1: Christian tatoos (Sunday, September 16, 2007)
If you mention to a devout Christian that you would like to get a cross tattoo, then you may be told that according to the book of Leviticus: “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.” However, there are some Biblical scholars who believe that this passage is actually referring to a practice that pagans held at that time wherein they would carve images of their idols on their bodies at funerals. |
2: Christian Clothing (Sunday, September 16, 2007)
As Christians we are part of the plan that Jesus gave to His followers in Matthew 28. This plan is known as the “Great Commission.” Herein Jesus told His disciples to go out and make disciples of the whole world. Of course, He gives us help and strength but He is depending upon us to reach the entire world with His message. |
3: Using christian dating sites (Sunday, September 16, 2007)
If you have decided to use an online Christian dating site you are in good company. However, you may be wondering how you can know for sure whether or not the Christian dating site that you are about to spend your money on is any good. Well, there are hundreds of online Christian dating sites that are located throughout the Internet. |
4: A true experience towards healing (Sunday, September 16, 2007)
Many a times, we are so use to hearing teachings or seeing things on television or even in our prayer services where we see beautiful testimonies of healing and miracles and they happen instantly. We all want those instant miracles. As you have instant tea, instant coffee, instant noodles, everything has become instant and fast food. |
5: The true way of living (Sunday, September 16, 2007)
Ezekiel chapter 18 : “Repent, turn away from your ways and you will live.”
The word live, in the Bible does not mean just “existing” Human beings mostly forget what is their vocation, what is their call and the purpose that God has placed us on this earth and so often we live our lives as animals where we are just existing but we are not living. |
6: How to deal with the cross (Sunday, September 16, 2007)
Everybody loves Jesus. We love to praise Him. We cry to Him, we put our petitions before Him. We say that we truly love Him but when it comes to His cross, we want the benefits of the cross but we don’t want the cross. |
7: The process of receiving healing for God (Sunday, September 16, 2007)
According to the bible, healing is not just a cure. It is much beyond than just physical cure. If you got a headache or pain in your body, you normally visit a doctor and take medicine. But when we come to our Lord Jesus Christ, we receive physical as well as spiritual healing too. |
8: Man Cries God Smiles (Wednesday, September 05, 2007)
We are born crying. Life begins with a cry. And we keep crying throughout our lives. Do you see God smiling down at you when you snivel? He looks at you, observes you intently and smiles indeed. |
9: What Your Teens Need to Know about Sex (Friday, August 31, 2007)
One of the most challenging aspects of parent child relationships, particularly when the child in question has reached a certain age of maturity, is the issue of sex. If you have ever attempted to initiate such a conversation with your child in the past, then you are probably already well acquainted with the eye rolling, the groans of disapproval and the various other signs of your teenager’s reluctance to discuss such matters with you. |
10: Youth and the Internet (Friday, August 31, 2007)
Like it or not, the Internet has in recent years become one of the most influential aspects of your child’s life. Used in everything from school work to keeping in touch with old friends and meeting new ones, this technological innovation has the power--and the potential--to affect our children’s lives in numerous ways that we have never even dreamed previously possible. |
11: Pornography And Your Child (Friday, August 31, 2007)
It is often easy enough to dismiss any instances of pornography use by our children as nothing more than passing phase that will soon be abandoned much as any other relic from the past has been discarded. While this is certainly true for the vast majority of cases, we must as responsible Christian parents also take steps to ensure that this event is not a sign of a much bigger concern that will require our utmost care and attention.
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12: Gambling and Your Kids (Friday, August 31, 2007)
Issues such as drug abuse, teenage sex--and its later potential consequence pregnancy, gang related violence…all of these are some very serious teenage related concerns that seem to have garnered the lion’s share of media attention in recent years. While there is certainly no disputing the severity of these issues and the far-reaching effects that they have on the youth of our nation, there is one other issue that has not received nearly the share of attention that it deserves. |
13: When Your Spouse is Unemployed (Friday, August 31, 2007)
One of the hardest things that any married couple will have to go through is the prospect of one or the other losing their job. This is difficult enough a challenge to contend with when both partners are working but the difficulty is magnified when the person who loses their job is the one person who is solely tasked with earning a living for the whole family. |
14: When Your Partner Changes (Friday, August 31, 2007)
Everyone knows that the start of the relationship is typically when you will see your partner at his or her very best behavior. This is the time after all when either one or the other is still making up their mind as to the suitability of their respective partners for whatever life they may have chosen for themselves and each other. |
15: Relational Needs (Friday, August 31, 2007)
Speaking primarily within the boundaries of a marriage, it has traditionally been expected that a husband should love his wife and a wife should in return respect her husband. The Bible itself says as much in Ephesians 5:33. |
16: Feelings of Doubt and Uncertainty (Friday, August 31, 2007)
Getting married is truly one of the most potentially life changing events that a person can ever go through. |
17: The Connection Between a Father and a Son (Friday, August 31, 2007)
One of the most trying periods in the long years of relationship between a father and a son has to be the period beginning when the child takes those first tentative steps into adulthood by finally entering adolescence. It is a time of great many changes--both physical and mental--that will have a long-term effect on the eventual outcome of your child. |
18: Helping Your Teen Learn Selfless Living (Friday, August 31, 2007)
For all the wonderful and endearing traits that teenagers can display on occasion, they can be prone to acts of surprisingly inconsiderate behavior or even outright selfishness. This is to be expected to some degree and really should be no cause for alarm. |
19: Father-Daughter Connection (Friday, August 31, 2007)
It may not be apparent at first, but fathers actually have more of an impact upon their daughter’s lives than they may have realized. It is easy enough for a father to be wholly absorbed in his relationship with his son at the neglect of his relationship with his own daughter. |
20: Teachable Moments With Your Child (Friday, August 31, 2007)
A parent’s life is often times equal measures of pleasure and difficulty and one is more often than not bound to come quickly upon the heels of the other in blinding succession. There really is no separating the two and frankly speaking you would not really want to, would you? For both challenges and rewards are just two of the things that make this lifelong endeavor—parenting—the rewarding, self affirming and life changing event that it is. |
21: Raising Godly Children (Friday, August 31, 2007)
It is a much changed world from what was even only one or 2 decades ago and many times it does not seem like such an ideal place in which to raise our children. |
22: Faith and your child (Friday, August 31, 2007)
As an adult Christian, it is hard enough that you go through occasional periods in your life wherein your faith is called into question. This is a normal part of the life of every follower of Christ and we all go through such periods of trial at one time or another. |
23: Talking to Kids About Media (Friday, August 31, 2007)
As Christian parents who are doing our very best to raise our children according to the teachings of the Bible, we have often found ourselves playing second fiddle to an insidious and unwelcome influence in our very own homes that oftentimes we may not even be aware of. |
24: Media's Influence in Your Home (Friday, August 31, 2007)
There is no denying the effects that the constant input of media into your own home have on your family’s life and subsequently, your children’s development. Indeed, in the face of this media onslaught coming at you and your family from all directions by way of TV, cinema and the Internet, it would seem that there is very little that you can do to counteract its more damaging effects. |
25: How To Balance TV’s Influence In Your Home (Friday, August 31, 2007)
Ever since its inception in the late 1920s, television, which at first had slowly but steadily managed to entrench itself into virtually every home, has become an undeniable feature of the modern day family landscape. Its influence is vast and far-reaching and indeed we may not even have a clear and thorough understanding of just how extensive its effects are when it comes to our children’s spiritual welfare. |
26: Understanding the grieving process (Friday, August 31, 2007)
The very nature of human existence as a finite span of time ensures that at some point or another we will all have to deal with the loss of someone who is close to our hearts. This can be a challenging and spiritually troubling time indeed and in these dark moments we may begin to wonder at the purpose of it all. In some cases even our faith may be called into question. |
27: Managing Stress (Friday, August 31, 2007)
Stress. We all deal with it in some form or another, countless times throughout our lives. Sometimes we are barely even aware that it is there and sometimes its effects upon our present temperament can be undeniable. |
28: How To Help Your Spouse During Depression (Friday, August 31, 2007)
One of the hardest things that a person will have to deal with during the course of his or her adult life would have to be depression. The reasons why people fall prey to this condition can vary widely and oftentimes the real root cause may not be readily apparent. |
29: Social networking sites – your opportunity (Thursday, August 30, 2007)
Do you have your profile in several social networking sites? Do you keep on adding friends from world over? Do you join communities of your interest like music, literature, travel or any other hobby and interact actively? Do you run a long list of what you like and what you don’t like on your profile? Every person is born with deep desire to express his or her uniqueness. |
30: How to overcome anxiety? (Tuesday, August 28, 2007)
When you get tensed or anxious, you must then pray. We often act reversely. We tell God “Jesus immediately take this problem that I am facing at this moment”. You should actually say, “Jesus, I am facing this particular problem and I am surrendering it to you right now” |
31: The effects of anxiety (Tuesday, August 28, 2007)
Psalms 37, verse 3 to 6
“Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and feed on his faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the noon day”. |
32: What happens after you have just surrendered your worries to God (Tuesday, August 28, 2007)
Below is a classic example of what exactly happens when you have just surrendered your problems to God. |
33: How to identify our worries (Tuesday, August 28, 2007)
The most important step towards dealing with our worries is to identify what are we worried about. |
34: Dealing with anxiety (Tuesday, August 28, 2007)
According to the dictionary, “anxiety” is a state of being troubled and uneasy. According to the Bible anxiety is a Choke. |
35: Raising Children to have Faith and Love in God (Tuesday, August 21, 2007)
Many parents focus on the physical, mental and emotional developments, but fail to focus on the spiritual well-being of their children. It is the responsibility of parents to set a strong foundation for the spiritual life of their children. Setting a good foundation for the spiritual life of children helps in making them well-rounded individuals. |
36: Being a leader (Saturday, August 18, 2007)
Leadership is a very great responsibility. You cannot achieve leadership qualities, just by reading books or attending lectures. Rather, it’s about various factors that one needs to tackle in any given situation. |
37: Be safe than hurt (Saturday, August 18, 2007)
Meeting the needs of your family, your own needs and above all, being a parent, takes a lot of true effort. However it does not take a 24 hour effort to ensure your child’s safety and that the child is free from injury. You must focus your attention on details that can keep them safe at home as well as outdoors. |
38: A bad marriage that affects your child (Saturday, August 18, 2007)
Bad marriages do affect the lives of children. Constant fights between husband and
wives, in front of the child will certainly bring an adverse effect in the behavior
of the child. |
