‘Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory.’ Romans 15:7 NLT Comment Marriage is a lifelong process of learning to live together. We do this by accepting one another. I find it easy to accept some aspects of my partner’s character and behavior – the ‘good’ bits …. However, I must...
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. Matthew 6:24 Comment Money is a tool designed for the purpose of enabling activities and transactions. Problems come when we put money before God, when...
Your beauty, within and without, is absolute, dear lover, close companion. You are tall and subtle, like the palm tree, and your full breasts are like sweet clusters of dates. I say, ‘I’m going to climb that palm tree! I’m going to caress it’s fruit!’ Oh yes! Your breasts will be clusters of sweet fruit to me, Your great clean and...
“That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable...
Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 NLT Comment About 10 years into our marriage my “Ph.D. in psychopharmacology research” husband set up his own building company with all the attendant risk and stress. I did ask myself if I had signed up for that! But I...
We even boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance brings God’s approval, and his approval creates hope. This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God’s gift to us. Romans 5:3-5 GNT Comment: All couples go through difficulties and...
Scripture: Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 NIV UK Comment: Recently our family borrowed a river boat and spent a day travelling along a stretch of the Thames. For most of us, six adults and two small children, it was our first experience of navigating through locks. All hands...
I believe in Jesus I believe he is the Son of God I believe he died and rose again I believe He paid for us all Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. John 14 v 11 Comment The disciples...
Many plans are in a man’s mind, but it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand. Proverbs 19 v 21 AMP Comment We are always being told to plan – career progression, church growth, children’s futures, – “getting on”. Sometimes this can make us anxious – are we getting it right? Will we miss out if we choose...
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it. Prov 18 v 21 Comment Q. “What’s wrong with men?” A. “Everything they say and everything they do” We laugh because it’s a joke, but relationships come to grief when criticism becomes entrenched – one spouse can’t think...
