Month: August 2025

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”EPHESIANS 4:31-32 PONDER THISIt can be hard for us to hear the problems of our children. You may think the problems kids have…

“Simon Peter answered and said, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on…

Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.”TITUS 3:1-2 PONDER THISWhy do some children adore and worship their dads, and others hate their dads? What is the difference? There’s one…

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”PROVERBS 22:6 PONDER THISKing David sinned terribly, but when God convicted him, he repented and cried out to God for mercy. On the other hand, Pharaoh was a fool. When God judged Pharaoh, Pharaoh hardened his…

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”1 JOHN 4:16 PONDER THISWe need to give our kids unconditional love. I’ve often noticed that men who had fathers who did not love them do not know…

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”GALATIANS 5:22-25 PONDER THISWe all mess up. Nobody…

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, to such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them.”PSALM 103:17-18 PONDER THISWe have much to learn about how to make a home beautiful. We must be intentional…

“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man…

Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying,…

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”3 JOHN 1:4 PONDER THISWhat is your purpose for your children? Why did you have children? Some people say, “I want someone to love, and I want someone to love me.” That’s fine. But what is the burning ambition you have for your…