Days are longer, schedules are different, and young people have more free time. Summer is the perfect season to give extra attention to your family. Over the next couple of weeks we have intentionally kept our travel schedule lighter, in order to give some time to our family before the summer marathon of meetings begins. I hope that you will make an effort over the coming months to set aside additional time just to be with those you love. So soon the moments will be gone.

In the spirit of this emphasis we are providing some special family resources this summer:

• On our ETJ blog you can find a number of helpful articles related to the home. It is easy to waste the summer months and young people can easily get bored. Just a few days ago we shared a very helpful guest post on how to help your children make the summer profitable. (Read the full article here.) You may also like to read “How to Make This the Greatest Summer of Your Life” which provides 6 practical suggestions we all can apply. Use the search engine on the ETJ site and you will discover other tools as well.
• Each Saturday for the next few weeks we are posting a specific message on the home. The first comes from Noah’s family and may be found on our Youtube channel or on our Enjoying the Journey weekend pulpit. We are praying the Lord will use each study to help you build a family of faith.
• On Tuesday’s we are making available messages on the Godhead. Many people have tried to explain or symbolize the Tri-une God, but it is impossible to fully describe the great “three in one.” But, did you ever notice that the only illustration of the Trinity given in Scripture is one of family? Father, Son, and Spirit live in unbroken union and communion. Perfect charity, diversity, unity, and eternity are an example for us all! Watch the first message in the series: “The Perfect Family.”
• Our current ETJ daily podcast series on the “Cries from the Cross” will continue through next week. Then we will begin a brand new study through the book of Philippians – a “Summer Road Trip!” Our goal is to learn from this treatise on Christian joy how to enjoy the journey together as a family. Watch for more on this new series soon…

One final word: Be sure to keep your family connected to your church family this summer. This is not the time to drift and neglect the local assembly. We need one another and we all need the Lord.

This Saturday Tammy and I are ministering in a couples’ conference and then a family focus Sunday in a local church. Our family deeply appreciates your prayers and we hope to cross paths with many of you in the days ahead. May God make this the most fruitful summer in your home.