Closer to Home – Work: I fantasize about going “postal” at work…

I’m grateful that I have a job in today’s economy. I am extremely blessed that I can provide for my family while there are many hard working honest men who at this time cannot. I thank God everyday that if my family gets sick or injured things will be cared for. I am privileged just [...]

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Closer to Home – Parenting: Wake-up Call

Wake-up Call
Last week Doug and I were able to get away for a few days to Gatlinburg, TN for a belated 10 year anniversary.  We were only gone for three nights, but that is the longest period of time that we’ve ever left the kids, and we have never left Luke before this.  So, needless to [...]

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Closer to Home – Marriage: Whose Body Is Trump?

1 Corinthians 7: Whose body is trump?
Now for the matters you wrote about: ‘It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.’ But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital [...]

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Closer to Home – Women: Practical Submission

 Ephesians 5, spotlighted in “Practical Submission,” shows us how Christian husbands and wives are to relate to one another. But thankfully, the Bible is not silent on the situation where a believing wife is married to an unbeliever. 1 Peter 3:1-2 says,
Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any [...]

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Closer to Home – Men: Transformation Demonstration

Key Bible Verse: “I pray also that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me” (John 17:21). Bonus Reading: John 17:21-23
In effect, Jesus said, “The world [...]

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Closer to Home – Singles: Single Truths

Single Truths
In today’s Boundless article, Elisabeth Adams tells the truth about her singleness:
 
I want to be married.
Shouldn’t that have happened by now?
 
At first I ask, How do I change this? Then, as resignation sets in, I wonder, How do I survive singleness? In particularly painful moments, I want to know more: Why should I be [...]

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Closer to Home – Work: Hope When Job Hunting

Finding Hope in the Midst of a Job Search
Chris Salzman
 
The anxiety of losing a job can be crippling. One feels as if the life they have cultivated over the years just collapsed, and even in good economic times job searches take time. One’s purpose in life seems fleeting as the days of unemployment start to [...]

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Closer to Home – Parenting: Steps to Family Devotions

 Mark Driscoll gives a realistic approach to doing family devotions at dinnertime: 
Step 1. Eat dinner with your entire family regularly.
Step 2. Mom and Dad sit next to one another to lead the family discussion.
Step 3. Open the meal by asking if there is anyone or anything to pray for.
Step 4. Someone opens in prayer and [...]

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Closer to Home – Marriage: The Glory of a Christian Marriage

The Glory of Christian Marriage
Now, what’s the difference between a Christian marriage and any other marriage?  For the most part I think a lot of people get married in the church for ceremony.  They say the right words, but don’t really include God in their decision.  It’s ceremonial or tradition, not from the heart.
 
I think [...]

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Closer to Home – Women: Trophy Wife

Real Trophy Wives
 
“In our society, women are repeatedly told ad nauseam, by those periodic packaged lies called women’s magazines, that it is their responsibility to deck themselves out in such a way that they ‘keep’ their man. A woman may be able to do this successfully in her twenties, and then have to work [...]

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