How to Win as a Family
Article by Dr. Les Hollon, Pastor, Trinity Baptist Church
Family is God’s gift of opportunity.
The opportunity is for us to form loving, meaningful, and enjoyable relationships. What we do with family is our choice to make and how we make that choice goes a long way to shape our own happiness or unhappiness.
Consequently let’s work to get it right.
Family life is complicated. There’s no easy way to be and do family life. But there are best ways and bad ways from which to choose.
Family life - God’s gift to us - is also meant to be our gift back to God and for each other. There are four basic blessings that each family can give in order to win as a family:
1) focus & faithfulness;
2) delight in each other;
3) memories worth keeping;
4) growth & opportunities.
Family life is also meant to be our gift back to God and for one another. As a family, let’s trust God’s promises with such devotion that we succeed with each other and we help each family to succeed.
Pastor Les Hollon
Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them. Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” “What did Moses command you?” he replied.
They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
“It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.
This article was written by Les Hollon, Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church. For more information about God and your place in His world, contact Dr. Hollon, click over to Trinity Baptist Church.
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