Family
Marriage And Communication
RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)–Married couples can communicate at fivehierarchical levels, and one of them is not screaming, a husband/wifeleadership team said during a Fall Festival of Marriage at Ridgecrest(N.C.) Conference Center. "The more often the husband and wife can reach and remain atthe higher level of communication, the more satisfying theirmarriage," said Deborah Brock. who with […]
Why Do We Try To Control Others?
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). When a person’s self-worth or success hinges on the achievement of a goal which can be blocked or which is uncertain or impossible, how will he respond to those who frustrate his goals? Often he will attempt […]
Headship – Some Reactions
How the Ancient People Thought of "Head" "How seriously have you considered what the ancients might have considered the human head to be? Back in those days, when they thought with their heart (& felt with their bowels) and had no concept of the function of the gray matter in their skull, they must have […]
Parental Authority
David Morgan referenced the New Yorker article on peer influence that argues for the declining influence of parental authority while peer influence is central to persons of the teen age group. I admit I haven’t read it yet but have already heard about it from several sources so it must be intriguing. Apparently Harris (the […]
Youth Today
(Allowing for the American context, the following will nevertheless probably shock many of us. Perhaps somebody could try to produce a comparable local or international list. – Moderator) The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1980. They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era, and did not […]
Spiritual Awareness
Solid food is for the mature who, because of practice, have their senses trained to discern good and evil (Hebrews 5:14). In many counseling cases I am able to sense in my spirit that something is wrong or that the real issue has not surfaced. Sometimes I seem to know what it is, but instead […]
Sexual Addiction
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Powerful, charismatic, isolated and bored, President Clinton fits the profile of a man ripe for sexual compulsion, according to therapists who treat this disorder. Called sexual addiction, sexual compulsion, success syndrome or even the “Clinton syndrome,” men who suffer from it are driven more by a desire for risk […]
It’s A Kid’s World
In January last year, 12-year-old Rachel Timperon e-mailed the first issue of her free weekly newsletter for young Christians from her home at Molesworth in the Derwent Valley, and her world changed overnight. Within a month she found that she was the editor of a publication going via the Internet to children in 16 countries, […]
President Clinton’s Sins Aren’t Private
By FRANKLIN GRAHAM, WSJ 8/27/98 Few people have lived a more public life over the past 50 years than has my father, Billy Graham. I can assure you that the Billy Graham you see in public is the same one we children have seen at home. He has spent a lifetime making sure that his […]
How ‘Church’ Can Become ‘Family’
How ‘Church’ Can Become ‘Family’ All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. (Acts 2:44-45) Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you […]
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