Category: Family

  • Letting kids be kids – shared article

    This article from Reason.com shares important information on how parents today are over-protecting their children.  We are raising a “fragile” generation. http://reason.com/archives/2017/10/26/the-fragile-generation When a man is sexually excited, viagra pill for sale helps the protecting of animals. Doing Kegel exercise during sitting, standing or buy line viagra walking can prove beneficial. Prostate Biopsy A biopsy…

  • Parents – you are in charge!

    Parents today have relinquished control of their families.  The children are making the decisions.  Instead of telling our children what they are to do we ask them.  For example “Jimmy, it is time to clean your room.”  Too often today we hear “Jimmy, would you mind tidying up your room?”   Big difference.  Parents have given…

  • You are responsible for YOU (Lesson 5)

    After twelve years of being a pastor I have conducted many sessions of marriage counseling.  There seems to be one consistent theme:  each individual wants me to tell their spouse what they need to fix.  No one ever comes in thinking that they themselves are the problem.  They all “know” that their spouse is the…

  • Five Essentials for Lasting Relationships – part 3 on Marriage and Family

    The following list of ‘Five Essentials for a Lasting Relationship’ are taken from a booklet of that name that I give to every couple that I counsel or am about to marry.  It is written by Pastor Ron Berrus of the Bible Baptist Church of Shiremanstown, PA who is a friend of mine. Essential #1…

  • Marriage and Family part 2 – Questions for Married Couples

    Having now completed ten years of the pastorate I have counseled countless couples going through various degrees of marriage difficulties.  Having studied, read and prepared over these years has lead me to compile the following list of questions which I always use.  This is a fluid list – I may add to it at any…

  • Marriage & Family – Part 1

    Beginning with this post I will focus on issues that families and couples deal with.  I will focus on some of the counseling advice and, more importantly, some of the Biblical advice we have as we face these issues. As an introduction, here are 3 important facts to consider: 1) Satan is real and Satan…

  • We’re losing our Grandparents influence.

    I believe our culture is beginning to feel the effects of a society that is having their children later in life.  A hundred years ago (and practically all of recorded history before that) people married young and had children young.  It was unusual for a woman to begin having children after the age of 30.…