Posts by Brandon Phillips
Family Worship: Habits That Shape The Home
Family Worship: Habits That Help Shape Our Home Continuing on with our discussion of family worship, I want to focus on the habits that will help shape our homes. First I acknowledge that every family is different and your rhythm will not look the same. But I also want to say that a good habit…
Read MoreWorship Leads To Change
Last week we talked about family worship. It is clear to see in scripture that this is not a new concept or new practice. It is a time tested practice that produces disciples with in the context of the family! If you are looking for a way to make sure your family is following God,…
Read MoreFamily Worship
Not long ago I created a team at church. This team will help me plan family ministry and offer suggestions and support as we move forward as a church to a more intergenerational church family approach to ministry. At that meeting we acknowledged that this would be a long process. The shift does not…
Read MoreThe Example – You
Last week I posted about having a family mission statement. I enjoyed working on ours with our family. However it cannot be a one time thing that we discuss make a graphic and move on. It needs to be something that you talk about often. I made a picture and plan to display it where…
Read MoreDeveloping a Family Mission Statement
4 “Hear, O Israel:TheLordour God, theLordis one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you…
Read MoreThe Inner War
There is a battle raging. It is not a physical battle that we can see. It is one that is going on inside of us. We are all born with a soul at war. The war is between the sin nature that we are born with and the awareness that there is a personal creator…
Read MoreThinking About You
I have been spending a lot of time thinking about me. Not in a narcissistic sense but in a sense of evaluation seeking to understand why I am the way I am. I want to be better for the people around me. I want to be the kind of person that others want to be…
Read MoreMen – What are you thinking?
Men. If you are like me you are stubborn, a creature of habit, and have a problem with pride. As I write those words I don’t think there is anything wrong with those characteristics necessarily except they can cause you to be selfish, immovable, and want your own way. These can be barriers in relationships. …
Read MoreLove is…
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. I cannot help but reflect on the love passage on Valentine’s…
Read MoreIntentional
Intentional. Today I want to come to you with one word. If there is a word that we could live by that would change our lives it would be INTENTIONAL. This word is a change of mindset. Are we going to let life come at us and react to life or are we going to…
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