While our world today is plagued by division, suffering, and just plain meanness, God is inviting us to help create something new--a collage of people from all kinds of backgrounds and cultures, a community of belonging and delight.
If we want to have strong and healthy families and relationships, we have to become healthier ourselves by seeking God’s healing in our own lives. As our families become healthier together, our households can become places of joy, kindness, and hope for a weary world.
Broken relationships are painful, but repair is possible. Repair is a process that takes significant effort, but when we’re both willing to make that effort, with God’s help, we can experience the joy of reconciliation.
There are no perfect people. We are all broken in some way, but healing and forgiveness are possible. With God’s help, we can experience healing and even thriving in our relationships.
Every relationship is built on commitment, but not commitment in general. There are four specific commitments every relationship needs, and you can learn to make those commitments and have better relationships.
Character matters in all of our relationships, from our family rooms to our bedrooms to our boardrooms. Your character matters and so does the character of the people you choose to trust.
Family matters, and no family works without trust. Trust is the fuel that drives every relationship. When trust is broken, repairing it is difficult. When we can learn to build, strengthen, and repair trust in our relationships, we can experience lasting joy.
In a society that is growing lonelier by the day, we desperately need community. Jesus invites us to a community where everyone is welcome and where God is healing us toward wholeness.
Solitude was once our default state when other people weren’t around. Now it’s nearly extinct. With distraction always easily at hand, we are losing the ability to endure uncomfortable emotions.…
Our lives are growing more and more complex, and we are growing more and more disconnected from the things that make us human. To simplify our lives, we have to reconnect with what it means to be part of God’s good creation.
