Discipling Teens in God-Glorifying Relationships

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert As Christian parents, we recognize that our sovereign, loving God placed our children in our care with the Great Commission charge to make disciples of them. When they hit the teen years, our children start to face challenges in their relationships with the opposite sex that our spiritual enemy will [...]

You’ve Got What it Takes

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By Natalie, Editress of Visionary Womanhood Did you know that you have three parts? Your body, your soul, and your spirit. Your body is like the tip of an iceberg. It’s above the water where everyone can see it. Your soul and spirit are the huge part of the iceberg that lies under the water [...]

The Most Difficult People to Witness to: Your Family

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By Contributing Writer, Marci Ferrell  But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26 When I first started writing this post I wanted to title it, “How Not to Witness to Family Members.”  I believe I have more qualifications in writing about all my failures [...]

Avoiding Strained Relationships With Adult Children

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By Contributing Writer, Marcia Wilwerding Over the last twenty years I have witnessed and experienced personally the heartbreak of strained relationships between parents and adult children. If you are struggling with this area of family relationships, I hope to share some key principles which may help smooth the way to an outcome which brings peace [...]

A Complicated Relationship: Honoring Your Parents in Adulthood

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By Contributing Writer, Tyanne Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Ephesians 6:1-3 At 17 years old, I loved Jesus with all [...]

God’s Plan For Our Children’s Relationships

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By Contributing Writer, Terry Covey Life’s Early Lessons It’s an awesome thing to consider that God cares about our children even more than we do!  And part of that care is the clear instruction in His Word for us parents on the relationships our children will have in life.  A huge part of parenting is [...]

The Power of My Words in Relationships

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By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford I had vented to my husband on his drive home from work. Well, what else was I supposed to do with this onerous child who had me at my wits end? I mean, my husband and I are a team, we have to tackle this thing head on, and he [...]

Introducing our May Topic: Relationships

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God created us to be in relationship with Himself and in relationship with other human beings. It is part of how we are hard wired. Since the fall of the human race into sin, the enemy has taken what was meant to be beautiful and fulfilling and turned it into plain old hard work. Hey, [...]

Love is Not a Facade: 1 Corinthians 13:6

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© fotovika – Fotolia.com By Contributing Writer, Stephani Dignity & Love For the past three years my family and I have been attending a wonderful church in Minnesota. I have been stretched and blessed in so many ways by the teaching, worship, fellowship of believers, and the godly women surrounding me. How many times have [...]

The Unselfishness of Christian Love: I Corinthians 13:5

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By Contributing Writer, Marci Ferrell “…or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;” 1 Corinthians 13:5 How does my Christian life measure against these characteristics of true love?  When we begin to understand that love is only love when it acts, and that it is not just [...]