Resources by Topic: Marriage and Family

Randy answers questions at Good Shepherd Community Church's 2007 Mom to Mom session, including, "What are some ways to discipline using grace and truth?" and "How do you talk to your kids about death?"

In a sense a Christian marriage and a Christian church should strive to rekindle the relational elements of Eden, unsuccessful as we may often be.

This passage demonstrates what is often true—if we misunderstand one biblical doctrine, we will inevitably misunderstand others. 

Picture a single breath escaping your mouth on a cold day and disappearing into the air. Life here is brief. It is like a dot, which begins and ends and is brief. But from that dot proceeds a line that will go on forever. Death is not a wall but a doorway.

Links for those interested in learning more about natural family planning.  

My heart goes out to you and the pain you are experiencing. You're grieving a loss right now and I’m sure you have many mixed emotions. 

I am leading a class of young families at my church and we are presently talking about how to teach your children about money. What are your answers to the following questions?

1 Corinthians 5:10 is good in broad principle, saying we have to associate with the world since we’re in it. However, that is general association, not specific partnership.

God has a perfect time and place for all of us. He knows and has planned our circumstances, and while human choice is taken into account, God is not bound by the decisions of people. 

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.” — Ephesians 5:25 What a golden example Christ gives to His disciples! 

Marriage may not change in God’s sight, but it does in man’s. Those who wonder what the family values debate is about can find out by looking at different editions of Webster’s Dictionary.

Parents have to balance their responsibility to govern their children’s lives with their teenagers’ need to develop independence and freedom. Parents have to maintain that tension. 



Parenthood is a calling, far more important than any vocation.