- Mon, Jan 18, 2010
- Marriage and Family
Are we in adultery in view of Matthew 19 to marry again after divorce?
The key to your question is understanding the meaning of "commits adultery" in Matthew 19:9.
Resources: Marriage and Family
- Tue, Jan 12, 2010
- Church, Culture and Worldview, Marriage and Family
Educating tomorrow’s church—whose job is it?
WHAT IS EDUCATION?
LEARNING: The process by which every person acquires a certain body of knowledge, and a corresponding set of personal values, attitudes, behavior, and skills.
STUDENT: A person with a highly impressionable mind, significantly affected by the knowledge, values, attitudes, and behaviors of others, especially by those in positions of authority.
- Sat, Sep 01, 2007
- Marriage and Family
Myth of Adolescence
The trained elephant of India is a perfect picture of the power of psychological captivity. Tamed and utilized for its enormous strength, the great beast stands nearly 10 feet tall and weighs up to 5 tons when fully grown. Its tasks may include uprooting full-grown trees, hauling great boulders, and carrying enormous loads on its shoulders. And yet, when the day’s work is done and this powerful beast must be kept from wandering off during the night, its owner simply takes a piece of twine, attaches it to a small branch embedded in the ground, and ties it around ...
- Thu, Mar 01, 2007
- Christian Life, Marriage and Family
Waiting to Get Married?
“Should we get married?” Few questions deserve more careful attention. When dreamy-eyed recklessness yanks people into marriage, the end is often conflict, disillusionment, separation, and divorce, or at best, a second-rate marriage.
- Sun, Jan 21, 2007
- Christian Life, Marriage and Family, Sexual Purity
Fences Bring Freedom: How Boundaries Can Liberate Us
We live in the same house that we did when our daughters were small. Now they're grown and we have four grandsons. All those years our daughters were growing up, we never built a fence in our yard. There was no need.
- Tue, May 02, 2006
- Culture and Worldview, Marriage and Family
My first shower nearly killed me
When I find myself thinking that this current challenge is going to kill me, I just remember that I thought the same thing about my first shower.
- Fri, Dec 03, 2004
- Culture and Worldview, Marriage and Family, Sexual Purity
Hey Kids! Want Good Sex? Try Abstinence.
As a mental health counselor, I am really troubled by the numbers of adolescents that I have counseled who cried for days and hurt for years because they engaged in “safer sex” within dead end, unfulfilling relationships. Sadly, they learned that “safer sex” can be hazardous to their emotional health.
I think the current political debate concerning abstinence vs. contraceptive based sexual education has failed to include an important variable in the discussion of what to teach in school: sexual well being.
In many contemporary sexual education curricula, young boys and girls who listen carefully in health class will be ...
- Fri, Oct 01, 2004
- Marriage and Family
Keeping Your Child from the Internet’s Dark Side
Remember that teenagers lack wisdom and experience; they need your involvement.
- Mon, Jan 01, 2001
- Christian Life, Marriage and Family
Needed: A Counter-Revolution
It requires only that we humble ourselves, that we learn, affirm, and live out the biblical pattern of womanhood, and that we teach the ways of God to the next generation.
- Fri, Oct 01, 1999
- Culture and Worldview, Marriage and Family
Exploiting the Generation Gap: CosmoGirl! Vs. Parents
Imagine if strangers approached your 12-year-old daughter and said they wanted to talk with her about her problems at home, at school and with boys. You’d probably be pretty upset. After all, who has the right to give your daughter advice—especially on what’s going on at home? Shouldn’t she be talking to you?
Not according to a hot new magazine called CosmoGirl! The way the editors see it, parents are preachy and out of touch with what teenage girls need to hear. And CosmoGirl! aims to fill that void. It’s the latest example of how ...
