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Not My Children!

Not My Children!

 

Most of us have seen the card-pack form of advertising in which we receive a bundle of postcard-sized ads related by some common theme like family life, church ministry, or home schooling. A pack recently sent out was devoted to youth ministries in the church—and was it ever an eye-opener!

 

Bear in mind that these ads are directed at youth workers in Christian churches (words in quotation marks are directly from the ads):

 

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A Father’s Job Description

A Father’s Job Description

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If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. This platitude applies to many areas of human endeavor, but nowhere is its truth more sobering than in the matter of fathering. If we don’t know the purpose for which God has given us children, then how can we ever fulfill that purpose? If we don’t know the goal of child raising, how can we ever reach that goal? If we don’t know our job… Continue reading

How to Marry: Courtship Questions

God’s Design for Scriptural Romance

Part 7 – How to Marry: Courtship Questions

by John W. Thompson

 

When discussing the subject of biblical courtship, certain questions repeatedly are asked. I hear them at conferences where I speak as well as through emails via our ChristianCourtship.com web site. They are no doubt on the minds of many Christian dads, moms and young people today. These inquiries fall into two primary groups: (1) questions about courtship and (2) questions during courtship.… Continue reading

How to Marry – The Courtship Stage

God’s Design for Scriptural Romance

Part 6: How to Marry – The Courtship Stage

by John W. Thompson

 

Nearly all of us – dads, moms and children – have observed a house being built. Some of us have even had a hand in a construction project or two. So we can all relate well to our Lord’s warning NOT to build our house (life) on the shifting sand of man’s flawed values (Matt. 7:24-27). Christ wants us to construct… Continue reading

How to Marry – The Friendship Stage

God’s Design for Scriptural Romance

Part 5: How to Marry – The Friendship Stage

by John W. Thompson

 

Nearly every day, in personal, phone or email counseling, a young man, young woman, dad or mom will say something like this to me: “I am fully convinced of the error of dating and the blessing of biblical courtship and betrothal. But HOW, specifically, do I go about it? What is God’s step-by-step process for bringing about a marriage the biblical… Continue reading

Featured Gospel Message

Christ Died For The Ungodly

by Horatius Bonar

The divine testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner. God bears witness against him, not for him; and testifies that "there is none righteous, no, not one"; that there is "none that doeth good"; none "that understandeth"; none that even seeks after God, and, still more, none that loves Him (Psa. 14:1-3; Rom. 3:10-12). God speaks of man kindly, but severely; as one yearning over a lost child, yet as one who will make no terms with sin, and will "by no means clear the guilty." <continued>