Heart of the Staff March 2024 This is a season in which many wedding engagement announcements and/or invitations are sent and received. As I settled down one evening, I was glancing at our framed wedding pictures and thinking about our various occasions. It reminded me of my own dating, selections of ring, time of proposal,…
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I am referring to the last post on September 1, 2022, regarding The Home – Is it Made, Purchased, or Given. The portion of this series was comparing Jacob’s home life as a picture of Christ’s church. We pick back up with the second mistake Samson made was to go to the Harlot in Gaza. …
Heart of the Staff I am picking back up with this series from the last post on March 23, 2022, and Jacob’s Home-Life as a picture of Christ’s Church. The promise of God to Israel was through Jacob, even as the promise of God to the world is through Jesus. Jacob was chosen by God…
If you are keeping in touch with the “Heart of the Staff” posts, these are now being done monthly. I will be picking back up with this series from the December 2021 post. This part of the series may seem a longer read each time due to posts only being shared once a month on…
I left off with the last part of this series with Isaac and Rebekah being brought together by the will of God. As we continue, we can love whom we choose providing both partners receive the same kind of love they give, and have their lives first committed to God in submission to His will. …
This week’s article picks back up with the conditions under which Isaac and Rebekah were brought together. The Father sought to please and bring fulfillment to his son. Isaac was the promised son to Abraham and Sarah in their old age, and Isaac’s mother had died, therefore, the time had come for the father…
As I continue with these writings, The Home – Made, Purchased or Given, I hope that you will stay connected with this series. There will be something special revealed at the end of these writings that I hope will be received and appreciated as it is intended. God honored his established home to the…
The Home – God’s Institution teaches us about love. God is Love. 1 John 4:8. God’s very being is love. Therefore, His First Commandment given on Mount Sinai was to love God. When asked about the first and greatest commandment, Jesus, His Son answered, “The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel, The…
The Home – God’s Institution teaches us about love. God is Love. 1 John 4:8. God’s very being is love. Therefore, His First Commandment given on Mount Sinai was to love God. When asked about the first and greatest commandment, Jesus, His Son answered, “The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel, The…
The first instruction given to man and woman as a family is found in Genesis 2:17, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” The home then becomes a place of teaching—God teaching parents…