I am convinced that commitment, not love, is the basis for marriage. It is the fact that we promised each other before God and not some romantic feeling that keeps us together and keeps us faithful to one another. Our promises, not our feelings, are the foundation of marriage.
That’s right!
However, it is easier to keep the commitment if you love the person you are living with. ...
The most important thing about suffering is not why it happens, but how we respond to it. Attitudes, not answers, are the keys to triumphant living. To know why suffering comes does not ease the pain or heal the hurt. But if we respond to it correctly, it can make us better regardless of its cause.
How we respond to suffering is entirely up to us. We do not get to choose our experiences...
Someone once asked John D. Rockefeller how much money it would take to satisfy a man. He replied, “Just a little bit more.” Every one of us must be on guard constantly against that greedy, selfish spirit that makes money a god and things the supreme desire of life.
To save us from the slavery of materialism, the Lord has commanded us to use our possessions to honor him. Proverbs 3:9-10...
To a startling degree, American parents have handled their primary duty of child rearing to educational institutions or babysitters who cannot and will not do the job. Because of our divided lives, most young people are left to grow up without adequate guidance from their parents.
Parents need to wake up. Parenthood is not just biological. It is also moral and spiritual. Parents who br...
There is planted in every person a sense of right and wrong and he is often called on to choose between these two. Today it is increasingly more difficult to make a distinction between them because our standards are sometimes muddled.
In the face of moral decisions, some people say, “I do as I want.” They reject all standards of morality and live only for their own ple...
A guest star on a TV show once said, “Two things I’ve had in life, and both ample—good advice and bad example.” This has been the experience of most people.
Most of us are careless or just too thoughtless about our influence. Every person’s life is a profession of faith. Every person’s conduct is an unspoken sermon that he is forever preaching to others. Someone said years ago, “Every m...
Can a person be a Christian in business? Will religion and business mix? Is God interested in the way we do our work? To say no to these questions is to relegate God to a place of no importance in that area where we spend most of our time. To say no is to make God a Sunday god, and a Sunday god is no god at all.
On the other hand, to answer yes to those questions is to transform your j...
All too often the newspapers tell us of some terrible crime that has been committed. What causes a person to do such a thing? While no man can know the heart of another, part of the answer must lie in the Bible truth: “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). Any student of psychology knows that habitual thinking along a certain line will ultimately lead to action in harmony...
In marriage it is more important to be the right person than to find the right person. If people thought more of their responsibilities and less of their rights, most marriages would be happier. Every Christian husband and wife should major in self-improvement.
Christian wives should seek to develop a beautiful spirit. There are some people with a beautiful appearance and an ugly spirit...