Family

By Joseph Sunde

Amid the array of quaint and compelling Christmas tales, O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” continues to endure as a uniquely captivating portrait of the power of sacrificial love.

By Joseph Sunde

Saying “yes” to family involves plenty of love and sacrifice, yet this tends to play out not in grand gestures, but through mundane, everyday struggles.  Saying “yes” to family means loving, encouraging, and blessing each and every day — and not just with our kids or parents, brothers or sisters.

It means pouring into our families that our families might be poured out for the life of the world.

By Herman Bavinck

We are seeing a universal pursuit of equality, a yearning to eliminate all distinction based on birth or property and not on personal value, a strong push for independence and freedom. In church and state, in family and society, in vocation and business, each person wants to see their own rights defined, wants to cast their own vote, and wants to stand up for their own interests.

By Joseph Sunde

What does it mean to say “yes” to the family?

In Episode 2, we see a prime example through the Zwyghuizen family (otherwise known as “Team Z”). For Team Z, it means something as simple as loving, encouraging, and blessing each other each and every day — and not just a standalone family.

By Joseph Sunde

By Joseph Sunde

With our newfound economic prosperity and the political liberalization of the West, we have transitioned into an era of hyper consumerism and choice. This brings all sorts of blessings, to be sure. But it also brings plenty of risks.

Whether we’re drawn by raw materialism or a more basic idolatry of choice, such distortions will be sure to diminish or disintegrate plenty, but the deleterious effects on the family and children are particularly pronounced.

By Joseph Sunde

We continue to see the expansion of freedom and economic prosperity around the world. Yet despite having enjoyed such freedom for centuries, the West is now stuck in a crisis of moral imagination.

By Joseph Sunde

“If all of our working and all of our resting serves the same vocation of love, why do we so often feel out of balance?”

By Lester DeKoster and Gerard Berghoef

Have you ever wondered why the Lord puts this order—way, truth, life—on his answer to Thomas’ question?

The Lord had said to his disciples that he was going away. In John 14:5, Thomas speaks for them all in asking: “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

By Jordan Ballor