Five Minute Family

Good morning, Five Minute Families! Last week we discussed WHY your family may be dealing with boredom. This week is HOW to combat boredom as a family. Since you can find hundreds of detailed activities on the internet, we aren’t going to reinvent the wheel here. We want you to begin by getting into the specifics about your family’s identity so that you know HOW to combat boredom in a way that wil...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. We are going to do a two-part series about boredom. That’s right. Boredom. Boring. Bored. Now, we aren’t talking about the eight-year-old who isn’t allowed to be on his devices for the day so he goes around saying he is bored. We are going to talk about a bored family, one in which most if not all of the family members would classify their family life as boring....

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Our church just had a missions Sunday. Kim and I were blessed to come share about God’s work here at Clear View Retreat. While we are much more comfortable chatting on the couch down at the Lodge than standing behind the podium, looking at the differences in the numerous people sitting in front us got us thinking about family identity and individual identity in...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Thank you for joining us this morning. For the past three weeks we have discussed roles in the family - leadership, management, and child roles. Leadership is often discussed in terms of servant leadership. Managers that pitch-in and help out are often praised, considered more likeable and approachable. Kids of certain ages often ask to help with any new task, a...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. It is great to be with you again this morning for our third devotion about the roles of family members. We discussed the leadership and managing roles of the parents, but what roles do the children of the family play? First, let’s discuss what a child’s role is NOT. It would be unhealthy for a child’s mental and emotional growth for them to be placed in the role...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Wow, while I have written that phrase many times over the past three years, I have not yet said the words to be recorded. It feels a bit strange to be chatting solo with you today, but as Jim introduced last week, we are doing a series about different family roles wherein he spoke about leading your family well. While that is most often directed to the husbands...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Thank you for joining me this morning. We are doing our devotional spot a little different this week - and the next couple as well. This morning I want to discuss how to lead your family from a biblical perspective. I will be focusing on the role of the husband and father, briefly. Because this role requires a lot of time and energy, in the theme of the Five Min...

Good morning, Five Minute Families! Our household has now had someone sick for over ten days. Unfortunately, a couple of us were worse than the others and recovery has been slow. Healing takes time. And, even after we are contagious, we may not be feeling our best. Thus has been the case for Jim and Joe, who had it the worst of all of us and are still having a hard time with stamina and respirator...

Good morning, Five Minute Families! The sun is shining as we plan out what to share with you today. The sun streaming in my windows makes me smile. It doesn’t have to be warm outside, and I don’t have to have the sun on me to feel better. Simply seeing it improves my mood. You know, there are people like that. Simply seeing them makes me smile. Sometimes, they are busy and only have a moment to fl...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. This is the first week of 2023. We hope you had a wonderful time of celebration (or sleep) to ring in the new year! A new year brings new hope, new ideas, and new opportunities. For those listening to us here on the local radio station, we hope you will consider the new idea of volunteering with us as a family in one of the various ways we have available - durin...

Good morning, Five Minute Families! Kim and I hope you had a very wonderful holiday season! So many Christmas parties, church nativity plays, community spirit events, and lights blinking throughout the neighborhoods have filled the days. After we enjoy our favorite treats that we only have this time of year, many of us will look to the upcoming year as one with renewed hope and possibilities. Have...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. No matter where you in your ACTIVITIES of festivities this time of year, take a moment to breathe deeply and remember that every moment of every day is about Jesus Christ. Remember, He loves you, right where you are. Once the Christmas festivities have ceased, folks will begin thinking about what the new year will bring. Let’s discuss the concept of New Year’s r...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Do you feel that your family is in a season of wandering in the wilderness? Maybe you are just coming out of one but can’t really explain it to yourself or your loved ones. Whichever is the case, please join us as we discuss “comfort in the wilderness” today. The sermon at our church this past Sunday was about the comfort of God using Isaiah 40 as its Scriptural...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. So glad you are with us this morning. We are discussing parenting for a second week. Tying into the parenting behaviors and attitudes last week is a parenting analogy presented by Dr. Robert Kellemen. Each parent drew a dot on their notes. Next, around the dot, we drew a circle fairly close. Then, a second circle a bit further away. Then, another and another. An...

Good morning, Five Minute Families! Parents, have you ever paused long enough to think about what your biblical role is in your child’s life? Not just your earthly role of feeding, cleaning, clothing, and teaching roles to avoid neglect, but truly, why did God put you together as a family? A role is defined as “the function assumed or part played by a person in a particular situation.” In psycholo...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Does your family have a habit of holding grudges? Of punishing a loved one when he or she does something that hurts them? Those patterns are not biblical or reflect Christ, my friends. Join us as we discuss this important topic. We have discussed forgiveness before on the Five Minute Family, so why would we discuss it again? Well, because we continually wrong on...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Do you follow Christ with reckless abandon? What does that even mean? Are we suggesting you become religious fanatics? Nope. What does reckless abandon for Christ looks like in the family setting? First, let’s define our terms. Reckless means ‘without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action.’ So, if we say that a person is reckless, we are saying...

Good morning, Five Minute Families! God is so very good. His word gives each of us the guidance to interact with people in all the areas of our lives. We just finished a marriage retreat here at Clear View Retreat, and we got to hear how God has worked in those and many other marriages to redeem His people as well as to build up His kingdom. In the thought of marriage, let’s discuss - mostly in co...

Good morning, Five Minute Families! Today, we are going to talk about food - well, kind of. I am a foodie, and I have worked hard over the last 25 years to convert Kim into one as well. (I wouldn’t call myself a foodie, per se, but I definitely appreciate flavors way more than I used!) One thing Kim categorically tried to avoid for most of her young life was salad of any kind - green, mixed, veget...

Good morning, Five Minute Families! Fall is in the air, and that means hot cocoa, campfires, and s’mores! Another thing in the air is love… God’s love and young love learning how to care for one another God’s way. Today, we close out this series about dating. You know, when Kim and I were younger, the conversations in church about dating were quite different. There have been trends about how young...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Take a breath with me. No matter what is happening in your life right now, breathe in God’s Word and trust Him to help you take the next step, even if you don’t know the full picture yet. Not knowing the full picture… That’s what dating is. This is week three in our dating series, and last week, we made a mistake - misspoke - about the definition we had wanted t...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Last week, we launched into a deep subject that many people hold extreme opinions about - dating. Because of circumstances, we opted to go into a specific detail first. This week, let’s zoom out and take the overarching viewpoint. We record the Five Minute Families for Christ-following families. We want others to be able to learn from it, but the reality is that...

Good morning, Five Minute Families! We are Jim and Kim Nestle of Clear View Retreat. Our family camp ministry is available to all families in the norms and storms of life. And, one of the very NORMal aspects of life is finding a life mate - someone with whom you can grow old with, share your dreams with, and, most importantly, represent the Lord with. Dating is a massive topic, and as we discussed...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. Many of us spent time with family and friends this past weekend for the Labor Day holiday. In all of those gatherings, the likelihood is extremely high that someone was dealing with anxiety considering that about 1 in 5 people are dealing with a diagnosable anxiety disorder in America today. Today, we are going to talk about what a five-minute family can do to s...

Good morning, Five Minute Families. When our boys were young, there was an artist on the local radio station where we lived who had a kids radio show called Karen and Kids. One of the songs they sang came from Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” Karen and the kids would sing “Ask and seek and knock.” By the way, you can find...