How Can the Church Live the Kingdom Plan?
The Church is always adapting and changing to impact its culture. In America, it is not dying, it is transforming. Changing from the institutional church of the past 100 years, to a more dynamic and fluid church that little resembles the past, while maintaining the character of the church found in the Book of Acts. This does not mean that churches as we know them today will cease to exist, but it does mean that churches as we know them today will need to make important cha
Unconditional Relationships
How do you measure your relationships? Do you look at others' and say "mine are as good as theirs"? Do you read the latest book by the foremost marriage and family therapist? Do you watch shows on television and compare yourself? If that is what you're doing, then you are missing out. You have completely missed the point of God's intent for your relationships. In a recent article from Relevant Magazine, Debra K. Fileta wrote that the majority of the millennial generatio
God Loves Your Family
We know that God loves us. We know that God loves the world. But we seldom realize how much God loves our family. In Genesis 2, we're told of how God instituted the family by giving man a partner to fulfill their responsibility to fill the earth and multiply. God's relationship with humanity was first, and then he created relationship that would best reflect God's heart for humankind. It was God who knew best that "it is not good that man be alone," so created the first
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