5 Ways to Cultivate Intimacy With Christ During the Holidays

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By The M46 Team Remembering Jesus is something that’s important for every season of our lives. However, God made the natural world operate with distinct seasons and He loves the changes that come with different weather patterns and landscape alterations. The season of Christmas is a time to remember Jesus in deeply meaningful ways.  Although […]

How to Create Christ-centered Traditions with Your Family This Christmas

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By The M46 Team As we gather as believers in Jesus to celebrate his birth over the Christmas holiday, we have the privilege of creating special moments that can be practiced each year and can help build strong connections between parents, children, siblings, and friends. Family traditions can be powerful, bond-building activities that create a […]

The Gift Your Parents Really Want This Christmas: Spiritual Blessing

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This is the acknowledgement to my mother in my first, soon to be released book, More Than Gold (March 2023): “To my mom, Thank you for being unwavering in your faith, standing strong year after year in the midst of great trauma and personal loss. I will always be grateful for your strength, love, bravery, […]

A Father’s Blessing – Part 2

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If you look at the families and parents and children who make up today’s culture, it’s not hard to see how the enemy has attempted to destroy what God intended for good. Single parents, estranged children, rampant divorce, abandonment, and dysfunctional people filled with bitterness and resentment only begin to describe the effects of fatherlessness […]

A Father’s Blessing – Part 1

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The Bible is a testament to the goodness of God and declares over and over how vast His love is for His children. Jesus won the victory over sin and death, and He reigns supreme. As sons and daughters, we get to appropriate His victory into every area of our lives and follow the ancient […]

Fight for Your Family Through Prayer

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As parents, we must fight for our children, and prayer is essential for protection and enforcing victory against the enemy’s schemes. When a mother and father come to agreement in prayer (and in unity within the marriage), the authority they have in the Spirit to war over their family is unmatched. Even as a single […]

Where does M46 Ministries get its name?

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Malachi was written to address God’s people’s spiritual complacency, a highly relevant topic for our generation. M46 takes the words of the prophet Malachi seriously. With fatherlessness (the social crisis of our day) at an all-time historic high, we can take comfort knowing God’s message through Malachi is one of hope for our generation. See, […]

Setting the Stage: My Life as a Father

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He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction. Malachi 4:6 NIV Living far from the promises of Malachi 4:6 – Setting the Stage Just a few short years ago, my heart was not […]