“if the primary purpose for gathering is to appease preferences or appeal to the desires of the people coming, our worship will not be God-centered.”
Let God introduce himself to your family via the open Word coming from your mouth to their ears.
We can counsel teenagers to remember that those who do not have Christ do not know what they are doing.
Lord, I’ve caught my child in their sin. Help me to restore my teen in a spirit of gentleness. Protect me Father, lest I too be tempted.
I am learning that walking—and parenting—by the Spirit means things cannot be planned, controlled, or created, only received by faith—even my weak and doubting faith.
He is teaching me what I’ve known in my head, but not always believed in my heart: I can do nothing apart from Christ, but in him I can do all things.
