Weeping in the New Year
"Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom" (James 4:9).
Read a Book in 2011
Jesus said the greatest commandment we could possibly endeavor to obey is to "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Matt 22:36, emphasis mine).
The Gift of Christmas
"Thanks be to God for His inexpressible gift!" (2 Cor 9:15).
No Need to Ask, They're Bold To Tell
Top story on the evening news tonight (NBC) was the inevitable repeal of the so-called "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) policy for our military. That policy states, in essence and to my understanding, two things:
Give Thanks
During this week that we Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, may I encourage parents to spend a few moments teaching your children of the history of the holiday. This is easily accomplished via a Google search of the Plymouth Colony. Quite `rank`ly, the Charlie Brown special aired a few nights ago is pretty good, too!
Marriage Haters Club
"Then the Lord God said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make a helper that corresponds to him' " (Gen 2:18).
The Makings of a Man
Most of the dating discussion thus far has focused on Daddy's and Daughters. There is both a practical and theological reason for this emphasis.
Dating A Better Way
By now it should be obvious I believe Christians need to shun anything remotely resembling what our culture calls "dating." We need to shun it ourselves. We need to raise our sons and daughters to shun it.
Dating and Dads
Fatherlessness is killing the very soul of our nation; for it is destroying our homes. Beyond this, fatherlessness (defined as the physical absence of a Dad in a home/family, or the functional absence of a Dad in a home/ family) is setting the next generation of homes up for failure. It exists as a generational curse if ever there was one.
The Kiss of Death
"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine" (Song of Songs 1:2).