I was thinking this morning of so many that are hurting right now and in need of a Comforter. We have a precious daughter that never leaves the concerns of our hearts. She has helped to teach me the meaning of “pray without ceasing”. What came to my heart this morning is that no greater...
Category: Help for the Home
The Value of Problems
1. Problems provide us with greater opportunitues. 2. Problems promote our spiritual maturity. 3. Problems prove our integrity. 4. Problems produce a sense of dependency. 5. Problems prepare our hearts for ministry. (more empathetic)
Laying a Good Foundation | Taking a Youth Group From Chaotic to Christ-Honoring
I have always enjoyed working with and preaching to teens. They are exciting, unpredictable, curious, energetic, needy, moody, loving, unloving, kind, mean, etc. When I finished Bible college, my first ministry was being a youth pastor for a good church. It was so rewarding and it gave me so many early gray hairs. It seemed...
Thoughts on the Home | Goodly Heritage
“Sadly, too many parents measure the spiritual temperature of their children by their ability to abstain from worldliness, instead of how deeply attracted they are to godliness” “If I fervently nurture holiness in the life of my children, then, I can faithfully trust God to keep them from worldliness.” “I missed out on the possibilty...
Growing up PK | Eight Pearls Discovered from Ministry
You find so many mixed reviews when you start asking kids what it is like to grow up in a preacher’s home. For many, they will immediately whine about the pressure of growing up in the ministry “bubble”. “I can’t be myself”, they will often exclaim, “because everyone is watching me.” Some will complain about...
Walking the path together
Can two walk together except they be agreed Couples must agree on their DIRECTION in life. Couples must agree on their DEVOTION to God and each other. Couples must agree on their DEPENDENCE on God in every part of their marriage. Couples must agree on the DOCTRINE of the Word of God. Couples must agree...
What Is Your Game Plan?
Tragically, many of the lessons in life that we learn, we often have to learn them the hard way. We gain the knowledge, but, we also gain the bruises along with it. It would be a lot easier to inquire how to shoot a rifle than it would be to shoot that 300 mag with...
Who Really Needs the Change
“If there is something glaring that we see needs to be changed in a child, we may first need to examine if that child has become a mirror, portraying that the need of change is in the character of the parent and not the child. May we desire our children to become more like God...
A home built to be blessed
In Genesis 18:17-19 the Bible says this, 17- And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18- Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19- For I know him, that he will command...
The Heart of our children
“May we plant in our children’s heart such a desire to know God, that when they grow older, the desire of their soul will be to know that same God in a far deeper way.”