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Covenants In Marriage

I think the idea of Covenants might be relevant to a problem in marriage relationships. As you say, when a covenant is broken, a relationship suffers. Human relationships, being dynamic, can’t be controlled through rules (legalism). Strategies are better – ways to recognise when sin intrudes into the relationship, ways to help repair the damage […]

Healing The Pain – Being Able To Move On And Sympathize With Others

Something that you can explain next time someone tells you to “Get over it” … Something you can give those who just don’t understand …… When You Just Can’t “Get Over It” PAIN. Without a doubt, pain acts as a common denominator between all of us. Whether physical, mental, emotional, spiritual or financial, we have […]

Marriage Not Divorce Is Our Focus.

TITLE: Marriage not divorce is our focus. Text: Mark 10. 2-16 God calls us to have a wonderful relationship with him and with each other in this world. So his call is to constantly address the question of: Are our relationships healthy? The important aspect of marriage that we should focus on here is not […]

Testimony Of A Divorcee

Rowland, I read your commentary on divorce. I ended my 26 year marriage about 5 years ago as I was tired of his mental abuse (making me sit with him on a number of occasions in the dark when he was cocking and uncocking his gun; a lot of furniture throwing) and flagrant infidelity (picking […]

Do You Feel Old This Year (2001)?

Just in case you weren’t feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year staff at Macquarie University in Sydney put together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of the new year’s incoming students. Here is this years list: The people who are starting university next […]

Homosexual Unions

Conservative, moderate Baptists speak out on Wake Forest homosexual union By Todd Starnes WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (BP)–A homosexual ‘marriage’ performed at Wake Forest University’s Wait Chapel has raised the collective eyebrows of conservative and moderate Baptists in North Carolina and across the nation, while the Baptist minister who performed the ceremony called the ‘marriage’ a blessing […]

Feminists Have No Womb For Anyone Else

Source: Los Angeles Times; March 29, 2001 By Norah Vincent [Pro-Life Infonet Note: Norah Vincent Is a Freelance Journalist Who Lives in New York City.] Ours is a country in which you are ill-advised to be a fetus. The highest court in the land has ruled that you’re a parasite, disposable at will, even when […]

A Father’s Day Sermon

[Preached at Waverley Christian Fellowship, Melbourne, Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd September, 2000]. Bible reading: Luke 15:11-32 Happy Father’s Day. Which Dads have brought something to church which you received for Father’s Day – something you’re wearing, a new Bible, a toy :-)??? For many of you Fathers’ Day is not easy. Some of you […]

The Abortion Movement

The Abortion Movement Reveals Its True Colors Source: Chicago Sun-Times; March 25, 2001 The Abortion Movement Reveals Its True Colors by Betsy Hart The right-to-life movement seems to be the most vilified movement in our popular culture today. But over and over again I’m struck by the same thing: The cause of the pro-life activists […]

Financial Freedom

L I V E I T Today’s best advice from Christian books. http://liveit.crosswalk.com/ HOW TO ACHIEVE FINANCIAL FREEDOM Financial freedom manifests itself in every aspect of the Christian’s life – relief from worry and tension about overdue bills, a clear conscience before God and before others, and the assurance that God is in control. God […]