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Category Archives: Family
Don’t be a Busybody
The KJV uses the word “busybody” or “busybodies” three times in the New Testament. (1) 2 Thessalonians 3:11, “For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.” (2) 1 Timothy … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Word Study
Tagged 1 Peter 4, 1 Timothy 5, 2 Thessalonians 3, allotrioepiskopos, busybody, oversee, periergazomai, responsibility to others
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In The News: China’s New Parental Law
USA Today reported on December 28, 2012 of a new law in China, saying, “Beijing – visit your parents. That’s an order. So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its laws on the elderly to require that adult … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Tagged china, family, honor father and mother, in the news, visit parents
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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, Work
Tagged Calvin Coolidge, expectations, father, history, son, Warren Harding, work
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A Father’s Advice on Marriage
Mike Reagan was to be wed on June 13, 1971. Ronald Reagan wrote this letter to him in regards to the wedding: Dear Mike: … You’ve heard all the jokes that have been rousted around by all the ‘unhappy marrieds’ … Continue reading
Posted in Family, History, Marriage
Tagged marriage advice, Mike Reagan, Ronald Reagan
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“Loving Too Much”
In a keynote speech at the 1952 Republican Convention, Congressman Walter Judd told this story about helping his daughter with her homework. He said, “I can get the right answer almost every time, and she would like to have me … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fellowship, Parenting
Tagged Enabling, love, Luke 15, Parenting, Prodigal Son, Tough Love, Walter Judd
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Do Good Parents Always Produce Good Children?
Some parents struggle with this question. They do this because the Bible does say, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6)However, we do have … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Parenting, Textual study
Tagged ahaz, Hezekiah, manasseh, Parenting, Proverbs 22:6
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Unique Families
Unique family arrangements are nothing new. (1) Following the death of Haran, Abram seems to have taken Lot into his home (Gen. 11:27-28, 31; 12:1, 4). Josephus wrote, “Abraham married Sarah, and since he had no children, he adopted his … Continue reading
the good employee
Do you feel the efforts you put forth each and every day on the job are going unnoticed? Do you feel your employer had treated you unfairly? Is nepotism occurring? Do you feel like giving up? If these words describe … Continue reading
Marital Issues
When marriage is what it is supposed to be it is wonderful. Husbands are to “so love their wives as their own bodies” (Ephesians 5:28) and “even as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it” (Ephesians 5:28). Wives … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Marriage, Money, Sex, Tongue
Tagged children, communication, expectations, family, husband, inlaws, intimacy, marriage, mixed religious marriages, money, religious differences, roles in home, tongue, upbringing, wife, words
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