In Pursuit of Family Church, Part 4: Family Church Is Prayer - Pastor Pete

09/11/23 • 35 min

God has designed Family Church to be regular conversation with him--something we call prayer. Prayer is not something parents or friends just "model" for their children and for those in their functional family. Prayer is something that we "live" with our children and friends as God is the purpose and focus and true friend of our lives. "Can I pray for you?"

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In Pursuit of Family Church, Part 3: Family Church Is Preparedness - Pastor Nate

God has designed Family Church--the home or one’s functional family--to be a place of safety and security for its members. Family Church is also a place of preparation and training for the spiritual warfare awaiting us in this world. Just as parents teach their children to look both ways before crossing the street, or buy their child a helmet for riding his or her bike, so we outfit our children and those within our functional family with the armor of God for the journey home to heaven.

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He Gets Us - Anxiety, Part 1: God Knows What We Don't - Pastor Pete

When we feel anxiety, we are often tempted to think that knowing what will happen would make us feel better. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus knew what was going to happen, but knowing didn’t relieve his anxiety. Knowing didn’t make it easier. Where did Jesus turn for relief? He confided in his believing friends. He told them he wasn’t OK and asked for their help. He turned to his Father and told God what God already knew—how he was feeling and what he was afraid of. Jesus understands anxiety. And more than anything else, Jesus trusted. He knew the future and he could do anything, but he trusted. The one who knew what we wish we could know, and could have done all the things we wish we could do, trusted instead. He earned righteousness for us as he contemplated his sacrifice for us. The best remedy for anxiety is not to know the future like God does, but to know that God knows and to trust him