Under the (Stained) Glass

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney celebrate their 25th episode with a discussion about Christian forgiveness and how we should teach our children to forgive despite hurt and the other person's repentance.

Does it seem like society today is constantly dishonoring our children by the things they subject them to through media and online? This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss the ways in which society can dishonor children while claiming to honor them and how we can turn the tide on society's influence on our children's innocence by creating a truly child-honoring culture, God's way, right at hom...

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney are talking all about how to live respectfully in the world while honoring and uplifting God's Kingdom!

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney are discussing what it means to teach our children to pray openly to God for anything, while praying "thy will be done." This is a tough one so jump in with us now!

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss the idea of individual worth from a biblical perspective and compare it to that of the world.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney are discussing the hard discussion of sin and how we talk about God's plan for sin with our young believers. 

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss God's commands for the family and why these are important to establishing a Christian Household. 

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss the identity that unites us all and how we can teach our children belonging through their identity as children of God.

This week Pastor Chris is away, so Whitney and her special guest Patrick sat down and discussed the youth and how we should approach teaching them the utility of and importance of prayer!

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney continue a two week discussion about aspirational prayers for the family. This week's prayers center around helping our families lean into God. You can also find prayer resources from this episode on our "Magnolia Park  United Methodist Church" Facebook page as well as at  https://magnoliaparkumc.org/prayer-spiration-resources/.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney start a two week discussion about aspirational prayers for the family. This week's prayers center around our children's friendships, futures, purity, and right desires. You can also find prayer resources from this episode on our "Magnolia Park United Methodist Church" Facebook page as well as at www.magnoliaparkumc.org .

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney talk about all the great things living in the Kingdom has to offer us and why we should intentionally seek a Kingdom household for our families.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss strategies to build and maintain the nurturing, nest-like home that Jesus talks about in Matthew 13; and how, like yeast, our actions for God's Kingdom multiply and grow in the world.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss the importance of good influences on the family as we seek to raise our children up as wheat and not weeds. Our bible verse of the day is Matthew 13:24-25.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney sit down to discuss the issues we might face in isolation that can cause our soil to become crowded, rocky, or even hardened as well as how we can address these faith issues and reconnect with Jesus.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney sit down to discuss the importance of incorporating Christian Church values into family and how to stand strong when there are discrepancies between family values and that of the church.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney talk about how distraction can pull us away from God and how, in this era of an abundance of information, we must seek God first.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss how we can help our children stand firm in their faith even when the world is seeking to counter our Christian beliefs. 

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss the difference between walking out our faith and Sunday morning Christianity.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss how to help young believers go from undeveloped or immature faith to trust-filled, childlike faith. They discuss 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 as they ask believers to "grow up" in their faith.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss how differences between us can be used as a means to hinder the opportunity to spread the Gospel message of salvation for all to others and how we can address this in the family, by highlighting what brings us together.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney discuss how to establish a miracle mindset in the family.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney are weighing faith in material things of this world against faith in God. Drawing from Matthew 6:33, they discuss how seeking FIRST the Kingdom of God is far better than seeking first the security of man.

This week, Pastor Chris and Whitney talk about the World's idea of perfection verses Jesus' as they pull from Matthew 5:48.

Today, Pastor Chris and Whitney dig down into their discussion of Matthew 5: 13-16 as well as Deuteronomy 6:7 as they discuss the importance of modeling Christian values at home!