/ For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household. Treasury of Scripture He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves...
Hubby and I have been watchingHow I Met Your Motherfor the last 6 weeks or so. In the five months that he was living in Greenville and I was living in Gulf Shores, he had seen some episode reruns and suggested that we watch the whole series together. It is one of those things that...
Treasury of Scripture And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go you in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. Isaiah 3:9 The shew...
However, a remarkable confirmation of the Scripture narrative is afforded by the recent discovery of a bronze door-step, which bears an inscription to the effect that it was presented by Nebuchadnezzar to the great temple at Borsippa as a votive offering on account of his recovery from a ...
Mother’s Day is not easy. Some of you have lost your mothers. Some of you are anxiously awaiting a child. Some of the mothers here have lost children. And many women are not yet and may never be mothers. Some of you can’t for obvious reasons can’t be mothers. And for others,...
Fears of a mother losing her child. I experienced those kind of fears when my brother died, and I still don’t comprehend them. I fundamentally believe that “God hath not given us a spirit of fear,” but I also know from experience that fear is part of the journey. For me at this...
His mother had trained him well. Levi’s energy was boundless, his imagination wild, and his sense of humor always made us laugh, especially when he teased Pam about who he loved more, daddy or mommy. Then one day Levi became a big brother when our daughter Annabelle was born, and he...
Five years. I waited five years before being given the opportunity to celebrate Mother’s Day with a child of my own. My five years doesn’t sound so long when we think of women who may never see that day, or when we remember Sara in Genesis 21 who waited decades before witnessing th...
“I don’t think we should demonize the mother for the tragedy that she suffered. She is not evil, but misguided. She didn’t want this abortion, but she felt like she “had to.”” I hate what she did, and I do not see her as innocent. But I do see her as misguided and I...
” Now that’s faith. And it’s humility and a mother’s truest kind of love in that society when she could have stood on principle and stomped off and unleashed her family on him for assaulting their group reputation. This was a woman with two things—absolute belief that what s...