Overview
God has blessed Gil and Kelly with 19 precious children. They admit they are not a perfect family, as there are no perfect people. This couple is aware that any successes experienced in their family are a result of the culmination of help from many others God has brought into their lives. The Bates share that they are "humbled more often than we’d like to be and we find that we’re often wrong more than we are right." The transparency of their Christian walk and reality of raising a large family intrigue audiences and present opportunities to point folks to God.
What Would Be Wise to Ask For?
The Family You Always Wanted and How to Have It
Fruitful Vineyard
Three C’s for Continuing
The One Defining Factor in a Man’s Life
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In this no-nonsense message for today’s husbands and fathers, Gil Bates urges us to ask ourselves about the deepest desires…
The One Defining Factor in a Man’s Life
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…
Three Essential Ingredients for the Family You Dreamed Of
How to Get Good Sleep in a Crisis
How to Be a Man God Chooses
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The enemy of our souls is alive and active today. He strives to make our situation seem dark and hopeless….
Preparing for Battle
The Ten “C’s” of the Bible
Five Qualities of a Faithful Messenger
Who is the Richest Man in the World?
The One Thing No One Wants in Their Home
The Danger of Getting a Wrong Perspective of Life and God
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During one of the student sessions earlier in the Family Conference, Gil Bates asked the students for their most pressing…
The Danger of Getting a Wrong Perspective of Life and God
How to be the Father You Always Wanted to Be
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Treat your children the way you treat other people’s children. Don’t leave the responsibility of devotions to your wife. Ask…
How to be the Father You Always Wanted to Be
Vital Truths We Wish We Had Known Before Marriage
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When and where does a stable, loving marriage relationship begin? As a single, young person, what if you could avoid…
Vital Truths We Wish We Had Known Before Marriage
How to Position Yourself to Perform the Way God Wants You To
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The Temple was the Lord’s house. You would think the house of God would have always been impeccably clean, right?…
How to Position Yourself to Perform the Way God Wants You To
How to Line Up the Two Most Important Things in Your Life
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Gil Bates has a clearly-stated goal for his family: to lead them in the Lord’s ways. But the Lord had…
How to Line Up the Two Most Important Things in Your Life
How to Recognize the Destroyer in Your Home
Lesson 132 – “Gil Bates, Part 2: How God Supplied our Needs”
Lesson 131 – “Gil Bates, Part 1: The Beginning of Our Story”
How to Make a Difference When You Get Home
Some Practical Truths to Strengthen Your First Year of Marriage
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What are some things we can focus on as a couple to keep the marriage a we-centered marriage instead of…
Some Practical Truths to Strengthen Your First Year of Marriage
Beware of Pitching Your Tent Towards Sodom
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Have you ever thought that Lot may have left Abraham because of the failures that he had seen in Abraham’s…
