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7 mins read|01/05/24Chad digs deep into the riches of this Psalm. We hear of the gift of family, and are encouraged to rest in Christ's loving care for our loved ones.
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6 mins read|11/16/23We have Old Testament scholar, Chad Bird, on to discuss with us the ways we twist the book of Proverbs into a prosperity gospel, especially in regard to our ideas of family.
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5 mins read|11/08/23As we discuss ways that prosperity gospel sneaks into the family, we decided to start off by looking at the book of Proverbs, as these are often the verses that are cherry picked and often used to take prosperity gospel ideas in regard to the family.
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15 mins read|09/16/21Rachel was the beloved wife, to be sure, but she was not the maternal link between Eve and Mary. That blessed position belonged to Leah.
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9 mins read|03/17/21Let’s stop pretending that we’ll wait for our children to grow up so they can choose their religion. Parents always choose their children’s religion. Without exception. It’s just that, in some cases, this religion operates under a different name.
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14 mins read|10/24/19Our very lives as parents and children implicitly proclaim this higher and lovely truth: we have no value to God based upon our usefulness.
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12 mins read|07/16/19As important as the training of your children is, much more important is handing them over to God—from the very beginning, from infancy, and beyond.
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10 mins read|08/06/18Marriage is the ideal school in which to learn that we are not the center of the universe. We’re not created to live for ourselves. We find our true humanity only when we live for other people.
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9 mins read|03/22/18In an age when families are already fractured beyond comprehension, are we seriously going to separate parents from children in the one service in which God himself is present to unite us to himself and one another?
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11 mins read|02/19/17She wasn’t so much giving up on her husband as giving up on herself. She was giving up trying to be the person who changes another person. It was going to take more than her to reform the man she loved.
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9 mins read|02/05/17Life is too short to dream big dreams. They tend to devour everything that gets in their way, including family.
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13 mins read|06/23/15You may not believe it; you may even scoff at the claim, but here’s the truth: God hears your roar of pain on the other side of your silence. He counts every tear you let escape, or refuse to let go, from the ocean of anguish inside you.
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