Healthy Families: The Children’s Responsibility
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. Ephesians 6: 1-3 As we continue this discussion on the family, the last relationship that is a…
Healthy Families: The Wife’s Responsibility
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Ephesians 5: 21-22 So here we go! This is the scripture that tends to be quoted the most in conservative Christian circles when describing the relationship that a wife needs to have to her…
Anxiety, Part 2
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Philippians 4: 6 Anxiety should never be found in a believer. In spite of the magnitude, quantity, and diversity of our trials, afflictions and difficulties, anxiety should not exist under any circumstances. This…
Heathy Families: The Husbands Responsibility
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be…
Healthy Families and Communication
Probably the most difficult problem in a marriage and also in the home to address is the problem of ineffective communication. With the many other causes of divorce, for instance, you can turn to an action or something tangible that has led to the ultimate demise of the marriage. With communication , or the lack…
Healthy Families vs. Unhealthy Finances
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 Timothy 6: 10 Another of the top reasons that leads to divorce and adversely affects the family are financial issues. The following quote is from…
Healthy Families Vs. The Sexual Revolution
Going back to the Pew Research Study and in particular the chart above that shows the percentage of children growing up in the various “family” arrangements. Starting in 1960, one will begin to see the gradual decline of the traditional two parent household. As stated in the previous post, when you look at the 1960’s…
Healthy Families, Introduction
There has been much said recently in the media concerning those that would try to destroy the traditional family. However, that process actually started many years ago. From the Pew Research website, in a study dated December 17, 2015 entitled Parenting in America, the research shows a steady decline in the traditional nuclear family from…
Healthy Relationships
Due to recent current events in the United States, it has caused me to examine how we, as the church, can be more effective in being leaders in the efforts to finding a solution. Whether it be the response to the coronavirus pandemic or the response to the racial unrest that continues to plague the…
A Good Heart
But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Matthew 13: 8 Matthew 13: 23, Mark 4: 20, Luke 8: 15 Jesus ends this teaching with giving understanding to his disciples on what it takes to have a good heart. While Matthew and Mark stick with the…
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