Healthy, happy families don't just happen. They take dedication and work. The Bible lays out how to have a family that is both healthy and happy.

Confidence and self-esteem is something the world advertises that you can have if you only follow certain steps, or look a certain way, or dress a certain way. But confidence rooted in the world's values never lasts. Only God, the Lord Who Provides, can help us develop the confidence we need to have the abundant life.

When we go through things we can’t change and don’t like, trusting God and surrendering to His will is the starting point for the path to peace. With one word of “peace”, Jesus can put our raging hearts to rest.

Everyone has hurts. The only way to heal those hurts is to look to God, the Captain of the Storm, and confess those hurts to Him. We walk through a few other steps critical to healing hurts for good with God's help.

Hope is one of the essential of life – people are crying out – “Is there any place I can get hope that I can count on in this storm?” The truth is, our hope is in God, the Captain of the Storm.

What makes a prodigal child? How are we to respond and reach out to prodigal children? And how can we remember that ultimately, God is our Heavenly Father and we are the prodigal children?

The world has changed the way we view family, and we need to remember just how fragile and important the family is. God loves family.