TOPIC INDEXFamily (18)

  1. Psalm 127 Jeff Anderson sings "Without You"

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    01/05/24
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Chad digs deep into the riches of this Psalm. We hear of the gift of family, and are encouraged to rest in Christ's loving care for our loved ones.

  2. Discipline and Freedom with Chad Bird

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    11/16/23
    6 mins
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik Chad Bird
    We have Old Testament scholar, Chad Bird, on to discuss with us the ways we twist the book of Proverbs into a prosperity gospel, especially in regard to our ideas of family.

  3. Training Up a Child with Chad Bird

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    11/08/23
    5 mins
    By Katie Koplin Gretchen Ronnevik Chad Bird
    As we discuss ways that prosperity gospel sneaks into the family, we decided to start off by looking at the book of Proverbs, as these are often the verses that are cherry picked and often used to take prosperity gospel ideas in regard to the family.

  4. Leah: Waking up with the Wrong Sister

    book
    09/16/21
    15 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Rachel was the beloved wife, to be sure, but she was not the maternal link between Eve and Mary. That blessed position belonged to Leah.

  5. Parents: We All Choose Our Child's Religion

    book
    03/17/21
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Let’s stop pretending that we’ll wait for our children to grow up so they can choose their religion. Parents always choose their children’s religion. Without exception. It’s just that, in some cases, this religion operates under a different name.

  6. Meeting God in the Delivery Room

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    10/24/19
    14 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Our very lives as parents and children implicitly proclaim this higher and lovely truth: we have no value to God based upon our usefulness.

  7. “Train up” or "Dedicate"? The Hebrew Gem in Proverbs 22:6

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    07/16/19
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    As important as the training of your children is, much more important is handing them over to God—from the very beginning, from infancy, and beyond.

  8. Marriage Is Settling for the Okayest Spouse

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    08/06/18
    10 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Marriage is the ideal school in which to learn that we are not the center of the universe. We’re not created to live for ourselves. We find our true humanity only when we live for other people.

  9. The Church Doesn't Need "Children's Church"

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    03/22/18
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    In an age when families are already fractured beyond comprehension, are we seriously going to separate parents from children in the one service in which God himself is present to unite us to himself and one another?

  10. My Great-Grandmother Handed Her Husband Over to the Devil

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    02/19/17
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    She wasn’t so much giving up on her husband as giving up on herself. She was giving up trying to be the person who changes another person. It was going to take more than her to reform the man she loved.

  11. Life Is Too Short to Dream Big Dreams

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    02/05/17
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Life is too short to dream big dreams. They tend to devour everything that gets in their way, including family.

  12. Families in Turmoil

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    06/23/15
    13 mins
    By Chad Bird
    You may not believe it; you may even scoff at the claim, but here’s the truth: God hears your roar of pain on the other side of your silence. He counts every tear you let escape, or refuse to let go, from the ocean of anguish inside you.
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