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#45: Coming Out Of Hiding
There is a time to keep silence, and a time to speak. (Ecclesiastes 3:7)“Nothing’s wrong. It really doesn’t matter!” – these are classic lines from a person who hides feelings of hurt, irritation, and unmet needs, but who settles inside with pain or anger. Rather than “cause problems” or risk rejection, the “hider” seeks to…
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#44: Lifting Up Your Spouse As A Person Of Great Worth
He who humbles himself will be exalted. (Luke 14:11)It feels great to have someone – a friend, a family member – view you as a person of great worth. To have such a promise of exaltation from the Lord is tremendous. But to be valued as important by one’s spouse may be the highest exaltation…
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#43: Yielding to Others for Their Benefit
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Ephesians 5:21)Deferring to another means that my heart is yielded to the Holy Spirit’s work. It means that I am willing to give up my agenda, my preferences, and my schedules for the benefit of someone else. Deference means that my needs are not always my…
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#12: The Value Of Children
One of the characteristics that distinguished the Jews from other people of the Bible was the value they placed on children. They had learned well Yahweh’s absolute prohibition of child sacrifice (Deuteronomy 12: 31-32) and the importance he placed on teaching children to love and serve him (Deuteronomy 6: 7-9). Jesus responded in anger to…
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#42: Press On To The Mark
Poverty and shame will come to him who disdains correction, but he who regards a rebuke will be honored. (Proverbs 13:18)Think of some of the greatest inventions – the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane, for example. These things all have at least this one thing in common: It took hundreds of failed efforts before…
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#41: Love Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry?
I will declare my iniquity; I will be in anguish over my sin. (Psalms 38:18)The belief of the world outside is “love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Love – true love – means saying “I’m sorry” all the time. Why? Because, as fallen human beings, all of us mess up from time to…
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#40: The Music of Marriage
Song of Solomon 1:1-16 Once Pastor Adrian Rogers asked a marriage counsellor what percentage of marriage problems are rooted in communication. He said 100 percent. If you trace the problem back, it began somewhere with poor communication. You have a choice when you marry – either communicate or disintegrate. And this love poem we call…
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#11: Maximum Motherhood
I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord. (1 Samuel 1: 27) We want to introduce you to a wonderful woman. Her name is Hannah, and her name means “gracious.” But don’t get the…
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#39: The Look of Real Comfort
Comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:18)Comfort is an expression of the heart. It means responding to a hurting person with words, feelings, and touch. Comfort means hurting with another person. It means showing compassion for another’s pain or grief. A person who is hurting feels emotions such as sadness, disappointment and rejection.…
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#38: Lifting Up Your Spouse As A Person Of Great Worth
He who humbles himself will be exalted. (Luke 14:11)It feels great to have someone – a friend, a business associate, or a family member – view you as a person of great worth. To have such a promise of exaltation from the Lord is tremendous. But to be valued as important by one’s spouse may…
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