Prayer and Faith: How to Spiritually Cover Your Family
In 2016, at age 46, I made Jesus Lord and began to take care of my brokenness and hurts for the first time in my life. Even today, as the Lord reveals wounds or traumas from the past or as new ones occur, I am quick to run after healing. To resolve the majority of […]
Why is the kingdom of God important?
By Emily Glasner, M46 Staff Writer God is the creator of the heavens and the earth. He is everywhere, always. However, because of sin, His kingdom is not yet everywhere. As the kingdom of heaven spreads, the kingdom of God is established. So, why is the kingdom of God important? Let’s dive in. The Kingdom […]
How a Marred Image of the Father Impacts Families
“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” (Ephesians 4:4-6) “For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on […]
How Can Fathers Connect With Their Children?
“For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.” (1 Thessalonians 2:11-12) A Father’s Greatest Calling Children are our greatest blessing from the Lord, and how we […]
Victim vs. Victor Mindset (Excerpt from Dying to Live)
The following is an excerpt from Dying to Live: Experiencing God’s Redemptive Power in the Midst of Tragedy, by Bryn S. Elliott. Chapter 17 A big reason I kept living with a victim mindset for so long was that I didn’t know I had the power to change. I didn’t understand that being a victim […]
The Divine Dance
Some have described the mystery of the Trinity as “the Divine Dance.” This term comes from the Greek word perichoresis, which means “to dance around” and the Latin word circulatio, which describes a circular dance between three persons, “such that each person is in the other two, while the others are in each one. At […]
A Father’s Love Letter
For many years, I had no idea of how God really felt about me and didn’t know that a relationship with Jesus was even possible. Unhealed wounds in my heart made it difficult for me to receive the glorious truth of what it means to be a child of God. This massively affected my ability […]
A Father’s Blessing – Part 2
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
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 […]
God as Father
Turning Your Heart to God For fathers, the key to stepping into our role as men and leaders of our family is to see and experience God as Father. Remember, Jesus came to make a way to the Father and to reveal the heart of His Father to the world. We love because He first […]