When Little Lambs Meet a Wolf
When little lambs meet a wolf, the rest of us stumble. How can this be?! We don’t understand! It isn’t supposed to happen like this!...
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Rich Lambert
- Mar 27, 2023
- 4 min
Family Worship With Other Families
Jesus had a rotating cast of dinner companions—friends and disciples, sinners and tax collectors and new converts, pharisees and lawyers,...
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Rich Lambert
- Mar 18, 2023
- 2 min
A New Kind of LENT
I don’t give up anything for Lent. I used to. Chocolate. Wine. Beer. Coffee. (that was dumb…) Salty snacks. Desserts. Television. The...
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Rich Lambert
- Mar 11, 2023
- 2 min
The Secret to POWERFUL Family Worship during Lent, Holy Week & Easter
The worst preaching of the church occurs during its biggest holidays. On Easter 2020, in the heart of the Pandemic lockdown, my family...
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Rich Lambert
- Dec 4, 2022
- 3 min
Monster at the Manger
Why it is ‘worship’ to slip a dragon into your nativity scene. There is a long biblical tradition of God mocking his defeated enemies....
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Rich Lambert
- Nov 28, 2022
- 3 min
What IS Family Worship?
Understanding what Jesus intends for us. If we were alive in the Gospel stories, if we lived in the time and world of Jesus’s...
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Rich Lambert
- Nov 20, 2022
- 3 min
A Tornado in the Pew: The ordinary miracle of family worship
On a recent Sunday morning, I had trouble paying attention in worship. A single mom and her two kids sat in the pew in front of us. It...
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Rich Lambert
- Nov 12, 2022
- 3 min
Gorging Ourselves on Gingerbread
How family worship can save us from binge-ing on the wrong stuff. One Christmas our gingerbread house went missing. For two whole days it...
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Rich Lambert
- Nov 6, 2022
- 4 min
What Do Christians Do With Santa?
How family worship saves us from overreactions to pop culture. Remember the scene in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe where Santa...
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Rich Lambert
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
Does family worship WORK?
A testimonial from a college student raised on family worship. Ever since I can remember, every day in our household ended with family...
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Rich Lambert
- Oct 23, 2022
- 3 min
3 Selfies at a Stoplight: how family worship radically transforms our standard of beauty
I am officially a fossil. A geezer. A curmudgeon, and a crank. I am so “old” in my ways that I don’t fit in the world anymore. Or is it...
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Rich Lambert
- Oct 19, 2022
- 3 min
Shaped by Stories: finding and wearing our identity in family worship
The poet Muriel Ruykeyser said, “the universe is made of stories, not atoms.” I once quibbled with a physicist over this quote. “That’s...
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Rich Lambert
- Oct 19, 2022
- 2 min
The Secret to GOOD Family Worship is Planning Ahead: a template for family worship DIY
It’s happened to all of us. We sit down to do family worship together, everyone takes their seats or places, and someone asks, “So what...
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Rich Lambert
- Oct 8, 2022
- 3 min
Toddler Evangelists: never too young to start family worship
Eighteen years ago we hosted a neighborhood Christmas party. It was a great celebration. Lights, decorations, music, neighbors, food,...
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Rich Lambert
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
Family Worship: NO Binoculars Needed
Family Worship brings your family up-close to the savior who surprises This Sunday morning in church, the kid in the pew in front of me...
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Rich Lambert
- Sep 26, 2022
- 3 min
Blending Old Traditions With New
To update family worship during the holidays, don’t throw out your old traditions, add to them. We wrote and designed Far From Home in...
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- Sep 21, 2022
- 2 min
The Cheerios Game
Everything I know about worship I learned from a toddler and a ziploc bag of Cheerios. My wife and I had accepted an invitation to spend...
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