Archive for the 'Family Values' Category
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It is very sad, disheartening, horrendous and heart breaking to see the increase in knife crimes and deaths of teenagers in our society today. Young lives being wasted just like that. The pain and trauma families that have lost loved [...]
July 5th, 2008 | Posted in Family Values, Parenting, Personal Development, Uncategorized | No Comments
It is important that we do all that we can to encourage the faith walk of our children. We cannot walk that walk for them, but we can certainly cheer them along and help to remove stumbling blocks.
There are many ways in which we can do this, but I would like to mention just [...]
March 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Family Values, Parenting | No Comments
Wives, submit to your own husbands as is fitting in the Lord. Whether you are a full time house wife, or a career woman or a political figure, the bible’s injunction is that you submit to your husband.
You may be earning more than he does, it doesn’t matter, what matters is, you must [...]
February 7th, 2008 | Posted in Family Values | No Comments
“What the lord has joined together let no man put asunder” most definitely is one of the phrases proclaimed by the priest during a marriage ceremony confirming the union of a man and a woman as husband and wife. But how often do we allow people, situations and policies affect this God given instruction?
December 30th, 2007 | Posted in Family Values, Marriage & Divorce | 1 Comment
“Honest is the best policy” as often quoted is definitely the motto to live and abide by in relationships. Why some people may justify the need to tell lies in certain situations, there is no justification to tell a lie. As we perfect holiness in the fear of God we should not consciously set [...]
December 17th, 2007 | Posted in Dating, Family Values, Personal Development | No Comments
Puberty defined in The Penguin Encyclopedia is ‘the period of change from childhood to adulthood characterized by the attainment of sexual maturity and full reproductive capacity’. It begins earlier in girls (age 11) than in boys (about age 13) and lasts between 3 – 5 years.
At this stage it is very crucial that parents educate [...]
December 10th, 2007 | Posted in Dating, Family Values, Marriage & Divorce, Parenting, Personal Development, Relationships, Sex & Intimacy | No Comments
God created man and said everything was good. His command to man was to replenish the earth and have dominion over all creation. Marriage was instituted by God when he created Eve out of Adam and brought her to him in the Garden of Eden.
Procreation and replenishment of the earth implies sex and intimacy. The [...]
December 5th, 2007 | Posted in Family Values, Marriage & Divorce, Parenting, Personal Development, Relationships, Sex & Intimacy | No Comments
Lighting a unity candle is sometimes incorporated in wedding ceremonies to symbolise two live coming together as one.Ephesians 5:31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. - King James VersionIn the early days, the love between the husband [...]
November 25th, 2007 | Posted in Family Values, Marriage & Divorce, Relationships | 2 Comments
One of the TV programs I take keen interest in watching is CSI – Crime Scene Investigation. Apart from the gruesomeness of the murders being investigated, it is a brilliant program. The perpetrators of the crimes always get caught by the mere intelligence of the investigations. My devotion to this TV series made me ponder [...]
November 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Family Values, Parenting, Personal Development | No Comments
For those who do not know Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945), he was one of history’s most brutal leaders. He converted Germany into a fully remilitarized society and launched World War II. He used tremendous forcefulness, charisma, oratory and his ability to appeal to people’s baser instinct to manipulate them. Apart from the oratory bit, [...]
November 21st, 2007 | Posted in Family Values, Marriage & Divorce, Relationships | 1 Comment