Category: Between the Lines – Blogs
GOD: Learning from the Perfect Parent
(from Debbie Kea’s Strategies for Raising Spiritually Healthy Children) It has been seven years since I retired from teaching high school English. My doctor told me after a yearthat my blood pressure was normal, and I could get off my medication! That gives you an idea about thestress I was under as I attempted to…
New posts
I have been adding to the Contentment study series, but for some reason, they are not being sent to you when I post them. Please check out the Contentment Study series. Also, the article I posted earlier called “Majoring in Majors” was not written by me, but by Debbie Kea, it is an excerpt from…
Looking for Contentment…Day 5: Where does Joy come from?
Daily Bible study excerpts from my book: “Looking for Contentment in All the Wrong Places” Friends Proverbs 27:9-10 What gives delight? Hi-Lite What is a good friend like? What is the command in verse 10? The word forsake means to leave for good. I think this applies to our Christian family, they would be our…
MAJORING IN THE MAJORS
(excerpt from Strategies for Raising Spiritually Healthy Children by Debbie Kea) Does your family have a motto? I have a friend who is not a Christian, but she is a serious parent, and if you ask her what her family’s motto is, she would say, “You can’t be mean or ignorant.” Being a good student…
Looking for Contentment…Day 4: Where does Joy come from?
Daily Bible study excerpts from my book: “Looking for Contentment in All the Wrong Places” Finding Joy in Family Relationships – Children Genesis 33:5 Psalm 127:3-5 Circle the key word “Children” in verses 3 and 4 Hi-lite Solomon’s description of children. How do children make a parent feel? Put a box around “happy” in verse…
Looking for Contentment…Day 3: Where does Joy come from?
Daily Bible study excerpts from my book: “Looking for Contentment in All the Wrong Places” Relationships A relationship with God can give us true joy. But there are other relationships that can give us joy as well. Family Relationships – Marriage Ephesians 5:25-33 What is expected of the wife? Hi-lite the duties of a wife:…
Looking for Contentment…Day 2: Where does Joy come from?
Daily Bible study excerpts from my book: “Looking for Contentment in All the Wrong Places” Knowing where true joy comes from will help us see it in our daily lives and learn to cultivate it. “The Bible is not about man seeking God (for man is trying to hide from God), but is about God…
Looking for Contentment…Day 1: The Difference between Joy and Happiness
Daily Bible study excerpts from my book: “Looking for Contentment in All the Wrong Places” Think about the difference between joy and happiness. According to Webster’s Dictionary Joy is “the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires.” Happiness is “a pleasurable or satisfying experience.” Using…
Confidence (a bible-marking study)
The greek words translated confidence usually mean reliance or trust. Let’s look first at what we are NOT to have confidence in, then consider what we should have confidence in. Use your own bible to mark the scriptures. References are from the NKJV. WE ARE NOT TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN… PEOPLE Why? Because men are…
Whose Daughters You Are (1 Peter 3:1-6)
Why does Peter call Christian Women the daughters of Sarah in 1 Peter 3:6, and what does this passage say to women today? Peter writes this letter to the “pilgrims of the dispersion” (1:1), Jewish Christians who had been dispersed outside of Palestine. He tells them that they are chosen, royal and God’s own special…