Tag Archives: Family

My parents never prayed; at least I never saw them pray. Growing up, God wasn’t a high priority in my house. So, after turning my life over to Jesus, it was a bit awkward for me to submit myself physically to the Lord. Lowering myself to the ground on bended ...

I didn’t know my two grandfathers well, they both passed away before I was four years old. One let me sit on his lap and listen to his pocket watch, the other shared ice cream sanwhiches with me. Both were first-generation Americans. One left school after sixth-grade, the other attended ...

There is a wise saying about family unity: “The family that prays together, stays together”. There’s another saying that existing in contradiction to this one, however: “Every family has a black sheep in the flock”. Both have been proven true in the family dynamic, throughout time. My pastor often tells ...

Dad was seven when his little brother passed away suddenly. He became an only child in an instant, having only his imagination as a constant playmate– until the first of three mixed-breed dogs came into his life… Jack was the largest and the first of the three–“of Airedale and junk-yard ...

Whether it takes place within the family of the Church, or outside, there is no question that divorce is one of the key ills of our modern American society. At its base it breaks up nuclear families, but via extension it works to dismantle much of the patchwork of our ...