The New Testament eye witnesses of the resurrection tell the Easter story in a way that invites critical thinking. In fact, they practically beg the reader to be skeptical and to critically analyze the events of Easter Sunday. As Paul said, “If Christ...

If the church stops living according to the values of the Kingdom of God, it will become completely incapable of praying “Your Kingdom come.” And it will be completely ineffective at advancing God’s Kingdom. Yet many in the church today assume that...

The Fall into sin effectively ended the original unification of Heaven and Earth. But throughout history, God carved out small places on earth where Heaven could still invade and unite with Earth. One of those places was in the tabernacle / temple...

Jesus wasted no time in revealing his purpose. He claimed he came to bring the Kingdom of Heaven down to earth. And then, he began to do that in small ways. Every one of his miracles was a re-creation of how God intended the world to be, it was a...

If you were to reduce the entire message of Jesus to one sentence, what would it be? What about the entire Bible? Most people might offer: “Believe in Jesus so you can go to Heaven when you die.” It’s not a bad sentence. The only problem is that you...

It’s so easy to get caught up in the day to day, and even the moment to moment details of parenting that we can lose sight of the long-term goal of parenting. Namely, that our kids with have healthy relationships with God, with us, and with others...

Wise and effective discipline is one of the biggest challenges of raising children. That’s why we covered patience last week before getting to discipline this week. When we run out of patience, it’s easy to forget that the goal of discipline isn’t to...

It’s a parent’s behavior, not their words, that determines how kids turn out. Paul shows us that the behavior of loves is the most important quality of the relationship. Every parent says that they love their kids. But is love the dominant behavior of...

Effective parents are people who have fully learned to embrace a very uncomfortable tension. They embrace the reality that their family isn’t want it could be or should be. At the same time, they fully embrace and purse the vision for what God wants...

Now that we've done the work of forgiving others, there's one last component to triggering happiness. It's to see people as Jesus sees them. Jesus has the eye of an artist. He can see beauty in his mind's eye before it exists...