A good parallel to a dead-end job is the world of slavery. Paul deals with a worst-case scenario. If you doubt that Scripture understands your work situation, then you have misunderstood the natuer of slavery. This particular passage includes at...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
One way to live an extraordinary life is to become a godly parent. Different cultures accept distant fatherhood as normal. Yet Scripture doesn't consider this normal. Exemplary fatherhood can't be reduced to physical discipline. It includes...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Do you, as a father, demand respect from your children? Are you parenting in such a way that you make it easy for your children to sin? Are you requiring your children to perform to such a degree that you are pleased, or are you serving them to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
It is not rare to meet a man who thinks that bringing up children is a woman's job. This has a devastating effect on a family and even an entire society, nation, and on history. Studies have shown that more than seven out of ten children who grow...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What a surprise was in store for Naomi. She stayed at home, unhappy because she has been brooding over her calamity. She has been viewing God negatively. Yet, rather than rebuking her, God crushes her with grace. Ruth returns home with...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The wonderful protection and provision Ruth found while living in danger, may have seemed too good to be true. Yet it continued. Her character may also have seemed striking to Boaz, yet he saw it proved over months of menial work in the hot sun....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A young woman overcomes significant challenges in order to do what is right. There are so many things against her success, yet she goes anyway; hoping for some kindness. Against all odds, she stumbles "by chance" upon a kind man who cares for her....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In addition to the fact that the global fertility rate has been dropping for the past fourty years, many people today even fight for the right to kill their children! Millions place very low value on children. Yet in contrast, God places immense...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
You will impact your family, regardless of how you feel about it. Husbands and fathers have a daunting role. How many fathers abdicate or flee from this weightly responsibility. To love your wife is to learn to become a giver rather than a taker....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Fear is not the ultimate motivation. Temporary joy is just as bad. What will motivate you when you are suffering? This was the challenge facing Peter as he wrote to his scattered audience. Extraordinary suffering calls for extraordinary...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
