Marriage, Home & Family
Jacy’s “50 Promises”
The following “Jacy’s 50 Promises” is my revision of the “50 Promises” circulated everywhere including on cards at Hymans Seafood in Charleston, which by its presence there while waiting for dinner, reminded me that I should “recreate” or “add” to it a bit. For those that are familiar, you know I would have made it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“Lovely Fruitful Women”
HEAVENLY NOTES
Author: jacyjoypals
Legacy Study: “Lovely Fruitful Women”
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, [...]
“Friendly Friends” & Cultivating Friendship
Heavenly Notes
“Friendly Friends”
JacyJoyPals
Friendship ought to be mutual and reciprocal…
Teaching our children about friendship is an extremely important part of our training our children in righteousness, proper manners/decorum, giving, sharing, love and respect. We train them to love and obey God and their parents, to love their siblings, friends and neighbors. We teach them to love [...]
Communicating with Your Children
“If you are a parent with children away from you for some reason or other — write, write, WRITE! “Home” is made up of communication and growing relationships. If you haven’t the daily possibility of preparing artistic and delicious meals for your children, if you haven’t your children there to awaken you in the night [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Children in Church: “Wanted: Super Nannies Needed at Church”
HEAVENLY NOTES
Title: “Wanted: Super Nannies Needed at Church”
Author: Jacy JoyPals, JoyPals.com-ReformedWomen, Editor-Publisher
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke [...]
The Christian Family
The Christian Family
“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15c
The Family is the oldest and most basic of human institutions. In both the Israelite culture of the Old Testament and the Hellenistic culture of the New Testament, the household might consist of parents and children, relatives from several generations, servants, [...]
Loving Leadership Bears Repeating
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Our Earthly Family
A family — parents and grandparents and children, the larger combination of three or four generations, or one little two-generation family — is meant to be a picture of what God is to His Family. “Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“The Family of God”
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.” Eph 3:14-15 “
The family before us consists of all real Christians–all who have the Holy Spirit living within them–all true believers in Christ–all the saints of every age, and Church, and nation, and language. [...]
Harvest and the Blessing of Peace
The Blessing of Peace
Scripture declares that “peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness” (James 3:18). Do you want to produce a harvest of righteousness in your family? James says that you should not expect this to occur in a home marked by fighting and quarrelling. It will happen in families where peacemakers [...]
Women in the Church…What are you thinking???
This has been a hot topic on the boards everywhere lately… The Lord help us….women, please, by the sake of our families, church and the Lord, please remember God’s design for women and men in all of its fullness and blessings.
From GreenBaggins…read on
“If there is any more pressing issue in the conservative church today, I [...]
Theology Girls Blog and Ministry Group
Theology Girls, six of them in women’s ministry (yes, I am one of those six gals), have finally gotten it together and put up a new blog and group as a tool of teaching good doctrine in a way that blesses women of all walks of life and faith. Now we do not want you to run screaming and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sarah Palin on Special Needs Children…
Understanding blessings, growing in grace, showing mercy and putting it to work … here it is in action:
“We were so blessed in April, Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. You know, from the inside, no family ever seems typical, and that’s how it is with [...]
Sarah Palin – Biography of An Accomplished Woman
Sarah Palin and what you did not see at the GOP Convention last night — the biography of an accomplished woman of substance.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Home, Heart and Openness of Hand
“The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.” Proverbs 31:11,12
“It is in her own home—that this warmth of heart and this openness of hand are first to be shown. It is as wife and [...]
“A Sweet, Beautiful Home”
Home is the true wife’s kingdom.
Very largely does the wife hold in her
hands, as a sacred trust, the happiness
and the highest good of the hearts that
nestle there. In the last analysis, home
happiness depends on the wife.
Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere.
Her hands fashion its beauty.
Her heart makes its love.
And the end is so [...]
“Happy Forevermore”
They are happy forevermore who are over head and ears in the love of Christ, and know no sickness but love-sickness for Christ, and feel no pain but the pain of an absent and hidden Well-beloved.** We run our souls out of breath and tire them, in chasing and galloping after our night-dreams (such are [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Directives for Avoiding Dissension in the Home
Directives for Avoiding Dissension in the Home
by Rev. Richard Baxter
It is a great duty of husbands and wives to live in quietness and peace, and avoid all occasions of wrath and discord. Because this is a duty of so great importance, I shall first open to you the great necessity of it, and then [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“Making A Museum of Memories”
Title: “Making A Museum of Memories”
Author: JoyPals.com-ReformedWomen, Editor-Publisher
We are always talking about “making memories” with our children and families. We create photos, albums, videos, scrapbooks and keep all kinds of things as reminders or memories of special times with loved ones and friends. I love memories, especially good ones and they can be excellent in [...]
True Christian Love
Love is the Queen of the Christian graces. It is a holy disposition given to us when we are born again by God. It is the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. True spiritual love is characterized by meekness and gentleness, yet it is vastly superior to the courtesies [...]
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