“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews 4:15) This is a passage which clearly defines Christ’s capacity to experience emotions and to identify with my (and all people’s — even wives’) emotions. The implications of this […]
Relationship Help | The Effects of Peer Pressures in Today’s Society
March 23, 2011
Helping to Change the Pattern by Nancy Nair When you are willing to do whatever it takes to get a boyfriend, are you thinking about how this can totally change your life forever? Have you already experienced this and feeling the effects of those decisions? Starting in grade school, girls want to date at a very young age. They find […]
Daily Devotional | Verse of the Month Genesis 2:18
March 23, 2011
Genesis 2:18: The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” This passage talks about God creating man’s complement, a woman. By the very name God gave her, He expressed the purpose for woman’s creation. God’s perspective was for her to complete him; she was to be the completion […]
Marriage | What Marriage Problems are Common
March 21, 2011
The following is a letter we received from a Christian wife and doctor who is longing to find Christ-likeness in her marriage. Dear Life Partners Friends, I wanted to write you and thank you for writing your book, Discovering the Mind of a Woman. It was recommended to me by a young man from Hungary at our church retreat. I […]
Relationship Help | How to Cope with the Death of a Child
March 18, 2011
…all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 “A men’s retreat I attended focused on the second part of that verse — the part about being called according to His purpose. The first part of the verse — that all things work together for good, […]
Daily Devotional | Benefits of Knowing Your Spiritual Motivational Gifts
March 11, 2011
I (Nancy Nair) am reading Romans 12:6-8. Wow — if we could do this, our world would be so different! We all have different motivational gifts, according to God’s grace. If a person’s gift is prophesying, let him/her use it in proportion to his/her faith. (7) If it is serving, let him/her serve; if it is teaching, let him/her teach; (8) […]
Daily Devotional | 1 Kings 8:61 Keeping His Commandments Devotion
March 1, 2011
The Lord requires us to keep His commandments, His statutes and His ordinances, which He also commanded our fathers to keep. 1 Kings 8:61 says, “Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.” Again, in I Kings 9:4-5a the Lord says, “If you […]