Becky Harling
Though many of us grew up hearing about God’s love for us and singing songs about God’s love for us, living in the joy and security of that deep love can be a challenge. In part, this has been because the love of God is extraordinary in every way. It is incomparable in nature and unfathomable in depth.
What Does Scripture Teach about God’s Love for Us?
From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible speaks of God’s love for us. The book of Psalms alone has many verses describing God’s love for us. The Psalmist David described God’s love with these poetic words, “Your...
Dr. David B. Hawkins
Touch is important from the beginning of our lives, and the touch between mother and infant has been shown to impact and enhance the attachment between mother and child. Touch is the first of the senses to develop in the infant and the connection between mother and child is fostered by touch.
Touch is critically important to our emotional development. A mother’s touch has been found to even mitigate pain with infants. Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute has linked touch, in the form of massage, to many benefits including better sleep, reduced irritability and...
Linda Gilden
1. Pray
There are so many elements involved in relationships that there is usually more than one area that needs work when communication is broken. And, the One who can help break through the lines of hurt and miscommunication is God. So the very first thing we need to do is ask Him to help us restore the family relationship. Tell Him what is in your heart and how you feel about what has happened. Sure He already knows, but vocalizing that hurt and your desire for restoration of the relationship will open the door for you to listen...
R.C. Sproul
(John 3:16) is one of the most famous verses in the Bible. It’s also one of the most distorted passages in Scripture. Today, R.C. Sproul explains what this verse actually teaches about the depths of God’s love in salvation.
Transcript:
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son and whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
This surely is the most famous verse in the New Testament. It's the one that people color their hair all different kinds of shades and hold up and signs at sporting events, (John 3:16). It's probably...
Lane Jordan Burday
1. Touch Them.
Yep, another simple tip. But wait. When was the last time you touched him/her? And I’m not talking about what goes on between the sheets but when was the last time you touched just to touch? I will tell you that one touch will go a very long way in keeping you connected. How? Because we need to be loved and touched by other people.
Just because you may have sex sometime today or this week isn’t the issue. It’s reaching out when he gets home from work and giving a hug and a kiss. It’s...
Here are a few helpful tips and resources for studying the Bible together as a family.
by Tim Pollard
1. Start early.
You can begin studying the Bible together as a family the moment your child is born.
Will she understand? No. But she will grow in understanding as you spend this special time together. Your kids spend more time with you than anyone else. You get to see who your kids really are—not the ones that show up when you're in public and make you wonder, Who is that kid and where did she come from?
When your kids grow and get older, they will...
Kile Baker
In ancient times, God’s Spirit had the same mission as He does today — to draw people to God, to help them live holy, righteous lives, and to convict them of sin, among other things. But the method in which the Spirit accomplished these things was different compared to now.
In the Old Testament, he empowered heroes like Moses, Samson, Gideon, Joshua, Saul, and Micah to prophesy, judge, lead, rule over, and perform acts of justice on God’s behalf. The Spirit of God enabled God’s communication by verbal and written means through Moses, David, Ezekiel, and other Old Testament authors so people could...
Don’t believe everything you read. Everybody knows that.
So why trust the Bible? What can be known about its historical reliability?
Even more than other religions, Christianity presents itself as history. At its heart, Christianity claims that something extraordinary happened in the course of time—something concrete, real, and historical.
In the Bible, the New Testament declares that a man named Jesus was born to a virgin, claimed to be God, did miracles like walking on water and raising people from the dead, was crucified on a Roman cross, then rose from the dead and ascended into heaven to reign as King of...
Trinity, in Christian doctrine, the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. The doctrine of the Trinity is considered to be one of the central Christian affirmations about God. It is rooted in the fact that God came to meet Christians in a threefold figure: (1) as Creator, Lord of the history of salvation, Father, and Judge, as revealed in the Old Testament; (2) as the Lord who, in the incarnated figure of Jesus Christ, lived among human beings and was present in their midst as the “Resurrected One”; and (3) as the...
· Elizabeth Spencer
1. Don't hurry them past what they feel.
As parents, we yearn to heal what is sick, mend what is broken, and right what is wrong. When our children are hurting, we want to ease their pain immediately, if not sooner. But there are times we must let our children walk through—not around—what Ecclesiastes 3:4 calls "a time to weep" and "a time to mourn."
Be patient with your child while they process the new reality they're facing without their friend. Resist the urge to brush off their sadness by telling them they have other friends; friendship is not like a...
