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Month: September 2021

The Lack of Discernment in Most People

The Lack of Discernment in Most People

Many people lack discernment. Even many Christians lack this important quality. What is discernment? Here’s the 1828 Webster Dictionary’s definition: “DISCERNMENT, noun The act of discerning; also, the power or faculty of the mind, by which it distinguishes one thing from another, as truth from falsehood, virtue from vice; acuteness of judgment; power of perceiving differences of things or ideas, and their relations and tendencies. The errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.” I saw this in…

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Wanting a Sunny Home

Wanting a Sunny Home

When looking for a new home, the first thing I looked for is a sunny home. I wanted a home with a western or southern exposure. I like a lot of sunlight in my home! It makes the home cheery. Homes that face the north have hardly any sun in them. I wouldn’t want a dark home. (I love a sunny church too, which we now attend! Truth is also preached boldly.) Florence Nightingale was a nurse from long ago….

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Feelings of Love in a Marriage

Feelings of Love in a Marriage

Throughout my many years of mentoring women, I have never once mentored a woman in a difficult marriage to manufacture feelings of love towards her husband. In fact, I have never taught that feelings have anything to do with love. When I teach women to love their husbands, as I am commanded in Titus 2:4, I teach them to begin submitting to their husbands, learning what pleases them, serving them, being kind and affectionate towards them, kicking critical thoughts about…

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She Brought Peace and Stability to Their Home

She Brought Peace and Stability to Their Home

Written By Hannah Schrock in No Greater Joy Magazine Growing up, Mama had a system and it worked to bring peace and stability to our large and growing family. Nearly every day when the clock rolled around to 4 pm, Mama would have us all start getting ready for the evening. We each cleaned up our jurisdiction, creating a neat environment so our minds were subconsciously more relaxed. Once things were in order, dinner was started. Mama always had dinner…

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He’s Looking For a Godly Wife

He’s Looking For a Godly Wife

A woman has a son who would love to meet a godly woman who wants to be a wife and mother. He’s having a hard time finding any woman who wants these in her future. Here is my response to her: Dear Becky, I encourage your son to find a solid, biblical church that is teaching Truth boldly and unashamedly. Master’s Seminary is producing incredible pastors. He can hopefully find a church through this link: Find a Church He needs…

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Women Were Created to Bear Children

Women Were Created to Bear Children

All of the women in the Bible who couldn’t have children mourned deeply. Their own bodies were betraying them. Their monthly periods reminded them of this fact. Women were created with ovaries, wombs, eggs, fallopian tubes, and breasts. They were created to bear children. Women today who are barren and want children mourn deeply. Most women in the Bible had lives that revolved around being wives and mothers. There was no birth control. They needed husbands for protection and provision….

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Making a Mockery of Marriage

Making a Mockery of Marriage

Our culture mocks marriage. The Church hasn’t helped any in upholding the sanctity of marriage. In a large church near us, the couple who ran the premarital counseling for over 35 years, told us that when they began this ministry, none of the young couples in the church that they mentored were fornicating (living) together. Now, almost all of them are. The few who aren’t are a breath of fresh air. Living together is nothing like marriage. It’s not “test…

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They Have Tasted Careers and Are Not So Fond of Them

They Have Tasted Careers and Are Not So Fond of Them

“Many 19-year-old girls, I’ve talked to many of them, believe that their career it going to be the most important thing in their life. Very few 30-year-old women believe that, even if they have high-powdered careers…” (Dr. Jordan Peterson). The 30-year-olds have tasted careers and have found them to not live up to the expectations that they were told all of their lives. From the time girls are young, they’re asked what they want to be when they grow up….

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God Created Us to Be Married

God Created Us to Be Married

From the beginning when God was creating the world, He said that it was not good for man to be alone, so He would create a help meet for him (Genesis 2:18). In Proverbs 18:22, we are told, “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.” In Proverbs 5:18, young men are admonished, “Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.” Then men are told this: “House and riches…

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Use Wisdom in Marrying a Man, Not Feelings

Use Wisdom in Marrying a Man, Not Feelings

My husband and I met during our last semester of college. We were very attracted to each other and had a great time together. We began dating in February 1980 and married that December. I had no relationship with my dad growing up. He worked very hard to provide, but he wasn’t around much. He was an only child, so he didn’t talk much. I never felt close to him. Whenever we asked him if we could do anything, he…

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