Honouring Your Wife
Men, take time each day to affirm and encourage your wife. Honouring her is a role that only a husband can fill.
Men, take time each day to affirm and encourage your wife. Honouring her is a role that only a husband can fill.
People don't always give marriage the time it needs to grow and mature. Instead, we give up on the pattern God instituted and look for quick fixes and easy outs. Paul reminds us that there is a better way.
If you’re jealous or overprotective of your spouse you risk smothering. True honouring is the opposite—honouring allows your spouse to be free to be his or her own person.
Many of us have the right motives, but we just don’t know how to reprove one another the way God intended. In this message, let’s seek to understand the value and process of speaking the truth in love so we might gain—and share, especially with our children—the helpful insight that can remove blind spots and bring about needed change.
In the final verses of the Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians, he provides four guidelines for finishing well.
Boot camp isn’t supposed to be easy, it’s meant to prepare people to defend their country against the enemy. It has the built-in ingredients to make you strong. There’s a sort of spiritual boot camp believers go through. It’s not easy, but God is using it ultimately for good.
Your child needs you to help know who he is. Parents, spend more time affirming and encouraging your child for what he does right than for disciplining and correcting for what he does wrong. Children get security from their parents to know who they are, to like who they are, and to be who they are.
No one’s upbringing was perfect, least of all Chuck Swindoll’s. His childhood reminiscing has some good lessons for parents.
No matter what kind of home you came from, it is not too late to start doing right in that all-important parent-child relationship.
Dads, what will your legacy be? It’s never too late to make positive changes. Your godly influence will impact your family for generations to come.