NOWADAYS fathers are present at the births of their children. The wonder and pain, the cry of life and the blood of birth are thus in some measure shared by both parents.
The helpless, naked miracle of a first newborn child surpasses any other experience within marriage. A sense of unworthiness s…
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When Israel left the land of Egypt, the whole family came out. They crossed the Red Sea and they were all sustained by God in the wilderness. What will happen to families when Jesus comes back?
Responsible members will be taken to the judgement seat of Christ. What about the others? We can be sur…
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HAVE you ever been questioned by someone engaged in collecting information by Gallup poll or some similar fact-finding agency? If you have, you were probably forced to say ‘Don’t know’ in response to some question or other. ‘Don’t know’ means either, ‘I haven’t sufficient information…
THE Scripture tells us plainly that “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus”.
(Galatians 3:28)
This cannot mean that there are no such things as Jews and Gentiles, slaves and freemen, men and wome…
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THERE is no more precious moment than, when returning from the honeymoon, we enter our home or flat or rooms, and close the door with our two selves on the inside, not having to go our separate ways again. Around us are the things we have accumulated and those given to us as wedding presents. The ta…
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A WORLD in recession has made us starkly aware that ‘money does not grow on trees’. The ‘never-had-it-so good’ syndrome was a delusion, anyway, but whatever it was it has rapidly disappeared from the western world. It is time to take stock and get our thinking straight.
Some of us have be…
HOW strange that sweet love should bring so much heartache. Almost everyone has known it from the earliest days in the upper forms at school when previously unexperienced feelings sweep us off our feet: sometimes, alas, not to be requited and leaving us desolate. Later, when at college or our first …
CASUAL friendships are different from ‘going steady’, as Americans say. Our first meeting may be the result of being unexpectedly brought together at a gathering or at someone’s wedding. A spark is kindled. Perhaps it is the response to a look or to the way in which the other person speaks or …
NO bride, however much in love, would think of running down the aisle at the wedding ceremony. No maiden, however much in love, should think of becoming engaged too hastily. Engagement is not a means of ‘securing’ a companion who might otherwise get away. When we become engaged we have given a p…
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SOME years ago as a passenger in a car in the United States, I heard a voice say: “Saint Christopher speaking: You’re on your own now!” St Christopher, the supposed Roman Catholic saint for travellers, had been built into a device that told the driver when he was exceeding the speed limit. It …
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