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The Three Greatest Things to Learn about Your Husband

The Principle of Three Couples

How Listening Can Save Your Marriage

Who will you invite to church?

Filling Our Emotional Reserves

Become a World Changer by Nailing This Marriage Thing

Lessons from Job (the person, not the profession)

Prepare for His Arrival by Holly Eaton

Guard Your Family Members This Holiday Season

Life Is Too Short to Go It Alone

Uncovering more of God's Priorities for Balanced Living

4 Vital Reasons to Be Still

Sep 22, 2017
4 min

4 Vital Reasons to Be Still

Psalm 46:10 powerfully proclaims, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." I remember the first time I was encouraged to practice the wisdom of this verse. It was the summer of 1986, while I was preparing for a summer missions project to the former Soviet Union. I was in New York and the project leads asked us to spend 30 minutes practicing the discipline of being still. Not praying. Not problem solving. Not drea

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Getting to Balance and Finding the Sweet Spot

Jennifer Edwards

Sep 9, 2017
3 min

Getting to Balance and Finding the Sweet Spot

In the last article about finding balance, we learned that for the Christian, a balanced life is lived “knowing” within yourself that you are at the center of God’s will for your life. You are where you are supposed to be, doing what you’re supposed to be doing in your time or life stage - in your place - using your gifts, talents, and resources - for those people God places in your life. In case you missed it, click HERE. This article will begin a series of things you can do

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Aug 27, 2017
3 min

Breakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 27:8

Proverbs 27:8 "Like a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home" Everyone exists in a place, which is the nexus of the web of their relationships. This is how we tell who we are: we are so and so's daughter; we are from this national heritage; we are married to…; we have these children; we work for…; we worship this way; we live in this country; we have these friends. All of these relationships are like latitudes and longitudes that determine who

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Aug 26, 2017
3 min

Breakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 26:8

Proverbs 26:8 "Like one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool" This has been a somewhat cryptic proverb for years because of how the Hebrew was translated. In the KJV it was translated like one who throws a stone on a stone heap, so is one who gives honor to a fool. The NASB has uncovered what is most likely the correct translation of the text. binds a stone in a sling This is the Hebrew word sarar which means to bind, to tie up, to narrow, to be in

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Aug 25, 2017
2 min

Breakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 25:8

Proverbs 25:8 "Do not go out hastily to argue your case; otherwise what will you do in the end, when your neighbor humiliates you?" Clearly this is counsel not to respond to the emotionality of a situation and a wrong suffered. Give it some time so you can get past your immediate reaction. Abraham Lincoln, on more than one occasion, would write out his immediate response and feelings in a letter to the person. He would never send the letter, but it allowed him to get it all o

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Aug 24, 2017
3 min

Breakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 24:8

Proverbs 24:8 "One who plans to do evil, men will call a schemer" The word plan is the word for thinking, imagine, and devise. It does mean plan, but it can also mean daydream and fantasize. The person who is always fantasizing about evil will end up committing some form of evil. At first the only evil they commit is not accomplishing the good that they could have been doing. But eventually the lure of actually doing evil draws them outside of the boundary lines of God. We mu

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