What does your family look like? For some of you, the word family has happy and positive connotations—loving parents, well-adjusted kids, and a home that serves as a peaceful refuge from the stresses of the world. For others, your family might be nothing like that—maybe your family life is marked instead by anger, frustration, and damaged relationships. Maybe you don’t have much of a family at all.

For most of us, our family life falls somewhere between those extremes. Wherever our family relationships fit along that spectrum, we can all stand to work at improving existing relationships and mending broken ones. God considered healthy family relationships important enough that he mentioned them in the Ten Commandments. This week at Gospel.com we’ll be looking at different ministries and resources aimed at bringing your family life and relationships a bit closer to the ideal that God had in mind for us. And as we look closer at our relationships with other people, we’ll gain a few insights into our relationship with God as well.

We’ll kick things off with a look at Winning at Home, a ministry that “encourages people at all ages and stages of family development to lead Christ-centered homes.” One of the first things you’ll see on their website is their regularly-updated collection of articles covering marriage, parenting, and other family-related topics. Their articles cover everything from dealing with in-laws to parental self-control to the effects of divorce on children.

In addition to the articles, there is plenty of audio content to explore at WAH, starting with frequently-asked questions about family and relationships, answered by experts Dan Seaborn and Peter Newhouse. You can also tune in to their Family Stuff Program podcast with iTunes, and watch short video clips of Dan Seaborn offering family and relationship ideas.

There’s plenty to check out at WAH—the articles alone should keep you reading for quite a while—so take a few minutes to explore what they’ve got, and to find out if any of WAH’s free material can provide insight into your family situation. And stay tuned this week as we feature more family and marriage resources from around Gospel.com!

By: Andy. This entry was posted on Monday, January 14th, 2008 at 11:07 pm and is filed under Family. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.