religious language.
Why Culture Matters So Much
How Do You Foster Patience in Parenting?
How to Heal Family Offense and Restore Relationships
When Happiness Fades: Is Divorce the Answer?
Between misery and divorce lies a third path:
Healing.
A Pandemic Hiding in Plain Sight
During COVID, 3.8 million lives were lost worldwide—a heartbreaking number. But consider this: in the U.S. alone, over 20 million children live in a father-absent home. That’s nearly one in four children.
The Brown Initiative
For decades, we’ve wrestled with racial tension in our country. We’ve tried programs, legislation, awareness campaigns, protests, and social pressure. Yet division persists. One crisis fades into the next. Anger simmers. Hurt lives on. Progress often feels slow, fragile, or momentary.
In this blog I wrestled honestly with a simple question:
What if the problem isn’t only how we treat one another—
but also how we define one another?
Launching Kids Well
The “launching years” are exciting, fun, stretching, and yes—sometimes emotional. We’ve launched six of our eight children, and each time has brought its own mix of joy, challenge, and growth. But through it all, we’ve found rhythms and principles that help keep our family connected while still empowering our kids to step confidently into the next thing.
Helping Toddlers Know Jesus as a Person, Not Just a Story
One of the most beautiful privileges of parenting is introducing our children to Jesus—not just through songs and stories, but as a real person who loves them and walks with them. When one mom asked, “How do I help my toddler truly know Jesus, not just know about Him?” my heart leapt. What a powerful, intentional question.
The Evolution of Really Bad Science: Why Worldview Matters
Walk into a museum and you’ll see statements like “millions of years ago…” presented with absolute certainty. But does evolution meet the scientific test for a law?
A scientific law must be observable, measurable, and reproducible.
Drop a ping pong ball and watch gravity win every time—that’s a law.
Evolution doesn’t meet that standard.
Understanding the Gender Identity Crisis
All humans wrestle with identity—spiritually, socially, and personally. So why would gender or sexual identity be any different? Experiences, pain, and trauma shape behavior and influence the way people relate to themselves and others.
How to Help Your Kids Navigate Gender and Sexual Identity Issues
“How do you handle the gender and sexual identity issue with your children?”
Parents must be the first voice their children hear—not the second, not the third. When we wait too long, we leave our kids unprepared and confused, trying to sort through a cultural narrative that often contradicts God’s design.
Just an Ordinary Dude: Lessons From Following Paul’s Footsteps in Greece
What struck me most is that Paul was just a regular man with a bold call. He faced persecution, opposition, and danger—but he pressed forward with courage and grace. Seeing the prison in Philippi where Paul and Silas were held, and the spot where the Roman guard was converted, reminded me that God works through ordinary people who are willing to step into His purposes.
How Do You Decide How Many Kids to Have?
“What do you suggest we do if we can’t decide how many kids to have? My husband has a greater capacity than I do and thus wants more kids. It’s hard to know how to make that decision.”
Government by Mystery: What Happens When Leaders Stop Trusting the People
“There isn’t a problem we can’t solve if government will give us the facts, tell us what needs to be done, and then get out of the way and let us have at it.”
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