Devotionals

May 22, 2010

Trip to Italy – Day #15 – Rome Day #3

Rome is magnificent and brutal, painfully historical and modern, wonderfully peacefully and maddeningly bustling, captivating and repulsing … at all at the same time. To us, […]

May 21, 2010

Trip to Italy – Days #13-14 – Rome Days #1-2 – The Wedding

Yesterday, Thursday, May 20, we trained to Rome and then checked into the Roman Residence (where we stayed earlier in the trip). Massimo, the owner, warmly […]

May 20, 2010

New research touts the benefits of marriage on health

Tara Parker-Pope, of the New York Times, recently did an excellent analysis on the topic of the effects of marriage on health. Parker-Pope reports, “Contemporary studies […]

May 20, 2010

Raw milk advocates and health officials step up dispute

In the past, I’ve blogged about the potential dangers (including a few fatalities) from consuming or giving your children raw (unpasteurized) milk. Recently USA Today carried […]

May 20, 2010

Unexpected Consequences of Twitter, Facebook, and the Self-Esteem Movement?

Here’s an interesting story that I’ve excerpted from an article, “Twitter and YouTube: Unexpected Consequences of the Self-Esteem Movement?” published in the Psychiatric Times. To Americans […]

May 19, 2010

Trip to Italy – Day #12 – Florence Day #4

Our final day in Florence started out cool and crisp before a drizzle interrupted, but did not stop, our few remaining explorations. After a breakfast of […]

May 18, 2010

Church health fairs help spot high blood pressure

Churches and parish nurse programs have proven to be essential to the physical, emotional, relational, and, of course, spiritual health of their congregants. Now, new research […]

May 18, 2021

The people of this age marry and are given in marriage

Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

May 18, 2021

The two will become one flesh

Since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

May 19, 2021

May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful, and increase your numbers

The LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth. … They are the children God has graciously given. … Sons are a heritage from the […]

May 19, 2021

He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him

Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death. … Do not withhold discipline from a child; […]

May 20, 2021

My word … will accomplish what I desire

The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.

May 20, 2021

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever

Every word of God is flawless. … It is written: “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the […]