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Dads—we all want to be good fathers and raise good kids, but was this the goal of the first father? Think the Bible is a book about idealistic morality and goody- goody religion? Its time to get serious about the real truth. If God's purpose was to tell a story of good fathers and good kids, then most of the Old Testament has to be thrown out. It's time to read again and discover what real fathers aim at –fathers like Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Judah, and David, and most of all God.
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The debate rages about the role of women in today's culture, from Amy Chua's "Tiger Mom" to Sheryl Sandberg's motherhood advice as COO at Facebook. What's a woman to conclude about her identity, her purpose, and her role? Make sure you don't miss this opportunity to discover what God has to say about the other half of the image of God in the human race.
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What's up in a family when the dad eats with his sons but not with his wife, especially when he is old and blind? Where moms purpose becomes to take advantage of her husbands old age, where the younger brother lies and blasphemes God, and where his older brother gets so angry at the end of the day he threatens murder? Not exactly a Hallmark™ movie.…
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From the Bachelor and the Bachelorette to online dating services, how to find a marriage partner has become big business. When it comes to finding a future husband or wife, does the God of the Universe care? Two old men, a forty-year-old bachelor, and the need for a good wife -how did the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob work behind the scenes as t…
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President Obama is in his second term and like every American President since 1948, it's time to try and settle the thorniest diplomatic problem on earth—Israel vs the Palestinians. What makes this problem so intractable is that it's a fight between brothers, and it all started with a woman with an ingenious plan.…
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The struggle with infertility. It can be one of the biggest battles a husband and wife face. Believers need to care for each other in these battles and we also need to know God's redemptive story from Genesis to Revelation. Barrenness -it's one of the major themes in God's story. It tested Sarah and Abraham almost their entire lives.…
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She's the mother of us all but she is often viewed as a villain -the woman who fell to temptation and plunged the entire human race into sin and death. Is biblical faith really chauvinistic and down on the female side of the human race?
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What's a woman to do in today's culture? Should she try and prove that Wonder Woman is just as strong as Super Man? Should she dress all her Barbies in combat fatigues or should she head down to her handy plastic surgeon and get the latest look of eternal youth so her daughter's high school friends mistake her for an older sister and not mom? You'r…
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He talked to God like you would talk to a friend. He received the tablets with God's own hand written law inscribed by God's finger. Millions believe that his law provides the way of salvation, but did the historical Moses point us to the Law or to someone else?
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Doesn't Jesus teach us that we should just forgive and forget? If this is so, then why did Joseph give Judah such a hard time before he was willing to embrace him? Should we just embrace those who commit crimes against us?
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I thought if we raised our kids memorizing all the right verses, attending Sunday School and youth group, and making sure they hung out with good Christian kids that as adults they would turn out right. Where is God when they turn away from their family and their childhood faith? This is the question answered in the story of Judah at the close of G…
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With Pope Benedict stepping down, the first living pope to do so in hundreds of years, the media highlights the scandals in the lives of some of those involved in choosing the new one. How does God handle conning and deception in the lives of the fathers in His family? The life of Jacob can give us some answers.…
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The dad lied at times and was passive in leadership in his home. How could he ever become the father of our faith?
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Do you ever fail as a dad? When you fail, do you feel like quitting when it comes to walking with God and challenging your kids to do the same? If so, then this week you've got to think about the fact that Noah found grace, not merit for services rendered, in the eyes of the Lord. When Noah got drunk, was his walk with God finished?…
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Last week our Texas town was again agonizing over murderous violence. Chris Kyle, the military's most elite sniper, and his friend, Chad Littlefield, were simply trying to help a young veteran suffering with PTSD. At a shooting range the young man turned on them and took both their lives with an automatic pistol. Our entire country is wrestling wit…
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The First Father: Good Kids, Bad Kids, Forgiven Kids? (Genesis 2-3)
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God has chosen especially dads to take the torch of faith and use it to ignite faith in our kids, especially our sons. For the next seven weeks we are on a mission. What do we as dads need to do in order to generate faith in our kid?. What can we learn from other fathers, especially biblical fathers about what to do and what not to do? Lets begin w…
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