A Different Kind of PPP

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Author:  Laura Kuehn I continue to be honored to be part of Passionate Purposeful Parenting and to be among a “great cloud of witnesses.” Seeking to equip parents to raise their children in the Lord is a humbling endeavor.  In this post, I would like to share a different kind of PPP that we have [...]

Prayer and Parenting

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Author: Holly Lien Last summer my youngest son was in the middle of undergoing medical tests to determine the cause of some abnormal blood work. It had been a long journey leading up to this point. What started out as multiple missed days of school in late January ended up leading to rounds of blood [...]

Teaching Them the Power of Prayer

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What if I handed you a “special phone” and told you that you can use it anytime, anywhere and you would have a direct line to talk to President Obama, the most powerful man in the world. At first, most of us probably wouldn’t use it, right? Maybe we’d be too intimidated, or we wouldn’t [...]

Back to School with Great Enthusiasm! But wait…..don’t forget to pray!

Author: Lynn Winters Lynn and her husband live in Benicia, California and attend New Harbor Community Church. Lynn has been married to her wonderful husband Roger for 34 amazing years. She enjoys cooking, quilting and reading. She and her entire family love the outdoors and boating. Lynn works full-time outside the home. She has been [...]

Making Prayer a Priority

Author: Melanie Robbins God answered my son’s prayer for a $85 dollar Lego set with a YES. He found 70 dollars on the ground and with that and what he had in spending and recycling money he was within one dollar of the amount he needed. God showed Nathan that He definitely cares about him [...]

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Author: Tyler Robbins Tyler has been married to Mrs. PPP for 13 years, with son Nathan, 9 and daughter, Rachel, 8. In addition to serving as PPP technical support, Tyler works for an Internet company and serves as an Elder in New Harbor Community Church in Benicia, CA. ——————– 14 If my people, who are [...]

Different Types of Prayer

There are many different types of prayer we can model and pray with our children. Jesus modeled for us how to pray with The Lord’s Prayer. It covers so many aspects of prayer: praising and adoring, petitioning, confessing. One thing that also stands out to me about this prayer is the reminder to us that [...]

Praying with Your Children

How do we help our children develop their own personal relationship with God — help them to truly connect on their own with their heavenly Father? One way we can encourage and support this is by praying with them and teaching them how to pray. I don’t know a better way to help their faith [...]

Praying for Our Children

How often and what do you pray for your children or grandchildren? Praying for our children is one of the best things we can do for them. Praying for their relationship with God, their character development, their safety, their friends, their future mate etc. — there is so much to cover. I think of Nathan [...]