Jenga is Swahili for "build." You stack 18 levels, three blocks wide, and then everybody starts pulling pieces out. The tower stands or falls on one thing: what's underneath.

Pastor Shannon opens a new series on the family with the game on stage and five building blocks that decide whether a home holds up.

Authority. A Roman officer in Matthew 8 gets something most religious people missed, and Jesus is amazed by it. Get the order right (God, then your spouse, then your kids, then your job) and everything else has somewhere to sit. The Bible never says family first. It says seek first the kingdom.

Identity. The day your identity shifts from Jesus to your kids is the day you stop living for Jesus and start living for them. Children are arrows, and arrows have a target. Three ways parents get this  ...