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Romance
‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment.’ And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:37-39) Beloved, […]
Marriage Myths
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them ‘Humankind’ when they were created. (Genesis 5:2) Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.’ (Genesis 2:18) God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be […]
Marriage God’s Idea
Preached at Boronia Baptist Church by Rev. David Morland Sunday 10 September 1995 (Scripture: Gen 2:20-25) In the image of God. Here is the first statement in the bible that something is not good – V18. It is not good for the man to be alone. It is not good, for we cannot be fully […]
Power Of Love
Before eating his food. Joey would string an imaginary wire from an imaginary electrical outlet at the table. Insulating himself with paper napkins, he would plug himself in before he would eat. Joey needed motors, radio valves and transistors to run him through the day. Nine-year-old Joey was obsessed with the notion that he was […]
Being A Christian Parent
Lynette’s father was a little Hitler, a tyrant, according to her childhood friends. She was not allowed to eat with other children in the dining room but was banished without reason to the kitchen. She got the silent treatment often from her father. He disliked her intensely. "Her father’s treatment scarred her badly," an old […]
Teenagers: What Makes Them Tick?
12/4/94 ADOLESCENCE IS TOUGH BUT YOU CAN MATURE THROUGH IT! Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’ (Ecclesiastes 12:1) Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother […]
Happy Families
HOW DO THEY GET TO BE THAT WAY? Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you. The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us. (Psalm 67:5-6) We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. (Romans 14:7) How very good and pleasant […]
Happy Marriage
‘Marriage is nature’s way of preventing us fighting with strangers.’ Marriage is beautiful, fulfilling and difficult. After 35 years and three months of marriage, and 11,000 hours of pastoral counseling, I have learned twenty things about good and bad marriages. (Ten myths about marriage to follow). But first my definition of marriage: it is a […]
Worship
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. (Mark 12:30) Things that we have heard and known, that our ancestors have told us, We will not hide them from their children; we will tell to the coming […]
Family Relationships
Happy is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways. (Psalm 128:1) This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24) Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalm 37:4) My soul shall rejoice in […]
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