Welcome to
Growing Home Together!
We’re Rob and Joanna Teigen and we want to walk with you on this journey of faith and family.
Join us in prayer for a strong marriage and wisdom in parenting. We share uplifting advice and practical tools to help you grow closer to God and each other in every season of life.
The Heart Behind Growing Home Together
Home is where we can experience the greatest intimacy with God and the ones we love. Yet at the same time, home is where we see our brokenness. Our family relationships reveal how loving and compassionate, selfish or fearful we really are. At home, we know both the greatest joys and the pain that life will bring.
We know God wants to use your home to teach you to love more deeply. It’s where you can see God’s presence and power at work. At home, you can see the promises of the Bible are really true. God does provide. He does offer forgiveness and second chances. He brings healing and restores what’s broken between you.
Let’s grow homes–together–that love well, trust in God, and shine a light to a broken world.
The latest from the blog
Inspiration for Your Family
Episode 72: Teaching Kids About Managing Money—with Matt Bell
As our children have questions about money, we want to prepare them to find answers and make wise decisions with their finances.
Episode 71: Helping Our Kids Cope with Sad Emotions—with Michelle Nietert
Michelle Nietert is a professional counselor, speaker, and author who just released “God, I Feel Sad: Bringing Big Emotions to a Bigger God.”
Prayers and Conversation Starters for the Moms in Your Life
You can use these in your Mother’s Day card, to start a meaningful conversation, or to pray over a mom in your life before you start the day.

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A Prayer for Today
It all begins with prayer. Whether it’s your marriage or your kids, or even your own heart’s struggles, we believe prayer is the key. We often post heartfelt prayers here to guide us through the week. We hope each prayer brings you hope and encouragement as you draw close to the Lord.
Lord, you have heard the cries of people of color for centuries.
You know the pain like no one else. Jesus, too, was “oppressed and afflicted” on this earth. (Isaiah 53:7) He too was judged and punished, “despised and rejected,” and “held in low esteem.” (vv. 8, 3)
In the end, Jesus gave his innocent life as an offering for the sins of hatred. Injustice. Abuse. Apathy. Pride and disobedience to your Word. He knew the suffering of oppression, and he bore the sins of the oppressors on the cross.
Lord, we need your light and power over the darkness in our world. Racism is tearing us apart. Voices are shouting for change and for justice. Families are broken and weeping the loss of their loved ones. We feel helpless—without you, we have no hope.
Forgive us for our stubborn blindness to the needs of our neighbors.
Forgive us for refusing to listen. We chose to cling to quiet and comfort for ourselves while peace and safety has been denied to so many. Give us humility to sit under the teaching of your wise ones who understand racism and mark a path to reconciliation. We need ears to hear and willing feet to follow.
We pray you will humble the hearts of our leaders and fill their mouths with words of peace. We need courageous men and women who will use their strength, positions of influence, and assets to protect and uphold all people. Give them humility to lead like Jesus, in that “whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant” and “the one who rules [is] like the one who serves.” (Mark 10:43, Luke 22:26)
What do we do, Lord?
By your Spirit, tell us when to speak and share your heart for racial reconciliation. Put our hands to the work of establishing equality here and now. As you expand our understanding of both your perfect will and the failings in our culture, move us to act on what we know. We long to lead a “good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.” (James 3:13,18) Move through this prayer for our family to make us both hearers and doers of your Word.
Finally, Lord, we plead with you to protect our child.
You have clothed his sweet spirit in beautiful, biracial skin. His brown eyes sparkle when he laughs, and he twists his black curls around his finger when he’s deep in thought. Yet so many in this world are set against him, without even knowing his name. His creativity. His big heart that holds compassion and friendship for everyone in his life. Keep him under your wing as his refuge and shield from harm. (Psalm 91:4) Guide our parenting to prepare him for the world outside our door. Bring him honor and make him seen as one made in your image. Pour your love into him—and our family—so we shine your light wherever we go.
Thank you for your promises we can cling to in these times. We put our trust in Jesus, who “is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” (Colossians 1:17) You are binding your people together from every nation, race, and tongue. We hold confidence and hope that both now and forever, you will “reconcile to [yourself] all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” (v. 20) In you we find all that is good, right and just, and worthy of praise. Amen.
How we’re learning right now:
Michael Todd – Transformation Church
Tony Evans – The Urban Alternative
Institute for Healing Racism – West Michigan
“How to Talk about Race with Your Kids” by Michelle Reyes
Comment with your suggestions for books, podcasts, videos, and articles about racial reconciliation so we can learn and serve together!