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.
Sin will constantly break our hearts, but God's love in Christ Jesus will give us new hearts daily, in the abundance of his forgiving grace. This is love in its purest form, and he has overcome the world.
Does Jesus want us to hate the members of our own family? In Luke 14:26, he says that if anyone comes to him and does not "hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple." In this video, we look at these words (and the…