Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing posted a helpful blog on how we work through times of uncertainty. He proposes seven questions: 1. What if this isn’t the end but a new beginning?2. What if the answer to my prayer is just over...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
To have more time available for prayer and reading is most delightful to a spiritual soul, yet the faithful discharge of business or domestic responsibilities is more profitable to others and more pleasing to God, if He has so appointed them. The...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Daily Mail ran an article (reposted on You Will Read News) about manhood's downward slide. It reports that, "Britian's Mr. Average, will spend 10,585 hours in the pub, 11 years in front of the TV and learn to cook just four meals in his...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Here is something I read in the past from William Gouge, in Domestical Duties, writing in 1627 on Ephesians 5 in the section on the role of a husband. I have never heard anyone ever express this, yet it is so true and has been so helpful to me...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What kind of young women do we pray for in times like these? Certainly not uneducated, backward, or repressed women, but those who are marked by their happy faithfulness to the biblical vision and characterized by what is best in Christian virtue....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Consider the seventh command, "You shall not commit adultery" (Deut. 5:18) This command will initiate a celebration of the wonderful commands of God for marriage. This command takes us into the deepest recesses of the heart of God's love for men...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Here is the vote: 74% of the people in the world believe a woman's place is definitely NOT in the home. "The survey of over 24,000 adults in 23 countries, conducted by Reuters/Ipsos and released on the eve of International Women's Day, showed that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
One of the messages we like to pound home is that young men should not spend their years of youth playing games. Solomon touches on one of the reasons why - it reflects a gigantic absence of "understanding,' and the stupidity of following what is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Reasons men keep their mouths shut on the issue of women in authority John Knox proposes three reasons why men shrink back and say nothing about women ruling over men, even when such an obvious biblical principle is being violated. The first...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Bible says that when a woman refuses to be a keeper at home she causes the Word of God to be blasphemed. This means that she creates conditions that discredit the Word of God. It gives people reason to rail against God. Instead of glorifying...[ abbreviated | read entire ]