Just like our earthly parents, our heavenly Father also wants to keep us near to him. But if we’re running around for 14 hours a day, seven days a week, doing business, homemaking, hanging out with our friends, on appointments, at the bank, the club, and eating out all the time, we lose our time…
The apostle Paul writes about the heavenly family. God, who is reuniting his family on earth, looks forward to the time when He will unite the family from heaven with the family from earth and make one big family. We can become part of this family through birth or through adoption. Natural birth does not…
Adam and Eve lived in the glory of a perfect world, but their sin brought ruin to the earth. In figurative language, we could say that they rolled down into a deep well of darkness, where we’re all currently stuck. We’ve all been born in this well, grown-up, reproduced, aged, become diseased, died, and been…
The first home in Eden was supposed to exemplify to each human family throughout the ages, what a happy home is all about. But the truth today is that many homes have failed. When plans arise to construct a new city, architects get together to decide where they are going to establish the main buildings,…