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Category Archives: Family
Loving Loyalty
Society is filled with self-centered people. It always has been, to one degree or another. It is all about them. They are only your friends or close family members, so long as they see a direct benefit to them. The … Continue reading
Posted in Chruch, Endurance, Family, Fellowship, friends, Love, Marriage, Priorities
Tagged Andrei Shleifer, baby boomers and church, brethren/local church, church shopping, Cicero, Cicero On the good life, Doug Bernheim, elisha hoffman, fair weaher friends, four areas of growth, frances havergal, friends/Family, husband/wife, ineritance, john hobbs, Johnson Oatman, Larry Summers, Levitt and Dubner, love, loyalty, News Week, parent/child, retirment homes, self-centered, Singapore, song I will be a friend to Jesus, song to Christ e true, song true hearted whole hearted, stephen dubner, super freakonomics, The Compelling Power of The Cross, visiting elderly parents, Wade Roof
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A Quiver Full of Arrows
“Behold, children are a heritage (gift NASB) from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward” (Psalm 127:3). The reason that humans can reproduce is because God gave them this ability. He could have made them without this … Continue reading
Peace Series: Peace or Sword?
“Do not think that I came to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Peace, Textual study
Tagged committment, john w haley, loyalty, Luke 12, Luke 12:51-53, Matthew 10, Matthew 10:34-35, opposition, peace, peace or sword, peace series, religious conflict, sword
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Two Are Better Than One
“There is one alone, without companion: He has neither son or brother. Yet there is not end to all his labors, nor is his eye satisfied with riches… Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for … Continue reading
Posted in Ecclesiastes, Family, Love, Marriage
Tagged bill bennett, book the moral compass, castle of weinsberg, charlotte yonge, duke frederick, duke wolf, Eccesiasties 4, emperor konrad, germany, middle ages, story the wives of weinsberg, two are better than one, wives love of husbands
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Appreciating His Work
“He who mistreats his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and reproach” (Proverbs 19:26). “The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise child will delight him. Let your … Continue reading
Posted in Appreciation, Family, Parenting
Tagged appreciating father, Appreciation, changing view of dad, edgar guest, father, mark twain, poem father, poem only a dad, work
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Eating Together
“These words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house…” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7). The family sitting at the table … Continue reading
Posted in drugs, Family, Money, Parenting, Sex, Stats
Tagged alcohol, cnn, cornell, Deuteronomy 6, drugs, eatting together, economics, electronics, in the news, nutrition, Parenting, purdue, Sex, television, the university of minnesota, tobacco, value of family meal
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So, You’ve Got A Little Power!
In Psalm 82 God addressed the judges of old. He referred to them as “the might,” and even as “gods.” Why are they referred to as “gods”? The word “god” has reference to might, strength, authority, or position. Some have positions of … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Elders and Deacons, Ethics, Family, Government, Marriage, Parenting, stewardship, Textual study
Tagged 1 Peter 3, abuse of authority, Acts 5, bribes, Colossians 4, emplyer and employee, Ephesians 5, Ephesians 6, fathers provoke not, husbands love wives, judges, masters treatment of servants, men called gods, power corrupts, prejudism, Psalm 82, rebuke of gods, submission, use authority for good, use od authority, ye are gods, you shall die like men
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Appreciating Her Work
“Who can find a virtuous wife, for her worth is far above the rubies. The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days … Continue reading
A Mother Makes a Difference
“The Educated Child,” a book by William J. Bennett, Chester E. Finn Jr., and John T.E. Cribb Jr., contains this story: “About 150 years ago, a mother in Port Huron, Michigan took her son out of school after a teacher called … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Nature, Parenting, science
Tagged addled child, book the educated child, chester finn jr, home school, inventor, john cribb jr, mothers influence, parents influence, physics primer, poem when mother reads aloud, port huron michigan, school, scientist, the school compendium of nature and experimental philosophy, thomas edison, william bennett
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In The News: Marriage Mistakes
The Huffington Post ran an article on December 29, 2014 by Sloane Bradshaw entitled, “4 Huge Mistakes I Made as a Wife (I’m The Ex-Wife Now).” Here is her list… 1. I put my children first. She wrote, “Whenever my … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Marriage, Parenting, Tongue
Tagged 4 huge mistakes I made as a wife, all attention on kids, anger erruption, bill flatt, build up do not trample, build-a-bear, careful with words, communication, enforcing boundries, flaunting superiority, forgiving, I did not fight the right way, I did not set boundries with my parents, I emascualted him, I put my children first, in laws helping out, in the news, kids free date night, leaving and cleaving, looking for faults, no space from in laws, respect, science museum, silence is sometimes wrong thing, sloane bradshaw, spouse before children, spouses friends, stay on topic, suppressed anger, the golden rule, the huffington post, unannouced company
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