Family Features

Life happens, job loss happens, health-related emergencies happen. It’s not a matter of IF, it’s just a matter of WHEN. So how can you start preparing a safety net in order to be able to respond to life’s unexpected turns?

Singles, in case you’re contemplating the question Should I stay or should I go? let me help you decide on what could be the difference between a successful marriage and a misery-ever-after....or painful divorce.

Here are 10 signs you need to all-out let him go.

Take one of the smallest room in your house (your bathroom), then add in some heavy traffic from family members, and you have a messy cluttered bathroom!

Try Consider these organization tips to make your bathroom a clean and functional space for every member of the family. 

Having a child is a rich blessing that lasts a lifetime. Becoming a mother is worth more than all the money in the world. But in the case of Brenda Gomez Hernandez, she was doubly blessed!  This mom gives birth to a baby and becomes a lottery winner, all on the same day!

Why do you need for him to talk? Aside from the fact that speech is a uniquely-human ability and you’d like for him to prove his humanity from time to time, why do you need for him to talk?

Are my personal dreams always God’s will for my life?  Is God still considered a faithful and loving God if my dream does not come to fruition?

It might be impossible to measure or quantify the strength of a friendship — but what a group of women did for a friend who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer shows how powerful it can be.

Living below your means is seen by many as a life sentence, not the lifesaver that it is. It can take a crisis like unemployment or a sudden illness to reveal just how far in over their heads they really are. That's when a lifesaver looks really good.

For some things it's easy to say "no" - To kids who want their 3rd bowl of ice cream, to teens who want to skip school, and to door-to-door salespeople - saying “no” is easy.  But when it comes to marriage, it isn’t easy to discern when to say “no.”

Here are 5 things you can say “no” to in order to better your marriage.

It is important to be familiar with the women in the Bible and to know their lasting impact to be recorded in the Bible. These women did miraculous things out of their love for God and were strengthened by His mighty arm.

For barbecue lovers, Brad’s Bar-B-Que in Oxford, Alabama, is heaven on Earth. But 80-year-old Eleanor Baker said her visit from three young men, was especially divine.

Three young men raised right. No color barriers, no age difference mattered, just kindness.  This making of friends is the ultimate feel-good!

Do you ever think of your life as being split up into different pieces of a puzzle? You have your spouse, your kids, your job, your friends, your house, your church, etc. It’s all mapped out. It all looks good together.

But what do you do if one of those portions is missing? What if a slice of your life’s pie doesn’t exist yet? What if it never will?

You pray, but your prayers seem to bounce back to you unheard. You seek, but God’s voice is silent. So you wonder where God is – or even if He’s there at all.

The times when God is silent are tough to go through, but they have a purpose.

For some reason, some single women in the church feel like they are better off being married to apathetic believers (or unbelievers?) than being single. While marriage is a huge blessing, marriage to an ungodly man is extremely difficult, and could be dangerous to potential children and grandchildren.

To steer you in the right direction, here are 5 aspects of a man worth marrying.

How can you raise kids who aren’t always asking for more?  How can you raise a generous child who is not following the lead of this world?

Here are 4 important guidelines that will help...

A comprehensive index that answers questions like:  Where did "Easter" come from? When was it first celebrated? What Does Easter mean?  Where did non-Christian symbols like the Easter Bunny come from?

A Good Friday world is a world full of suffering, questioning, unfairness, trouble, mistakes, hurts, losses and grief.

But that's not the end of the story!

After Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross, He was placed in a tomb from which He would rise three days later.  Therefore, the tomb - or Jesus' rising from it - is a central event in the Christian faith.

So let's take a good look at what writers and witnesses both said about the tomb. 

We may be battling unprecedented burdens for our generation, but our hope is set firmly in what has already been accomplished by Jesus’ saving work on the cross …and resurrection.

Tired of the same old junk Hollywood keeps giving us? Here’s a simple solution. Find a kid, and let them write the script. Have their parents act it out. Dub the kids’ voices over their parents. You’ve got a (cute hilarious) cinematic masterpiece! Guaranteed.