Tag: commitment
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Making Room For Jesus
My parents were married on June 9, 1967. The following morning, they awoke to a call from hotel management offering not to charge them for the night’s stay if they would vacate immediately. The hotel had overbooked and they needed that room for some VIP.
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Parenting Basics: Requiring First-Time Obedience
If you’ve ever wondered why almost all parenting guides from pamphlets to tomes list “Consistency” as one of the keys to parenting, this is it. Because if I want my children to obey me quickly when it matters, I must require that they obey me when it, seemingly, doesn’t matter.
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Honeymoon
Even good marriages have conflicts and low points, and in our individual journeys of faith, we may have times that we find our spiritual enthusiasm waning. But sometimes it is the very tribulation, the problems, the conflicts, the difficult things that lead us back to hope. Why? How?
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Escape Routes
Escape routes are important when there’s danger. The problem is we’re always trying to escape the wrong things. We want to escape responsibility and suffering, death and judgment, but that is not possible. We ought to be concerned with escaping the devil’s snare (2 Timothy 2:26), for that is God’s concern. It is not possible…
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For Those Who Are Contemplating Divorce
So often what leads us to thoughts of divorce is not adultery but simply a cycle of conflict that we don’t know how to break. And so often what we come to hate about our spouse is just another form of the thing we loved in the first place.
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Dependent Faith
God expects us to have a sense of commitment to each other, right? What does scripture require us to do for “one another”?
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He Said, She Said
And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no…
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