Families in the Family of God

(January, February, March 2006)

Want to learn more about Families in the Family of God? Use these Bible Studies for personal devotion, group Bible studies, or teaching a church class. Below are links to the lessons in this 12-part series.

Introduction: A Christian faces all sorts of struggles. Most are internal fights with temptation. Some are fights against the growing evil in society. All(as we learned last quarter)are battles against spiritual forces of evil. One struggle that crosses these li...

Introduction: Have you noticed how important "people skills" are to having a good life? It is easy to tell the people who just radiate personality, who seem to get along with everyone. Some call the ability to get along well with others, the ability to say just th...

Introduction: What impact did sin have upon God's original plan for marriage? Did it change God's plan for the relationship between husband and wife? If so, did Jesus' death on the cross bring us back to the original plan? We are going to review some things we h...

Introduction: How do we view children? Do we look upon them as blessings or an expensive nuisance? Before my wife and I had any children, she jokingly told some young parents we were going to have a baby. The reaction of the other couple was most interesting. The...

Introduction: Jesus calls each of us in Matthew 28:18-20 to make disciples of "all nations." Would this include making disciples of our children? Of course it would! Last week we discussed what the Bible teaches about the blessings and challenges of having childr...

Introduction: The Bible is filled with all sorts of practical advice. Last week we studied Biblical advice about how to teach our children about God. This week we move on to advice for grown children in their marriage. Having a good family requires a good relatio...

Introduction: Recently, I saw a book title in which the author seemed to add the word "sex" just to help it sell better. When a read a little note about the book, it admitted this. Well, this lesson is sort of about sex, so let's hope more people are encouraged to...

Introduction: I'm reading an interesting book that presents a new theory on how our brain functions. The book suggests that our brain handles the input for sight, touch, sound, and smell in much the same way. Most scientists (including the writer of my book)seem u...

Introduction: How do we have a happy home? Sometimes it is not easy, sometimes the members of the home make things difficult. But, like everything else, God gives us directions for making our homes better places to live. Let's jump into the Bible and find out ho...

Introduction: What impact does the popular culture have on your faith? On your decisions about what is right and wrong? If you lined up your favorite television program with the standards of the Bible, how close would they be? Over the years, I have proposed abo...

Introduction: Many years ago I was invited to have dinner with one of my clients whose religious freedom I was defending. He had a large number of children and dinner was remarkably quiet compared to dinner at home with my two children. His children did not fight...

Introduction: This week I saw the story of a couple who, with the passage of time, saw the romance drain out of their marriage. The wife was then diagnosed with a brain aneurism. Knowing they had very limited time left together, the couple rekindled the original...