Mary and Joseph are just some of the people who have had their plans changed. Often when God changes our plans, it is not to make us angry or to deliberately inconvenience us, but rather to bring blessings to our lives that cannot come any other way. We don't often see it that way, but God is determined to show us his blessings. Our response needs to be one of submission; God's response to submission is to supply whatever we need to fulfill God's plan.

There are many people who look back at their Christmases from childhood with great fondness and joy. There are others who regret so many of their Christmas memories that this season of the year is not all that welcome. No matter which a person has experienced, there is always a way to bring the Peace of Christ into the place where you live. And the peace of Christ can make all the difference in anyone's life.

Job is not considered the chief party animal among biblical characters. But the beginning of his book shows us a picture of his life and family that goes against the standard picture of his suffering and misery. Though it would be stretching it to call Job a "party animal" perhaps, he does exemplify one of the primary principles of how to live in the presence of God in our families.

Some people have an ideal in their head that churches should live up to. In one sense, it is an ideal that they themselves do not live up to. Others have given way to cynicism and do not believe that the Church can ever recover the place of respect they once had for it. In this message, we explore the value of Spiritual Fathers in a church and what can happen if we allow those Spiritual Fathers to have expectations of us.