Your assignment from God is not to change your spouse, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to them.
The Bible will teach you, correct you, instruct you, and give you hope.
To last, a marriage and family must be built on love – love for God, and love for one another.
One of God’s high callings for His people is that they be teachers of good things.
At the fork in every road, choose the road that brings you nearer to God.
As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today’s trials as well as for all tomorrow’s challenges.
Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified.
God’s Word is a map you can safely follow as you travel through life.
The Bible is the most important part of your faith.
Obedience is the key ingredient in living out God’s plan for you.
He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.
My kids’ lives aren’t about what I want. My kids’ lives are about making their own decisions and getting the consequences and coping with those.
The people in makeup would buff away the shine on the face of anyone in front of the camera, and the sound blokes would clip a microphone onto the lapel of a jacket so it looked like something other than an insect about to crawl onto the presenter’s chin, but Steven Spielberg this group was not. This was a low-budget operation, thank you very much.
He might well have gone on to bow with a flourish had not the precarious position of his codpiece precluded any sudden movement.
As I’ve always said, when the ship is sinking, one may as well bash a few holes in the bow.
The Messiah is not imagination. It’s the truth. It is promised.
My boy,” he said quietly, “we have not forgotten. We feel as you do. In his heart every Jew grieves at our captivity. We have need of patriotism like yours. But we have need also of patience. We must not say we cannot endure what God in His judgment has visited upon us.” “But how long – must we endure it for ever?” “God has not spoken His final word. Until He does, it is our part to endure.
Day after day Matt tramped the woods alone, trying to shake the doubts that walked beside him like his own shadow.
There was something strange about this country of America, something that they all seemed to share and understand and she did not.
The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths. Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.
What I mean is that one’s whole life is an autobiography, don’t you agree? Whether it gets written or not doesn’t make a difference. What goes into it, though? That’s what counts.