There is a parenting movement called “Jesus The Gentle Parent.” Was Jesus The Gentle Parent? First of all, He was never a parent and didn’t raise children. His purpose was to point people to their need for a Savior. He wanted people to clearly see their sin and that the wrath of God was upon them because of it. If their eye caused them to sin, He told them to pluck it out. If their hand caused them to sin,…
Thirty seven years ago, we said “I do” in a little Baptist Church right next door to Master’s College in Newhall, CA. We were both 22 years old at the time. When I was getting ready in my bedroom at my parent’s home, one of my bridesmaids came in and warned me that I shouldn’t go through with the wedding. She had been married just a short while and was terribly angry at her husband that day so she let…
Written by Kate Singh (with some of my additions, which I believe are biblical in parentheses) The house is empty all week. It just sits there. A $1,700 to $3,000 mortgage. No one uses it really. Everyone works 60-hour weeks to pay for a home they don’t use. They have a yard that has grass, nothing really living and producing. Just water-wasting grass that is another thing to deal with on the weekends. They have dogs that don’t get walked…
We were discussing public schools in the chat room last week because one woman told me that the high school her son attends is the “darkest place” she’s ever stepped foot on. I drove past that school the other day and I saw young teenage girls with their stomachs and breasts half uncovered, tight jeans, and short shorts. I grieved for them along with the guys who were exposed to this all day long. One woman asked what she should…
“She is to the home keeper, to take care of her husband, to provide for him and for the children, all that they need as they live in that home. Materially, she is to take the resources the husband brings home and translate them into a comfortable and blessed life for her children. She is to take the spiritual things that she knows and learns and to pass them on to her children. She is a keeper at home. God’s…
As I wrote on Sunday, there’san all-out war on men. Some women think they’re better than men so they need to begin taking control over everything.Matt Damon said in an interview with ABC Newthat men are being lumped into “one big bucket” when in reality there is a “spectrum of behavior. You know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?…Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without…
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. Proverbs 31:31 Recently, Joy told me that she loves to make her husband hearty and delicious lunches to take to work. All the other men that work with her husband, Jim, see his lunches, and Jim tells them what an amazing wife he has been blessed with. This man is praising his wife “in the gates.” A wife who serves and pleases…
As we all hear of all of these sexual harassment claims against men, we can easily deduct what is happening. It’s an all-out war on men. Women think they’re better than men so they need to begin taking over everything. President Obama even said, “We need to elect more women because ‘men seem to be having problems.’” Then there’s news that another ceremony, where Hollywood continues to congratulate and worship itself with yet more awards, is going to be run…
There are many songs about how broken we are as Christians, as I am sure you have heard. We sing it in praise songs in church, read about it on blogs and in books, and we hear it from the pulpit. We’re all so broken and a mess…but are we? If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you are NOT broken. In fact, God calls you a saint. For he hath made himto besin for us, who knew no…
Written by Genevieve Greenwood It’s funny how life works out sometimes. I had been in the workforce since I was about 12. My first job was babysitting my little cousin full time. Later, fast food, then management, then call centers, and eventually banking. I had a decent job dealing with credit card identity and transactional fraud. My oldest child has autism, Tourette syndrome, and a host of other medical issues. I’ve always dealt with his medical needs personally, and it…