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Category Archives: Marriage
In The News: The Get Out of Jail Free Card
Do you remember playing the board game Monopoly? There is a “Get Out of Jail Free” card that can be drawn from the Chance or Community Chest cards. This card can be saved and played when needed. This is how … Continue reading
Posted in Holy Spirit, Homosexuality, Marriage, Sex
Tagged book of order, completeness of revelation, conscience or Bible, creed book, general assembly presbyterian church, get out of jail free card, gopusa, holy spirit subjective guidance, in the news, michael l. brown, monopoly, onenewsnow, pandora's box, pcusa, presbyterian church, same sex marriage, time to leave presbyterian church
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Thoughts on Male-Female Interaction
Charles Hill (now deceased) taught a class call “The preacher’s life and work,” at the school of preaching I attended. He advised that preachers should avoid being alone with a female in counseling, Bible study, or personal visits, or in any other … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Marriage, Preachers, Preaching, Sex, Temptation
Tagged anita hill, appearance to others, avoid alone situaions with opposite sex, charles hill, clarence thomas syndrom. clarence thomas, counseling, false accusation, gossip, jealousy, joseph and potiphar's wife, reputation, rumors, suspicion, tamar and amnon, temptation, the preachers life and work, watch the money and the honey
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Marrying “Only in the Lord”
These words are found in 1 Corinthians 7:39. In that passage; we are told: (a) that a widow may marry again; (b) that she may marry “whom she wishes”; (c) But, if she marries, she should marry “only in the Lord.” Now, I … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Marriage, Phrase Study, Textual study
Tagged 1 Corinthians 7, chart, daughters of zelophehad, marry only in the lord, Numbers 36, widows
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Marry A Strong Christian
I firmly believe that who one marries is one of the most important decisions one will ever spiritually make, it may determine where you spend eternity. Marry someone who will help you to heaven. Do not marry anyone who would … Continue reading
In The News: Is Divorce Contagious?
CBS reported recently: “Forget about the flu that has been going around – there is something else that is contagious and could put your marriage in jeopardy… A study from Brown University suggests that divorce is contagious, and the divorce of … 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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We’ve Been Duped!
Valentine’s Day is near, you know that day that men (and women) are expected to show that special someone how much they love them. Sometimes this is shown with the purchase of diamonds. Diamonds are mentioned four times in the … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Love, Marriage
Tagged a girls best friend, borneo, brazil, cecil rhodes, debeers, diamonds, india, john stossel, love, russia, soth africa, Valentine
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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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