“The Cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate this world . . . . One of the reasons why the cross is offensive to people is that the Cross demands, it does not suggest, it demands a new lifestyle in all of us.” -Pastor Billy Graham
The Cross demands a new lifestyle in all of us!
So, if we are ambassadors of the message of the Cross, our messages, in words or actions, must demand change of life in us as well as in those who hear our messages; otherwise we are entertainers, ministers of this dark world. ///
Most nutritionists advise people not to go to grocery shopping while hungry. Do you know why? Well, if you are hungry, you buy everything regardless of the fat content and the calorie count of the food and end up destroying your health and excellent body figure.
As going out to grocery shopping while hungry is a dangerous business, so is looking for a spouse while you are desperately looking for someone to marry. Do you know why?
It was one of those normal late weekday afternoons. I was running around to bake something for snack. My daughter, who was at the time seven years old, was trying to help out her mama. She brought a step stool to stand next to me. My little one, who was five, was sitting down at the kitchen tea-table. He was a brand new kindergartner and I thought he didn’t have much to say about his new school.
Then from nowhere, he said, “Mom, what is this sex thing?”
Just imagine me. I looked as though someone splashed cold water on my face. I immediately turned around to him and opened my mouth but all those vocabularies which used to hang out in my mouth and everything I read from Dr. James Dobson’s books disappeared from my brain and heart in an instant. So, I opened my mouth and got frozen as if someone pressed a “pause button” of my life.
When a husband receives respect from his wife, he finds it very easy to love his wife. In the same way, when a wife receives unconditional love from her husband, respecting and honoring her husband becomes her second nature.
But, for this biblical love-respect principle to work in a marriage, somebody has to “prime the pump” first.
Who? A husband or a wife?
One of them who is spiritually more matured and the one who loves Christ more will do. ///
After Adam lost one of his “ribs”, he became aware of this strange desire he had never experienced before. God knew and prepared beforehand what Adam would want to have immediately after he woke up from his “deep sleep”.
Adam didn’t say something to God like, “I think something is happening to me. I have this strange desire.”
No, Adam didn’t say that. God already met Adam’s desire the moment Adam woke up. Talk about “care-free life,” this is unmatched and unparalleled! Adam didn’t have to go through puberty or anything. Boom! Problem solved right there when he opened his eyes! I’m very jealous of him! Anyways, let me not get off track here. Continue reading Desirable Because She was Found from Him→
If you live in North America, don’t forget to set your watch/clock one hour forward.
No, it is not exciting at all to lose one hour! But hey, there is nothing we can do about it except accepting the fact and trying to get used to it. But the good thing is, we will soon get it back.
So, I personally choose to fix my eyes on getting it all back soon, not on losing it now.
Whether we accept it as truth or not, “it is a law of life that we get what we go after.”
This truth is actually biblical. Knock, it shall be opened; seek, you shall find (Matthew 7).
So, the question is not whether or not the door will be opened and we find what we are seeking for, rather it is whether the door we are knocking on and the thing we are going after will lead us to life or not. ///
Divorce may loom on the horizon if the following four ways of dealing with conflicts mark your marriage:
Silent treatment – ignoring each other for days, months and even years
Exchanging disrespectful words – calling names
Gossiping about each other to others, especially to family members
Sleeping on a separate bed (bedrooms)
When conflict erupts in your marriage, sit around the table and discuss the issue like adults. If you can’t do that, invite someone else to come in between; and it would be great if that someone is not related to you or your spouse and that you both feel comfortable to talk to. ///
