NUGGETS
100 Questions to Fuel Mentoring Relationships – “If an older woman is to teach a younger woman, she must feel equipped for the task. If a younger woman is to learn from an older woman, she must know what to
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3 Disastrous Dating Mistakes: Learning from Samson’s Bad Example
One way of learning how to do something is by watching someone else do it poorly. When I swam in triathlons, I had a friend who worked out in the same pool. In his freestyle stroke, he had a habit
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Do You Regret Your Dating History? – “Does your regret about your dating history lead you to God and away from sin? We will never attain perfection in this life, but forgiven children of God are men and women who
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Marriage: God’s Good Idea? – Many who think about marriage and family wonder if the idea came from the jungle story, “Me Tarzan, you Jane; come with me to live in my tree house.” Are Homeschool Families More Likely to
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Here are more nuggets of gold, which provide sound counsel and challenge our thinking on singleness and relationships. If He’s Not My Picture-Perfect Guy, Should We Still Marry? – Here are wise words from Scott Croft to a young woman
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What Do You Think of eHarmony? – Tim Challies gives practical wisdom in this digital age. If you have not read Tim’s book The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion, I recommend you do so. I blogged
Continue readingDADs 2:7 – Another Ring for Another Daughter
“Children are a gift from the Lord…how blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them” (Ps 127:3, 5). God has richly blessed my wife and me with six daughters and four sons. This past weekend was another daughter’s
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Don’t Date a Fool
Single Christians often ask, “What character qualities should I look for in a future spouse?” To which we reply, “Search the Scriptures and see what God commends.” But there is another equally important question to ask: “Is He or She
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Your young adult son needs to listen to Sex & the Single Man, by Mark Dever from the 2004 Desiring God Conference. Listen to the download first—yourself—in order to decide which of your sons are mature enough for its teaching.
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There are many helpful books on the subject of dating and/or courtship. However, there is a mini-book from Shepherd Press that is worthy of your attention. It is brief, faithful in its application of biblical truth and examples, and is
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