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.

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Encouragement A Powerful Parenting Tool

This issue we focus on a foundational parenting principle—a priceless gift we can give our children that pays great dividends.

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Treasure Digest: Turning the Hearts: It Takes Two

Jesus Christ replied to the questioning Pharisees, "Have you not read... For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh? So then, they are no...

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Specific Positive Statements

Here are specific positive statements that you can incorporate in dealing with your children.

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Ways We Can Give Encouragement to Our Children

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Another "Push from the King of the South"

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Does your Church have a stance on older women marrying younger men, specifically a man in his late twenties and a woman more than 20 years his senior?

We can't find anything in the Bible that states specifically that it's wrong, but we need more clarification. Can you give me some guidance?

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Treasure Digest: Turning the Hearts Children Are People Too!

Children are blessings from God (Psalm 127:3).

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What Will Tomorrow's Mothers Be Like?

As you look at the girl "tweens" (8- to 14-year-olds) of today, what kind of mothers do you think they will make for tomorrow? What type of young woman is our Western culture producing? Girls have a clear choice between...

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Treasure Digest: Turning the Hearts...Reducing the Risk in Selecting a Mate, Part 2

How may we take some of the risk out of mate selection? Last time we looked at three important points: Take plenty of time to make a decision. Pray for God's guidance and wisdom. Seek wise counsel.

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Treasure Digest: Do You Know What Your Kids Are Really Thinking?

The Oct. 1, 2004, issue of Family Circle magazine reported on a survey showing that some parents aren't always in touch with what their kids are thinking. For example:

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God Gave Us a Miracle!

"A year ago we had a true miracle in our congregation. A baby was born perfectly healthy even though the doctors could find no kidney function or lung function in the weeks leading up to the birth. All the doctors...

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Heading Off the Four Major Steps to Divorce

Marriage is in a sad state in the Western world.

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In Brief... World News Review: "Holy" Land Far From Holy

The nation of Israel is often called the Holy Land, but that isn't an apt description of its inhabitants' present lifestyle.

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Heading Off the Four Major Steps to Divorce

Marriage is in a sad state in the Western world. Divorce rates skyrocketed from barely 2 percent of marriages in 1900 to nearly 50 percent by the year 1990. In more recent years these rates have leveled off, not because...

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Treasure Digest: About My Father's Business

When somebody asks where I'm off to in such a hurry, the answer is: "I must be about my Father's business!"

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Where Have All the Good Manners Gone?

What’s behind the growing epidemic of selfish, crude behavior, and what can you do to counteract it in your children?

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Does God Believe in Tough Love?

Both Dr. Phil and Dr. Laura advocate it. There’s even an organization—Tough Love International—to help parents deal with out-of-control children. A practicing family psychiatrist has written a book calling for parents to use tough love. But the concept of tough...

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Treasure Digest: Turning the Hearts...New Column on Marriage and Family Life Begins

We begin a new feature in this issue titled, "Turning the Hearts."

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Britain's Declining Respect for Biblical Values

Traditional values, like basic respect for the rights and dignity of others, are fast disappearing from a society steadily undermined by secularism and growing ignorance of the Bible. How do we rebuild a culture of respect?

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Supreme Court Allows Internet Porn to Continue

Tuesday, June 29th the Supreme Court struck down a ban on Internet porn designed to protect children from exposure to lewd and obscene sexual matter on the Internet. This decision of the high court allows the continued exposure of children...

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