SUMMARY

We sound the alarm on the growing cultural crisis around marriage, family, and children. Marriage is God’s design for covenant, companionship, sexuality, and family. We challenge the lies that keep people delaying marriage, avoiding commitment, fearing children, or building life around comfort instead of calling. God’s design is still good. Strong marriages, healthy families, and babies raised in faith are the keys to our future.

QUESTIONS:

1. What cultural messages have shaped the way you think about marriage?
2. Why did God design marriage to be the foundation for family?
3. What would it look like to make room for children in the way you plan your future?

READ MORE ABOUT:

• God creating man and woman in Genesis 1:27
• God’s command to be fruitful and multiply in Genesis 1:28
• “It is not good for man to be alone” in Genesis 2:18
• Leaving, cleaving, and becoming one flesh in Genesis 2:24
• Children as a heritage from the Lord in Psalm 127:3–5
• Marriage as a picture of Christ and the Church in Ephesians 5:31–33

SUMMARY

We share a sneak peek into Susan’s latest project, Can I Please Just Eat in Peace?—a book and Bible study coming soon! Every person struggles with something, even if they don’t realize it. But God designed us to live in freedom, and He wants to reveal the places we’ve been held captive. Your testimony matters, your pain is not a competition, and Jesus does not want you to get comfortable in chains He came to break.

QUESTIONS:

1. What chains have you become so used to carrying that they almost feel normal?
2. How has fear, trauma, addiction, or past pain shaped the way you seek comfort or control?
3. What testimony might God be inviting you to share so others can see the power of Jesus in your life?

READ MORE ABOUT:

• Overcoming by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony in Revelation 12:11
• The first temptation involving food in Genesis 3:1–7
• Jesus resisting temptation in the wilderness in Matthew 4:1–11
• Freedom in Christ in Galatians 5:1
• Jesus setting captives free in Luke 4:18–19
• Taking every thought captive in 2 Corinthians 10:5

We believe the Church cannot stay silent when it comes to hot topics and current events. We talk about how we personally discern when to speak, what to address, and how to help families stand firm. Speaking up is not about chasing controversy, pleasing people, or joining every online outrage—it is about shepherding souls with clarity, courage, and love.

QUESTIONS:

1. When the culture is being loud, where do you most need the Church to bring biblical clarity?
2. What makes it difficult for you to receive truth when it touches a personal, political, or cultural issue?
3. How can you respond to hard topics with both conviction and compassion instead of fear, silence, or outrage?

READ MORE:

• Leaders keeping watch over souls in Hebrews 13:17
• Speaking the truth in love in Ephesians 4:15
• Salt and light in the world in Matthew 5:13–16
• The enemy coming to steal, kill, and destroy in John 10:10
• God creating male and female in Genesis 1:27
• Testing everything and holding fast to what is good in 1 Thessalonians 5:21