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Why Christians Should Not Obtain A State Marriage License

Five Reasons Why Christians Should Not Obtain
A State Marriage License

by: Pastor Matt Trewhella

 

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Every year thousands of Christians amble down to their local county courthouse and obtain a marriage license from the State in order to marry their future spouse. They do this unquestioningly. They do it because their pastor has told them to go get one, and besides, “everybody else gets one.” This article attempts to answer the question – why should we not get… Continue reading

Training Your Children For Christ

Training Your Children For Christ

by General William Booth

Edited and paraphrased by Martin Bennet

 

There are certain things that parents must do – indeed, that only parents can do – if their children are to become true servants of God. I don’t want to hide the fact that what I’m setting before you will not be gained without considerable difficulty, carefulness, and work. However, nothing truly good or great is ever accomplished without trouble. I am certain that… Continue reading

Home Schooling Resources

Home Schooling Resources

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“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” [Proverbs 22:6]

 

Whose values do your want your children to have when they grow up? Yours or the values of God’s enemies? Your values or the values of people who think you are totally unfit to teach your own children, especially when it comes to moral and religious matters? Who even knows what all your… Continue reading

Family-Centered Training After High School

Family-Centered Training After High School

 

If men and women of antiquity could somehow be transported through time to our present era and culture, they would probably be dumbfounded by the number and kinds of choices that are granted to individuals in our society. As we have already noted, during Bible times parents exercised a decisive control in the arrangement of marriages. For the most part, a man’s choice of vocation was similarly determined. Sons usually took up the occupations… Continue reading

The Religious Nature of Education

The Religious Nature Of Education

by David Sant

 

I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. –Deuteronomy 5:6-7

 

ALL EDUCATION IS RELIGIOUS AT HEART

 

Most Americans think of education as a value-neutral arena in which children are taught the knowledge and skills they need to function as adults in society. As Christians, we must realize… 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>