What comes to mind when you hear the word “family”?

The same word could trigger varying responses: a warm, comforting sense of love; a deep, aching hurt or confusion; a sharp, bitter anger or resentment; or a cold, empty apathy and ambivalence. These mixed emotions towards family are inescapable – each of us may have been hurt ourselves or is likely to know at least one person who has had negative experiences with their family, and some seemingly with no end in sight. Such

In the early days of my pastoral ministry, I was drawn to books, sermons, and meetings which had a revival theme.

Then it dawned upon me one day that pastors can be so enchanted with stirring this movement in their churches, without realising that it could actually be an indictment of their own ministry.

If as a pastor, I say that my church needs revival, is that not an acknowledgment that my