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Rich Lambert
Mar 30, 20232 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20223 min read
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 27, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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 18, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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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