It is very easy to get discouraged about prayer. You know how it goes. You hear a message about the power of prayer. You go home and you start to pray, and nothing seems to happen…

We have been talking about the power of prayer at church. And it is not unusual for people to hear sermons about the power of prayer and to get excited and to go home and to start to pray and then to come crashing down a…

We are thinking about the problem of unanswered prayer. But before we even attempt to understand a good solution to this problem, we are identifying some clearly wrong answers we are tempted to believe…

You will never get the right answer when you are asking the wrong questions. This means if you are struggling to understand why God is not answering your prayers the way you would like, and you are asking, is it because God does not know what is going on…

I was recently asked to talk about how to talk about sexual purity with your children. I suppose because I have nine children myself, this is an important subject for me to think about…

Talking with your kids about sexual purity doesn't begin with talking to them about sexual purity. We are looking at what we can learn from the way Paul teaches on sexual purity that we can apply to our own conversations with our children…

It’s going to be difficult to teach your children what the Bible teaches about sexual purity, if you yourself are not really serious about what the Bible teaches about sexual purity…

How do we talk to our children about sexual purity? Over the past several posts, we have suggested: 1. We need to talk about sexual purity…

As we have been thinking through how to talk with our children about sexual purity, we have noted: 1.) We need to talk about sexual purity. 2.) We need to talk about more than sexual purity…

If you want to help your children in their fight for sexual purity you will want to help them work on developing a self-sacrificial lifestyle from a very young age…

If you are going to send your children into battle you need to prepare them to fight. It’s not just enough to have a one time talk with them where you say, 'This is really bad. Don't do that.'..

What is the responsibility of believing parents, and especially, hear that, especially, believing fathers? We can break Paul’s answer down into two parts. 1. We see that we have a responsibility not to parent in such a way that makes it easier for our children to sin…

You don't always connect the word nurturer with the word father.But Paul does. He says, fathers, bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.But what does that mean specifically…

What should a father teach his children? One place to look answer that question is the book of Proverbs. Over the next several posts, I want us to look at ten of main lessons from Proverbs that you as a parent have the responsibility of teaching your children…

What does a father need to teach his children? We are walking our way through Proverbs and trying to learn from Solomon about what we need to teach our children about living wise lives in this world…

The way the Bible describes how relationships within the local church are supposed to work is beautiful.Listen to Paul.In Ephesians 4:1.“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called…

Before we talk about what you are supposed to do for Christ in serving His church, it’s important we just stop and think about what Jesus has done in serving you.Our motivation to serve others increases as we consider the way Jesus has served us…

We sometimes use the busyness of life as an excuse for not serving Jesus in the local church. And, over the previous posts we have been looking at why that is such a serious mistake. One of the biggest reason being as a believer God has gifted you to serve the church…

I really want to be the kind of local church that God wants us to be.But is it really, actually possible? I guess if we just looked at ourselves and thought it were up to us, we would have every right to wonder…

Getting involved in a church takes work. With all the different things you have going on in your life, why should you make sacrifices to really be a vital part of the church? One reason is because Jesus has given you a gift…