Tips for the Home
Nine out of Ten
Understandably, many families must utilize the services of a day care center, but some Americans use such centers merely to increase their buying power by putting both parents in the workforce....
Parenting Tips
Ten Things for Which a Parent Will Never Be Sorry
For doing your level best even when discouraged.
For hearing before judging in family quarrels.
For thinking before speaking when emotionally upset.
For not...
All This for a “Dollar an Hour”
The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle-income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn’t even touch college tuition. But...
Helping Widows
Concern for the underprivileged and vulnerable has always mattered to God. Three such categories in every society in every generation are immigrants (strangers), orphans, and widows. This study pertains to the third group.
Under Old...
The Home Field Advantage
One of the kindest things God did for humans was to institute marriage.
Glad Tidings of Good Things (October 6, 2017)
Satan the House Robber
Gus Nichols preached this sermon on February 19, 1965.
Satan steals. He robbed the first home of God’s word (Genesis 2:17–18; 3:1–19; 2 Corinthians 11:1–3; 1 Timothy 2:11). He is in the...
5 Suggestions for a Better Life
When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, pass it along (Proverbs 3:27; Galatians 6:10). If it’s a negative word, keep it to yourself.
As a man, spoil your spouse, not...
Focusing on the Homefront
Against Violence
When I applied for Conscientious Objector draft status, a friend suggested that I ask a variety of individuals to write and explain their personal knowledge of my sincerity as a non-violent person. After...
Train Up a Child . . .
A Shakespeare Who Couldn't Read?
William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.
Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, every school student still studies his life and works.
However, when Shakespeare’s daughter, Judith,...