Can you imagine if every day was your birthday? Of course, you don’t want to age that fast, but the presents would be fun to open! How long would it take before it wasn’t fun anymore? Sometimes that happens in your everyday life: you don’t find the joy in or thankfulness for what you have...
Author: Mark Webb (Mark Webb)
When Your Family Isn’t Perfect – Part 3
The first time you had to be away from family might have been the happiest day of your life. Or, being away could have been one of the hardest things you’ve ever had to do. But you may have never experienced any kind of separation. You have family a few miles down the road or...
When Your Family Isn’t Perfect – Part 2
If you were to list the members of your distant and immediate family, how long would it be before you cringed when you wrote that one name? How long would it be before you remembered those words you heard or that event you experienced? You may have been to blame, or you could have been...
When Your Family Isn’t Perfect – Part 1
5 March 2023; When Your Family Isn’t Perfect; Mark Webb
When Your Family Isn’t Perfect – Part 1
Some have a picture of their family tree hanging in their house, while others have a page in their Bibles with such information. Others would rather not think about those people whom they’d rather not even call ‘family.’ Love them or loathe them, you are a part of a family. The Bible tells of many...
Know the Way
Jesus was not one to avoid saying what needed to be said. When those closest to him were shocked at his latest news, he spoke words that gave them peace in the moment and hope for the future. To Think About: To Live Out: If you know Jesus is the way, you have a message...
God Will Provide
Whether you have many children or no children, what Abraham is told to do strikes at our very core. Why should a child, one of any age, be purposefully killed? What kind of God would pose such a dilemma? It may be a God who sees beyond this minute and into the next hour or...
Community Groups: Living This Life Together
The words in the book of Hebrews offer encouragement through what must have been a difficult time. Though you cannot know every circumstance facing that audience, you can be certain that your difficult days leave you feeling the same way: tired, scared, uncertain, and maybe hopeless at times. The focus of Hebrews, like every other...
Did God Really Say ______?
The Garden of Eden must have been a beautiful place! Amid all the beauty, some difficult decisions had to be made. To Think About: To Pray About: To Live Out: Your everyday life rarely consists of a walk in a garden, yet it still contains directives about what is best for your life and those...
In the Beginning…God
Once you get past the table of contents in your Bible, you enter the book of Genesis. The name alone tells you something is about to start. As the saying goes, first things first. Before people existed, the world did, but even before the world, there was God. To Think About: To Pray About: To...