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Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Winning the Hearts of Our Children - Ephesians 6:4
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
More than anything, kids need their moms and dads to be lovingly and actively involved in their lives!
They need us to be with them and walk with them to help them become the God-glorifying young men and women that God created them to be.
Feeding them and sending them to school isn’t enough. We need to capture their hearts. And that begins by parenting in a way that turns their hearts towards us, not against us.
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Loving God By Obeying Your Parents - Ephesians 6:1-4
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
The relationship between a child and his or her parents is the most foundational human relationship of our lives.
So much of who we are – for better or for worse – is the product of our relationship with our parents. Our way of seeing the world, our perspective on what life is about, our sense of identity, our level of confidence, our value system, our view of who God is – so much of it is rooted in the relationship we had with our parents when we were growing up.
And not only as individuals, but entire churches and communities are greatly impacted by the health or dysfunction of families. And that health or dysfunction begins at the level of the parent-child relationship.
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Life-Giving Marriages - Ephesians 5:22-33
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Much of our teaching about marriage in Christian churches focuses on how to find someone with a compatible personality, someone you have fun with, someone who has common interests, someone who will complete you and meet all of your needs.
We talk about how to resolve conflict, how to communicate better, how to deal with financial issues, and how to keep adding spice to our romance to keep the fires burning.
Those things aren’t bad, but the problem is that all of it is usually focused on finding MY happiness…and it usually has very little to do with Christ.
Listen, a good marriage that is filled with the love of Christ will make you very happy in a lot of ways, But finding personal happiness is not at all the point of marriage.
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
For Poorer or For Worse - Ephesians 5:1-2
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
We so often enter marriage starry-eyed and at least a bit naive, imagining a "happily ever after" that Hollywood would envy.
But what happens when the other spouse is either unable to give or unwilling to give? What happens when a spouse is not what they ought to be, due to sin, weakness, or some character issue? What happens when there is an accident or a serious injury, or when illness comes? What happens when a couple falls on hard times, like the loss of a job or financial difficulty?
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Spirit-filled Relationships - Ephesians 5:18-21
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
If Jesus is alive in us, He will only do what Jesus does. And what Jesus does is exactly what the apostle Paul is calling us to do in all of our relationships in the body of Christ: to give ourselves for one another in love.
It’s not something we study or learn in a book. It’s not something we work hard to achieve. It’s not something we master through lots of practice or experience. It is completely – 100% – the result of the work of God in us.
And he promises that through the power of the Spirit, God is able to do in us far beyond anything we could ask or imagine. There is no limit to how much Christ can fill us with His love. There is no limit to how much He can love others through us.