Family
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Kids, You’d Better Respect My Wife!
Recently, we were blessed to hear brother John DeBerry preach in a Gospel Meeting. In one of those lessons, he talked about the family and spent a great deal of time talking about the need for children to respect their parents. He recounted a story about a time when he, as a young boy, did not show respect to his mother. His dad came in and quickly reminded him that he was not just disrespecting his mother, but “my woman!” On a few occasions, I have done the same thing with my children. When I have felt they were getting just a little too big for their britches, I changed…
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Parenting 101
It has been many years since I was at the height of parenting. As most of you know, our children are grown, married, and have children of their own. They lead busy lives caring for and teaching those children. When you are going through all of the daily care and disciplining (teaching) of your children, it may seem like it will never end. They will never learn how to do things on their own. They will never be able to feed, clothe, and sustain themselves. And then it happens…they are grown and out on their own. It dawns upon you that eighteen years of time to train your children, which seemed so long in the…
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The Goal of Christian Parenting in One Statement
It is not easy to be a parent, and it seems to be more and more difficult to be a Christian parent each day. As our society drifts further away from Biblical principles and purity, instilling those things in our children only becomes more against the grain. But have you ever thought that the entire goal of being a Christian parent can be summarized in just one statement? That said, it is a statement that every Christian dad and mom need to have in mind with every decision they make. It is a statement you emphasize when you tell your child that they will not dress like everyone else, but…
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“In a Little While…”
How many times when we were children did we ask our parents when something was going to happen or be over with? “How much longer until we get to grandma and papa’s house?” “How much longer until we eat?” “How much longer do we have to sit here?” “How much longer until we leave?” How much longer do we have to stay at this place?” And we can just hear our mother or father answer back, “Not too much longer. It will all be over in a little while.” As human beings, we are constantly moving to and planning the next thing. We are impatient and we don’t like waiting.…
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A New Chapter for A Legacy of Faith
I don’t know when these words will appear on the website. I’m not even sure they will appear. I’m not the one responsible for starting the website, nor am the one who schedules when various posts appear. As many of you know, the man behind A Legacy of Faith is our son, Adam Faughn. He will be the one to decide when (or if) you ever read these words. All I know is that they are being written on July 1, 2018. In fact, they are being written fairly early in the morning. I had a little trouble sleeping, so I thought I’d try to share some of my thoughts on this day. This day may…
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Episode 107: Bored Kids Are…a Good Thing? [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_107.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS(Player not displaying or working? Click here.) With summer moving along, a lot of kids complain about being bored. How parents handle that can be of major importance. Today, Adam and Leah talk about how kids being bored is not a bad thing, and can actually be good for them! Resource Why It’s Important to Return to the Lazy Summers of Our Youth [Today Parenting] More from A Legacy of Faith To subscribe to A Legacy of Faith by email for free click here. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Subscribe via rss Find us on Stitcher Radio Visit the show archives
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Who is the Greatest?
A little over a year ago, I published my first online post. Until very recently, I had not had any kind of social media (are we sure this guy is 17?), so until last year, I had never put anything of mine on the internet. Last June, though, I decided to make my first post. It was an article, like this one, and at the time I wrote it, I thought I was the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time – there’s the youth lingo). Since then, I have been taught that I was and am not. I already knew that, but events in my life in the past few months…
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Episode 106: What Do Our Kids Hear Us Say about the Church? [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_106.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS(Player not displaying or working? Click here.) What we say around our kids matters. What we say around them about the Church could matter eternally. This week on the podcast, Adam and Leah use an article by Neal Pollard to discuss how parents can make sure they are dealing with conversations about the church in a way that is uplifting and helpful. Resource “What are We Saying about the Church?” [Neal Pollard] More from A Legacy of Faith To subscribe to A Legacy of Faith by email for free click here. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Subscribe via rss Find us on Stitcher…
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Do You Know What Your Kids are Doing?
In the last few months in the United States, we have been bombarded with shootings at our schools. It even hit very close to home when there was a shooting at the Marshall County High School close to our home here in Paducah, Kentucky. Several were wounded and two young people lost their lives. I have listened to countless interviews with those who were affected by the shootings. I have watched as anxious parents grabbed their children and cried tears of joy when they realized that their child was not among those who were wounded or killed. One particular statement made by the parent of one of the shooters has haunted me in…
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The Good Old Summertime
I love summer. The sun, the sleeping later, the reading, the yard work, the ability to be productive and still have some free time left in the day. I was reflecting on something today and realized one of the reasons I like summer so much. I was thinking about how much fun I had earlier laughing with my children. As I considered that, it led me to ask this question: “Do you all like me better in the summer?” The analytical one said something about not liking more or less dependent on the season. One said, “What? I don’t know. I mean I like you the whole year.” But, one…
