How will your children (your physical children or your spiritual children) remember you as they look back over your role as pastor of your Family Church? Looking at our lives from an “end of life” perspective can help us see what we want to change now.

When our families are a safe place for faith to grow, a powerful hope for eternity is also forged. That hope is like a bell that rings loudest when it is struck hardest. When trouble strikes our family, hope can ring out from our safe place for others...

God designed the family to be the healthiest place for children and adults to explore their faith, to ask questions, to make mistakes, and to learn what it is like to live with imperfect people in a loving, forgiving relationship. The family was...

What does a person have to do or to be, to be “more than a conqueror”?

Jesus said, “If you love me, you will obey what I command” (John 14:15). I do love Jesus, yet I so often find myself doing what Jesus has forbidden. Am I the only one with this problem?

I am living proof that grace has the power to change lives. Not only do I have a peace and hope that surpasses all understanding, I also now have a powerful desire to say “no” to sin and “yes” to God’s will.

How do I reconcile a just God with a gracious God? What I deserve is to be cast out of his presence forever. That would be justice. Instead, I’m offered pardon, forgiveness, heaven! In his amazing grace God found a way to be both just and loving.

When so much changes in our lives, we long for peace. We ache for something certain that we can stand firm on, even in times of pain and suffering. We find that very thing in Romans 5, an unfailing love that inspires us to rejoice both in the good...

Last week we talked about how faith saves. This week we are going to see saving faith in action. Only we’ll see that the power of faith in Abraham’s life had little to do with him and everything to do with the one in whom Abraham placed his faith.

We’re sinful and God is holy. How can we bridge the gap? How can we go from one side to the other? We can’t. But here’s the good news: God does what we cannot do. And it’s all ours through faith.