Shhhh……the time to celebrate the coming of the King is almost upon us! His glorious appearing is fast approaching. Have you prepared a way? Have you prepared your heart? The …
Just Graduated? Now What to Do? Part 2
Since it is now December, and another new year is almost upon us, this is a good time to re-evaluate the priorities in your life. See my previous article, as …
To Be Discreet
We have been looking at things that God commands the older women to teach the younger women: to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. We want …
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The Mother’s Opportunity
This is a portion from a book dated 1883 and it contains excellent advice for mothers.A Mother’s OpportunityMothers, you are the divinely-appointed teachers and guides of your children; and any …
Little Things
Across this world, grand edifices remain for us to admire. What man builds can last a good long time if it be built well. This remains true for the Christian …
I Would Know More of Thee
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:Proverbs 6:16Building a relationship with a person involves getting to know them initially and growing that knowledge …
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To Love Their Children
The next things that Paul says that the older woman is to teach the younger woman is: to love their children. It is easy for most Moms to love their …
Home Government
A very relevant word from 1883. Print, post, and practice for maximum application and blessing.The Home Government –What is it?It is not to watch children with a suspicious eye, to …
The Subtle Art of Comparison
Recently I’ve been struck with the thought, I think of myself far too often. Does this resonate with you? Timothy Keller, in his book The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness, says …
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The Settled Christian
I came to the realization I was never at peace. Never at rest, never enjoying the moments God was giving me. It started with my first real “no-kids” date with …
Without the Rain
With the rain, the gloom I see, With the rain, the light doth flee, With the rain, despair will be, I question why God gives us rain. Without the rain, …
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Dependence and Humility
“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”John …
Rain
The room slowly darkens. The morning sun has been shrouded with a cloak of impending precipitation packaged in a darkening cloud overhead. The leaves on the trees begin to stir. …
To Love Their Husbands
We have been looking at what the older women are to teach the younger women, found in Titus 2:3-5:“The aged women likewise that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, …
Failing Upwards
I sat at my desk and blew a pesky strand of hair out of my eyes. My cheeks were heated and I looked carefully in the reflection of my computer …
Thoughts from Exodus
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD …
Cold
In the cast of the floodlight of the dark morning hours, the snowflakes descend lightly, haphazardly toward the hardened soil. No precipitation can penetrate its diamond surface now. Ten thousand …
What Now?
“Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” …
Teaching the Younger Women
We have looked at the character of the older woman. She is to be an example in her behavior, her speech, her whole manner of living. What purpose does Paul …
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Keep Your Heart
“Keep your heart with all diligence;for out of it are the issues of life.”Proverbs 4:23 I don’t know how many years ago it was, I don’t know the date or …