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The Eight-Pound Seminary ProfessorDo not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger ...

Spiritual impact is by no means directed solely by biology.On the contrary, many adoptive fathers and stepfathers have had far more impact on their children’s lives than the children’s biological ...

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up. — 1 Thessalonians 5:11In the classic 1904 novel Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter, a kindly couple gives a young man who is ...

To cherish is to heal.To ridicule your spouse or to be apathetic about your spouse is to further injure them. Contempt merely reinforces the negativity from earlier in your spouse’s ...

One of the best ways to cherish your spouse with words is by affirming the gospel — the essential message of Christianity — and regularly planting its truth in your ...

Deliberately choosing the way we speak is essential to a lifetime of cherishing our mates. The early church father John Chrysostom urged husbands (speaking about their wives), “Never call her ...

Crafting a Cherishing Mindset You can pay $25,000 for a watch that will never disappoint you. It will tell time with mathematical precision. If you look at it fifteen times ...

God, may Your fullness flood through their entire beings. — Ephesians 3:19b The VoiceWhat would change if God’s fullness flooded through our entire being? If that were to happen, we ...

As a young man, I always thought silence was the preferred pathway to the heart of God. The church I attended put a comment in the weekly bulletin that went ...

I became a Christian at a very young age. In truth, I can scarcely remember a moment when God was not an active and conscious presence in my life. Because ...