2021 Family Conference Series
Rejoice and Give Thanks!
Overview
Psalm 97:12 commands, “Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.” This passage echoes a command seen throughout Scripture: Rejoice and give thanks in all things. It is for this reason that the 2021 Family Conference theme is Rejoice and Give Thanks! We hope that God will use these sessions to encourage His people to walk in the life-changing truth of rejoicing in all things.

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Joy in our lives comes in a variety of flavors. Any number of experiences can produce that thrilling feeling we’ve…
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The Most Outrageous Joy

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In I Samuel 17, we picture the battle between David and Goliath as being a one-on-one championship. But the boy…
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How to Be a Person After God’s Own Heart

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In this crazy world in which we live, there’s a real battle going on. Now, beneath the other conflicts that…
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Rejoice Always

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Often we caution our sons, “Be careful!” In many cases, this caution carries over into our spiritual lives, too. But…
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Tossing Out Conventional Wisdom

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What happened to you America? Where is the love for adventure? And more specifically, Christian, since when is it more…
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The Dangerous Game: Experiencing Joy-Filled Suffering

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Have you found the strength to rejoice in physical infirmities? Aaron Baker’s testimony helps us to accept a fuller understanding…
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Rejoicing in Affliction

What Think Ye of Christ? Part I: Christ, The Glorified One
Jerry Benjamin5 Likes
The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Have you ever opened to this climactic book, hoping that God would…
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What Think Ye of Christ? Part I: Christ, The Glorified One

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Harking back to his Cajun upbringing in Louisiana, Don Courville uses a Boudreaux and Thibodeaux story to lighten the mood…
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The Power of Rejoicing When Things Look Impossible

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Christians yearn for the firsthand experience of God’s work or provision in their lives, but almost no one wants the…
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Hope in the Midst of the Storm

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What battles are you facing? How can you win these battles? Eventually, we are called to take part in the…
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How to Win the Battle Even When …

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In Psalms, we glimpse a joy that must express itself. But in Isaiah, we glimpse a humility that would never…
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The Power of a Grateful Heart

Three Essential Ingredients for the Family You Dreamed Of
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Any husband or father can be a critic. So Gil Bates challenges us as men to check our expectations. In…
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Three Essential Ingredients for the Family You Dreamed Of

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If a happy home is something everyone wants, why is it so rare that we find one? In a fast-food…
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Happy Homes

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Aaron Baker quotes J. Vernon McGee as saying some of the meanest young people in the youth group are sometimes…
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How to Think Like a Christian

How God Told Abraham to Avoid the Reception of Deception and Be an Exception of Perception
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How do we know what we believe is true? Through the bombardment of contradictory information and conflicting opinions how do…
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How God Told Abraham to Avoid the Reception of Deception and Be an Exception of Perception

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Like many dads, Dr. John Bechtle remembers how it felt when he first realized that his children were growing up….
2021
Moving Toward Manhood

Rejoicing Even When You Have to Run the Race with Patience
Tim Levendusky3 Likes
There were only six runners that the young athlete could see ahead. Plus, it was only half a mile left…
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Rejoicing Even When You Have to Run the Race with Patience

My Father’s Proverb: Imparting Faith to the Next Generation
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Where else in Scripture are the hopes of a father’s heart so excellently penned as in Proverbs? Proverbs chapter 3…
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My Father’s Proverb: Imparting Faith to the Next Generation

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When it comes to the war we wage with “pet” sins, some of us feel like Harry Truman in his…
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The Buck Stops Here

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Hot on the heels of his first message about Joshua, Gil Bates hastens to bring further assurance from the life…
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How to Get Good Sleep in a Crisis

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In times of loss and grief, we may feel our lives have been shattered. Often, it is only at this…
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How You Can Know What You’ve Got, Before It’s Gone

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Commitment is one of those vanishing virtues. What’s rarer, though, might be self-sacrificing commitment! Jesse Boulden has seen a thousand…
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The Consequences of Commitment

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For generations, eagles have ridden on the wings of the wind. Revivals, too, have ridden the “winds” of the Holy…
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Life Principles from the Golden Eagle

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When you’re hammering away at the construction site and hit the wrong nail, a co-worker may be watching—watching how you…
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Be Thou An Example

What Think Ye of Christ? Part II: Christ, The Object of Faith
Jerry Benjamin1 Likes
God redeemed Israel from Egypt as a manifest demonstration of His power and faithfulness. Nevertheless, the Israelites “in their hearts,…
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What Think Ye of Christ? Part II: Christ, The Object of Faith

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Time marches on, and our testing increases. Also increasing, however, are the parallels between our day and the day of…
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Tyrants’ Tactics

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What the boy with the loaves and fishes did has become legendary. But consider also that he didn’t have to…
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The Lad and His Lunch

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What exactly is corporate worship supposed to look like? What is the Lord’s plan and desire? Maybe it seems that…
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Corporate Worship’s Goal: Communion with God

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If the world is a mess, what are Christians to do about it? Some say we must protect our faith…
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Singing Through the Battle

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To have your imagination sparked with scenes of sweeping conquest, you need only hear the name of Joshua. Of all…
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How to Be a Man God Chooses

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An ocean wave or the g-force of an accelerating sports car can become something a young man remembers the rest…
2021
The Power of the Spoken Word

What Think Ye of Christ? Part III: Christ, The Image in Whom We Are Created
Jerry Benjamin1 Likes
Beloved, God’s express intent for designing Adam in His image was to bring him into fellowship with Himself at every…
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What Think Ye of Christ? Part III: Christ, The Image in Whom We Are Created

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A reflective quoting of Romans 8:28 & 29 now and then is encouragement for any Christian. But these verses may…
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Conformed to His Image

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As prolifically as ever, Jenny Daniel fills her message with word pictures. Stories old and new, bits of humor, and…
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But a Journey

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Perhaps you wish you could change people. In this message, Mark Wilkes shares how he had this same desire! A…
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Take Responsibility
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