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Category Archives: Family
A Few Great Lessons from Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
The purpose of this article is to stimulate the interest in Bible students to study these often overlooked books. To many, these books are dry, uninteresting, and contain little application to life today, after all it was written to be … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Bible Study, Family, Giving, life, Mercy, Tongue
Tagged 1 Corinthians 16, Abortion, babe, brephos, corners of field, Deuteronomy 23, Exodus 12, giving, joseph abd mary were poor, levites were to give, Leviticus 12, Leviticus 19, life, Luke 2, Matthew 12, murmurring, Numbers 18, pharisees traditions, plucking grain on sabbath, poor, traditions, value of old testament
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Does God Hear the Prayers of Sinners?
This is not a question which can be answered with a simple “yes” or “no.” The terms need to be defined before answering. What is meant by “hear”? The word “hear” can mean “to hear a sound without understanding” (e.g. … Continue reading
Little Details
An ancient proverb reads: “For want of a nail, a shoe was lost – For want of a shoe, a horse was lost – For want of a horse, a battle was lost – For want … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Study, christian growth, Family, Fellowship
Tagged ancient proverb, attitude, battle lost, battle of bosworth, Bible reading, bible study, england, family devotions, horse, horse lost, horse shoe, horse shoe nail, issues between friends, issues in family, johnny ramsey, king richard III, kingdom lost, little details, shoe lost, small details
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God’s Safety Net
Some think that it is primarily the government’s or the church’s responsibility to care for those in need. I have seen church members, who were able to relieve a family member in need, refuse to do so themselves, but instead … Continue reading
Thought Provoking Stats For Parents and Teens
Here are some stats that I have come across in my reading, and have filed away in my files. If accurate, they are thought-provoking. I want to share them with you. 1. FATHER IN THE HOME W. Bradford Wilcox, an assistant … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Ethics, Family, Marriage, Parenting, Stats, suicide
Tagged age differences in dating, age of boy friend stats, aim for success, al gore, alan guttmacher william galson, alcohol, australia, behavior correlaions, bill bennett, bill clinton, bruce ellis, californian vital stats, canada, cigarette, cohabitation, crime, dating age, divorce rate for those who lived together before marriage, elaine kamarack, elizebeth thomson, john antill, john cunningham, joural of marriage and family, larry bumpass, living together before marriage, macquarie university, marijuana, marilyn morris, new zealand, police, poverty, premarital sex, princeton, prison stats, puberty, rebecca maynard, rush limbaugh, school drop out, single mom stats, smoking, suicide stats, suspended from school, sweden, teen mom stats, teen pregnancy stats, the weekly standard, trial marriages, ugo colella, united states, university of arizona, university of californina at san francisco, university of virginia, university of wisconsin, value of father in home, w. bradford wilcox
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In The News: What Will Future Homes Look Like?
Some months ago, (this article was first written in February 2006) there was a big push for America to recognize homosexual marriage. The mayor of San Francisco was licensing and performing such marriages, defying the state. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Homosexuality, Islam, Marriage, mormon, Mormons, World Religions
Tagged adam and eve, group marriage, Homosexuality, Islam, koen brand, marcinella belgium, massachusetts, Mormons, muslim, pandora's box, polyandry, polygamy, rosendale netherlands, same sex marriage, san francisco mayor, serge and christine and katrina and judith regnier, stanley kurtz, the weekly standard, unitarian church, victor and bianca and mirjam de bruijn
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The Value of a Wife and Mom
It is no secret. Women typically earn less income than men. “For American women twenty-five and older who hold at least a bachelor’s degree and work full-time, the national median income is about $47,000. Similar men, meanwhile, make more than … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Marriage, Parables, Stats
Tagged career choices, educational choices, gender education comparisons, gender income inequality, gender wage disparity, hours worked, income gap, income inequality, job flexibility, married men v. single men incomes, pregnancy, rearing children, single women v. married women incomes, stephen dubner, steven levitt, the sacrifices of motherhood, thomas sowell, university of michigan law school, value of mom, value of wife, work interruption
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A Father’s Expectations
President Warren G. Harding was dead. He died at 7:35 p.m. on August 2, 1923. He was in San Francisco, California, having just completed a visit to the territory of Alaska, the first visit by a president. The cause of … Continue reading
Posted in Family, History, Parenting
Tagged Calvin Coolidge, expectations, father, Proverbs 22, warren g. harding
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