Family by God&#039;s Design

A Family Check

Take a moment and think back to the time when you were engaged and preparing for marriage. What were your dreams about marriage? How did you envision the daily life of marriage? What values and priorities did you want to live out in your marriage? Take another moment. Consider the time when you were anticipating...

Celebration

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December 23, 2024

Too Much…Again

I’ve done it again. It happens…and I hate it every time it does. It doesn’t just impact me either. It involves my whole family as well. On the flip side, the good side, it does present the opportunity for me to reassess and start again. In fact, this is a good time of year to...

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September 23, 2024

A Quick Priority Check

Life gets rushed. I’m sure you’ve noticed. In the midst of the rush, the turmoil of the news, the rhetoric of politics, and the general pace of life…our priorities can get lost. I don’t mean our “believed priorities,” the priorities we hold to mentally. I’m talking about our “lived priorities.” Our actions and words so...

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March 4, 2024

Communication in the Microwave?

We live in a fast-paced world. We use “fast acting pain relief,” complain about a slow internet, and microwave our food. On the other hand, healthy marriages do not happen quickly. You can’t throw your marriage into a microwave for 30 seconds and have a healthy, fully developed marriage pop out. No. Healthy marriages require...

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November 18, 2023

Protect Your Children from the Dangers of Loneliness

Chronic loneliness is a killer. In fact, loneliness is as harmful to our health as smoking or a poor diet. Loneliness can also contribute to depression. We do everything we can to protect our children from the dangers of smoking or a poor diet. Why not do what we can to protect them from the...

Family Shepherds

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November 5, 2023

Are You Kind or Image Conscious?

Imagine you were faced with a choice, a seemingly innocuous choice. For instance, you could watch a movie you’ve been dying to see or go to the fifth game of the fifteen-game series your child will play in this season. Or you could go home for dinner with your spouse or to an after-work social...

Honor

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October 31, 2023

The Threat to Our Families of Divided Times

We live in divided times. Division rears its ugly head in so many areas of our communities and our world. These divisions have driven us into more disparate and polarized “tribes.” Sadly, they have also infiltrated our families. Division has reared its ugly head in the family to divide parents from children, spouses from spouses,...

Grace Honor

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August 21, 2023

Excellent Parenting Begins…

We all want to be excellent parents… and that it is no simple task. Still, as difficult as it is, I do know where to begin. Excellent parenting begins with self-awareness. That’s right. Excellent parents practice self-awareness. They have learned that raising a child demands that we, as parents, take a deeply honest look at...