A Prayer for Spring

A Prayer for Spring

Our Father in Heaven, We thank you that in our area of the Midwest it has been a rather mild winter. Though it seems that across the country, from west to east, from the south to the northeast, there are new major winter storms almost every week, we have gotten very...
CRITICISM

CRITICISM

CRITICISM I sometimes tell leaders who are under fire, “Well you got that WOE off your back.” They wonder what I mean. So, I say, “You ought to feel good. Jesus said in Luke 6:26, “Woe to you when all men speak well of you.” They usually chuckle with me as we remember...
What Are the Husband’s Responsibilities?

What Are the Husband’s Responsibilities?

Husband and wife are of equal worth before God. Both bear God’s image, but in differing ways. Marriage models God’s relationship with His people. “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her” (Ephesians 5:25). Now that is...
CRITICISM

Spring Planting

Spring Planting Spring Planting – The Farmer Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering his seed, some fell along the path and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not...