Does My Family Have A Future?
When is it Time to Give Up?
July 25, 2021 • Pastor Bill White
We all need to stop from time to time, take stock of where we are, where we're going, and what's ultimately ahead. If we want to live well, we must understand that God’s paths get us where we want to go. Along the way we will want to quit, but we must remember that none of us are beyond the reach of God’s forgiving grace and faithfulness. Nothing is too hard for God.
Not Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
July 11, 2021 • Pastor Bill White
What do you do when you find yourself in a relationship with someone whose choices, behavior and life are a dead end, yet you care deeply for them? This is the hellish place where we find God in the book of Hosea. Every couple has troubles, hardships, obstacles and conflicts. Counselors say deeper intimacy waits just the other side of conflict, but we have to learn how to get there.
Freedom Isn't Free
July 4, 2021 • Pastor Bill White
Freedom isn’t free. It costs something to have it. It costs something to keep it. And when you lose it, it costs something to get it back. In Hosea’s story we see how human freedom gets hijacked by sin, and how God sets in motion His plan of redemption to restore freedom and set right what sin makes wrong.
What To Do With Your Anger
June 27, 2021 • Pastor Bill White
What do you do with your anger? Some of us will vent it while others of us stuff it in suppression. Either has consequences that may not be helpful in the long run. But there is a way to be angry and still be pleasing to God – a way to harness the energy of anger to serve a higher cause, a godly one.
Fathering
June 20, 2021 • Pastor Bill White
God loves us like a father and shows us what a father’s love can be like. He compares his experience with Israel to what a father feels – both tender memories and some very tough struggles. Part of our growth challenge may be believing God loves us like that.
When The Vow Breaks
June 13, 2021 • Pastor Bill White
100% of all couples have trouble. What are you going to do when trouble comes? As we look at the story of Hosea, we learn that it’s God who is going through the pain of rejection from His beloved, Israel. She prefers the company of false gods to the real thing, but God has a marriage dream for his people with him that is larger than their infidelity.
