Highest Priority: Prayer

"Common sense tells us that the highest priority must be given to prayer if we hope to enhance our children’s spiritual development… Effective intercession for our children requires that we pray with the mind engaged, in detail, with appropriate earnestness, and that both parents should often pray for their children together." ~ Kent & Barbara Hughes

SERIOUS DANGER!

"We are in serious danger of losing coming generations to shallowness, immorality, and heresy because they are not digging deep into Scripture and great books grounded in Scripture. Families and churches who are committed to building Christian character that will endure must address this problem head-on." ~ Randy Alcorn

“I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you” ~ Psalm 119:11.

No Careless Charges

‎"Don’t let your home or heart become a breeding ground for criticism or careless charges about your church leaders." ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss (1 Timothy 5:19)

Change of Address...

‎"You can't kill a Christian. You can only change his address." ~ Pastor Duke Downs

The Good Divorce

‎"There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ." ~ Charles Spurgeon

Imperfect...

"Father, accept my imperfect repentance, have compassion on my infirmities, forgive my faults, purify my uncleanness, strengthen my weakness, and let your good Spirit watch over me forever, and your love ever rule in my heart, through the merits and sufferings and love of your Son, in whom you are always well pleased." ~ John Wesley

John Wesley's Dying Words

John Wesley spoke his dying words “Best of all, God is with us,” on this day, March 2 1791 (Repost from Gary Thomas)

Individualized Education

‎"Remember God, not the state, owns your children. God’s ways and standards are in no way inferior to the state’s. God’s design for your children’s education is not only superior but also individualized. It will prepare your children, in their own time and way, to be and do what God has created and called them for. Your child is not a “third grader.” Your child is “Johnny Smith.” He is an individual with an individual pace and way of learning, for an individual purpose God created him for, placed in your individual family to nurture that in him." ~ from Quick Start Guide to Freedom & Simplicity™ through Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™.

Contrite Spirit

"O Lord, I want to offer an evening sacrifice, the sacrifice of a contrite spirit. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your great goodness and the multitude of your mercies. Cleanse me from all filthiness of flesh and spirit that I may follow you with a pure heart and mind. Amen." ~ John Wesley

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”


“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”


“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”


“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”


“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
~ Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”

“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”


“It is better to know how to learn than to know.”


“Be who you are and say what you mean. Because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

Read to a Child

‎"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child." ~ Dr. Seuss

Train Your Children to Pray

“Parents, if you love your children, do all that lies within your power to train them to have a habit of prayer. Show them how to begin. Tell them what to say. Encourage them to persevere. Remind them that if they become careless and slack about it. Let it not be your fault, if they never call on the name of the Lord." ~ J.C. Ryle

What Happens When Women Say Yes to God

‎"I am not a woman who should be labeled unable. I am a woman on a journey of learning how to make sure my reactions won't deny Christ's presence in me. I am a woman who says yes to God not because my emotions and reactions are always perfect. No, I say yes to God because He is perfectly able to forgive me, love me, remind me, challenge me and show me how to weather trials in ways that prove His Spirit resides in me. I remind myself often that people don't care to meet my Jesus until they meet the reality of Jesus in my life." ~ Lysa TerKeurst (Made to Crave: Chapter 4, What Happens When Women Say Yes to God)

Negligent?

When someone acts weak, negligent, or casual in a duty - performing it carelessly or lifelessly, without any genuine satisfaction, joy, or interest - he has already entered into the spirit that will lead him into trouble. How many we see today who have departed from warmhearted service and have become negligent, careless, and indifferent in their prayer life or in the reading of the Scriptures. For each one who escapes this peril, a hundred others will be ensnared. Then it may be too late to acknowledge, "I neglected private prayer," or "I did not meditate on God's Word," or "I did not hear what I should have listened to." ~ John Owen