A Meeting With Carol And Her Boyfriend

Filial piety requires children to give their parents the respect that they owe them.Filial piety requires full obedience to parents in one’s lifetime, and is also required for children to perform certain rituals after death of

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (Eph. 6:4, English Standard Version)

Summary: Dr. Hawkins has done a wonderful job in presenting the essential elements of what it takes to have a Biblically sound intimate and committed marriage. In Strengthening Marital Intimacy (1991), he has captured the two foundational truths, intimacy and commitment, makes a good marriage into a great marriage. It is not enough to know the Word of God intellectually there must be a real surrendering to the sovereign will of God. To do it will transform a life of commitment to God and to the marriage. The key concepts presented in this book cover marital intimacy, commitment, wisdom, reality, God’s sovereignty, the person, sexuality,

Hmm! children do you see how important that we have parents who love the Lord? Parents who will teach their children to love God as well? How about you little one, do you love God? Are you willing to do what

Wife of Bath What women want is a question that has been asked for thousands of years. It is strange that it is such a conundrum in the American society due to the cultural roots in judeo christian values. Ephesians 5:33 says, “However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” This verse is a sister verse to many that all share a common theme.

The congregation has mixed feelings about Carol and her family. Their responses to her have been from loving her and her family in any way they can to complaining and being angry about her lifestyle. Some of the ladies in the church gave her a baby shower with child number

Because the Lord values the relationship of a man and his wife, he also gives us instructions as to how husbands and wives are to treat each other through Paul’s teaching in Ephesians 5:21-33. The subject of Paul 's teaching in Ephesians 5:21-33 is that of submission in the context of marriage. Paul 's instructions here create a clash with the beliefs and practices of our culture today. However, a closer study of what God really intended sheds much light on what is really being taught in this hard saying of Paul. Paul is talking about the different roles the both the husband and wife has with each other in relationship with their relationship with Christ.

God made his heart concerning marriage and the family unit clear in the book of Genesis as it states that, “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let not man separate.’’(KJV)

But, through all of this heartbreak, Harmony and her brother just radiate joy. Also when they open up about their lives, Team Browning was deeply touched. We were able to pray for them and remind them of the lesson that we went through in one of the previous kid's clubs, The Lord is our good Shepherd and he cares for us. There is redemption to their family too, a few months ago Harmony, her mother, her older sister, and her brother went to church and got baptized. Since then Harmony has come to Kids club most weeks eager to learn more about God, and she reads her Bible in class every day. When I asked her what her favorite book or story of the Bible was, she replied “Titus”, which she is reading through at the beginning of

Ephesians 5:21-33 addresses the roles of the husband and the wife in light of the position each holds as a result of being in Christ. The passage is located in the latter half of the book of Ephesians, which is developed primarily around the “walk” passages. Chapter 4-6 are the direct application of chapters 1-3. The commands to husbands and wives are found in the last exhortation to walk carefully. The focus of the exhortation to “walk carefully” is a variety of relationships: husband/wife, children/parents, with a focus on fathers, and slaves/masters. This passage teaches how redemption and the sanctification process is to affect these relationships, including the marriage relationship between a man a woman. In other words,

He stipulates that man must love give himself to his wife, as Jesus gave Himself to the Church.

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. (English Standard Version, Ephesians

It is the ceremonial act of publicly consecrating a child’s life to God, undertaken by parents, during a worship service in the temple. Through this symbolic rite, parents, on one hand, promise to raise the child in the fear of the Lord, and the congregation, on the other hand, commits to help the parents achieve such a goal by keeping an eye on the child in the community and by encouraging them to bring the child to Sunday schools, worship services, and other church activities in relation with his Christian training.

“For the husband; is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church and he is the savior of the body?”

Remember what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13? Verse 5, “Love does not seek its own.” Husbands, make sacrifices for your wife, put her interests before your own, and demonstrate the kind of sacrificial love that Christ gives to us.