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    Family Matters: Devotional Thoughts to Help You Love and Lead Your Kids
    Family Matters: Devotional Thoughts to Help You Love and Lead Your Kids
    Family Matters: Devotional Thoughts to Help You Love and Lead Your Kids
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    Family Matters: Devotional Thoughts to Help You Love and Lead Your Kids

    By Dudley Callison and Johnny Polk

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    Parenting is a high calling, and with it comes a unique set of joys and plenty of challenges. God wants to strengthen parents to be the best parents they can be for His glory. Family Matters is a parent-focused devotional book centered on Luke 2:52, and Jesus grew in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and men. This book encourages parents on some challenging topics, including the following:
    WisdomMaterialism, media influences, dating, and maintaining a healthy perspective on the future.
    StatureAppearance, eating issues, and dealing with the pressure to succeed.
    Favor with GodFaith questions, personal value, and deepening relationship with Christ.
    Favor with OthersServing one another, bullying, and family relationships.
    Each devotional includes a scripture focus, as well as a Now What section at the end for personal reflection. The devotional thoughts included here can be a great encouragement parents as they love and lead their kids.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 4, 2012
    ISBN9781468594171
    Family Matters: Devotional Thoughts to Help You Love and Lead Your Kids
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    Dudley Callison

    Johnny Polk Commonly known as “the biggest kid at camp,” Johnny Polk serves as Director of T Bar M Camps in New Braunfels, Texas. Johnny has been leading Christ—centered adventure since 1987 and currently directs four camps and year—round programs serving more than 10,000 people a year. Johnny’s heart is big on sharing Christ's love and pointing kids and their families to Jesus. Johnny and his wife, Cheri, have two grown sons, Daniel and Kyle. Dudley Callison Dudley Callison has provided leadership development, staff training and pastoral care for T Bar M Camps since 2005. In addition, Dudley consults for non—profits in the area of strategic alignment and serves as Chief Operating Officer for Christian Associates International. A minister and licensed counselor, Dudley has a passion for helping parents love and lead their families. Dudley and his wife, Laura, along with their two daughters, Molly and Claire, live outside Denver, Colorado.

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      Johnny Polk has always been a good-hearted person that enjoyed getting to know and help people. He was a little too warm with some women and got in trouble finally, but nothing explicitly bad. Dudley is a true con artist, Christian Charlitan.
      He represents a narcissistic evil that undermines the bride of Christ and threatens the flock. Dudley has had serial affairs on his wife and most recently groomed a married female subordinate with three young kids at T Bar M (Center for Christian Growth). He used his leadership position to offer her positional advancement within the ministry in exchange for having a sexual affair.  He was finally caught and had to flee from Texas back to Colorado. Dudley argues in Out of the 4th Place that Christians should start conducting church in smaller settings like coffee shops and personal homes. Dudley uses small settings to explore others vulberbilities in order to manipulate unsuspecting individuals and make sexual advances without the oversight of an actual church. Please protect your family from this wolf in sheep's clothes.

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    Contents

    A Note to Parents

    Choosing What Is Right

    Now What . . .

    Respecting Opponents . . .

    They’re Not the Enemy

    Now What . . .

    Taking Devotions to Heart

    Now What . . .

    Serving Others

    Now What . . .

    Materialism—What Really Matters

    Now What . . .

    Pressure Cooker or Pressure Reliever?

    Now What . . .

    Encouraging Humility

    Now What . . .

    Relationships with Parents

    Now What . . .

    Worrying About the Future

    Now What . . .

    When Your Kid Isn’t the Best

    Now What . . .

    Everyday Choices

    Now What . . .

    Relationships with the Opposite Sex

    Now What . . .

    Community and Connectivity

    Now What . . .

    Understanding Eating Disorders

    Now What . . .

    Write It Down

    Now What . . .

    Loving Challenging People

    Now What . . .

    Stop, Look and Listen

    Now What . . .

    What to Wear . . . What to Wear?

    Now What . . .

    Sharing Our Faith

    Now What . . .

    Family Communication Highway

    Now What . . .

    The Dating Adventure

    Now What . . .

    Seeing What God Sees

    Now What . . .

    Encouraging the Gift of Personal Prayer

    Now What . . .

    Peer Acceptance

    Now What . . . .

    Self Control-Watch Your Mouth

    Now What . . .

    The Question of Alcohol

    Now What . . .

    The Ever-Present Voice of God

    Now What . . .

    Serving at Home

    Now What . . .

    Choosing Friends

    Now What . . .

    Competition Courage

    Now What . . .

    Enjoying Time with God

    Now What . . .

    Brotherly (and Sisterly) Love

    Now What . . .

    Peer Pressure

    Now What . . .

    Yahoo Yellow Meal

    Now What . . .

    Three Cheers for Church!

    Now What . . .

    Beyond Bullying

    Now What . . .

    The Challenge of Homework

    Now What . . .

    The Roller Coaster of Puberty

    Now What . . .

    Daily Bread

    Now What . . .

    Keeping It Real

    Now What . . .

    One of the most important things we can do is to start our day with the Lord. T Bar M has helped kids do this for years and now they have put together a devotional guide that will help the rest of us as well. Allow these pages to seep into your mind and steady your heart.

    Gregg Matte

    Pastor of Houston’s First Baptist Church

    Author of Finding God’s Will

    "Having sent four kids to T Bar M Camps over the years we love T Bar M’s commitment to families. Family Matters is a relevant, biblical family devotional, covering some of today’s most pertinent issues facing our families. The T Bar M family devotional series is a unique way to incorporate the truths in God’s Word with life lessons our families face every day."

    Lisa & Darrell Taylor

    Camp family

    I’m so grateful for the love Johnny and Dudley have for the glory of God as well as their passion to see it spread to the hearts and minds of camp families! You will be blessed by the words of these faithful men, and I pray that this devotional will stir your affections for Jesus!

    Michael Bleecker

    Worship Pastor/Songwriter, The Village Church, Dallas, TX

    In a world that seeks to steal, control and own the loyalty of children’s hearts and minds, this devotional book for parents is a beacon of truth and hope for the faithful parent.

    Steve Leavitt

    Founder and Executive Director of Hope for Life Ministry

    And Jesus grew in

    wisdom and stature,

    and in favor with God

    and men.

    Luke 2:52

    A Note to Parents

    So maybe we can agree that our families are a smidge different from what we grew up watching on Leave It to Beaver or The Brady Bunch. We at camp know that in the nitty-gritty of family life, things are pretty much never perfect! Thankfully we serve a God who is and who has given us His written Word to guide us in depending on Him in all parts of life.

    Family Matters is a family-focused devotional series hosted and offered by T Bar M Camps. Our foundational scripture is from Luke 2:52, and Jesus grew in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and men. These four areas guide program development for the entire T Bar M Camps family. Our topics come from surveys we received from you—parents who want to provide a home environment where their children can grow up like Jesus.

    In this book, we will be addressing some challenging themes, including the following:

    •   Wisdom—Materialism, media influences, dating, and maintaining a healthy perspective on the future.

    •   Stature—Appearance, eating issues, and dealing with the pressure to succeed.

    •   Favor with God—Faith questions, personal value, and deepening relationship with Christ.

    •   Favor with men—Serving one another, bullying, and family relationships.

    After each devotional, you’ll find a section titled, Now What . . . This is your opportunity to write down any personal thoughts God brings to mind as you read. You will find space to record truth He is revealing to you about His character or His ways. You’ll be given a chance to respond and also to pen a prayer of gratitude or commitment. Finally, you will have space to write a practical application God may be leading you toward. Prayerfully completing the Now What . . . section will keep you accountable and also serve as a tangible reminder of how God is at work in your family.

    Parenting is a high calling, and with it comes a unique set of joys and plenty of new challenges. In his prayer in Colossians 1:11, Paul asks that believers be strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that [they] may have great endurance and patience.

    God wants to strengthen you to be the best parents you can be for His glory. We hope the devotional thoughts included here are a great encouragement to you as you love and lead your kids. We pray blessings and joy for your family as we all pursue God together. Family matters!

    Johnny Polk

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    ~Wisdom

    Choosing What Is Right

    Blessed are they who maintain justice, who

    constantly do what is right.

    Psalm 106:3

    When Jeff began passing around the pack of cigarettes, Adrianne knew she had a difficult decision to make: smoke with the group, or face ridicule from her new friends.

    Charlie ran up to Scott just before class and said, I knew I wouldn’t have time to study for this exam today. But you’ve got me covered, right? In just a few minutes, Scott would have to decide whether or not to let Charlie skim answers off of his paper, or to endure a difficult nine weeks with a

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