Is Seeing Believing?

By Beth | June 25, 2013 | Comments Off on Is Seeing Believing?

So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:6-7     Today’s headlines included the health and academics of Pennsylvania kids dropping, violence in Syria (nothing new), Snowden finding,…

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Mom, the Clothing Police

By Beth | June 20, 2013 | Comments Off on Mom, the Clothing Police

…likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness–with good works.  1 Timothy 2:9-10 This past Sunday my husband and I led a discussion after viewing a Paul Tripp…

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Busy at Home

By Beth | June 17, 2013 | Comments Off on Busy at Home

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may…

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Present Your Bodies

By Beth | June 13, 2013 |

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:28-29   Every once in a while I hear something that just sounds wrong.  I’m talking about “Christian” behaviors that make…

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To Vent or Not to Vent

By Beth | June 10, 2013 |

   A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back. Proverbs 29:11.   Women want to be heard. If the person who needs to hear our complaints won’t listen, we will tell someone else. I often wonder about the biblical basis of “venting.” If I were to vent…

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Stress Relief

By Beth | June 6, 2013 |

   Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works. Psalm 119:27 “Stressed? Empty your mind. Don’t think about anything.” I’ve had a couple of stressful weeks and I was recently reminded of these instructions from an article I once read about relieving stress. From a Biblical perspective…

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