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Marriage and Family

Family is the structure of civilization, and healthy family relationships give us security, stability, and happiness. Many of us do not have this experience in our pasts, but it is never too late to build up your family moving forward. Ask for God's blessing in your family and use these resources to work toward a peaceful, happy family.

  • by Tim Waddle
Is your father "Superman"? Remembering your Father and how you and he can strengthen that relationship.
  • by Doug Horchak
A physical father is a type of our spiritual Father. How can we come to understand our spiritual Father better?
  • by Cecil Maranville
Debate rages over a government study that suggests day care causes aggressive behavior in children. Cries for using less day care are challenged with equal passion by defenders of its perceived value. Sadly, personal opinion and economics have obscured the most important value of all.
  • by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, John Ross Schroeder
"America's Greatest Problem: Not Crime, Racism or Bad Schools-It's Illegitimacy" is a chapter title in a bold book offered by Larry Elder, titled The Ten Things You Can't Say in America.
  • by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes
"... HIV infections are disturbingly common among gay men of all races in their 20s, especially considering that they grew up knowing how AIDS spreads," says an Associated Press report on the recent eighth annual Retrovirus Conference in Chicago.
  • by W. Fred Crow
That hat meant a lot to me, but what was I saying to the kid who crushed it?
  • by Jay Turner
It's so easy to slide on the slippery slope of borrowing and credit card debt without really realizing it. When we wake up to a debt disaster, what can we do to take control of our finances?
  • by Melvin Rhodes
A titillating television show pushes the bounds of accepted morality even further while presenting only the seamy-and steamy-side of the story.
  • by Howard Davis
Violence has come to roost in the nation's youth. A biblical prophet envisioned a time when children would be our oppressors (Isaiah 3:12). Are we living in those days?
  • by Cecil Maranville
Addressing the weighty moral objections to cloning, Dr. Severino Antoniori of Rome declared that humans will be cloned in the very near future, "whether we like it or not."
  • by Melvin Rhodes
The AIDS epidemic, increasingly compared to the dreaded black death of the 1300s, has taken millions of lives and promises to take millions more. Yet, tragically, we ignore the only real solution to this deadly plague.
  • by Robin Webber
Headlines about national and international issues are a daily fare, but every day, somewhere, events are occurring that affect some family for a lifetime. These events, whether for good or bad, take up the "headline space" in their family's personal front page of life's happenings. For the moment, such personal activity pushes aside bigger news like elections or wars in far-off nations.
  • by Joanne Rutis
We can joke about favorite children, but it is not a joke to those who are not favorites. Understand how every person is special with God.