Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Bolt of Lightning Theme of the Week: Slipknot Friday, October 15, 2004
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Men of IntegritySeptember/October 2004Bolt of LightningTheme of the Week: SlipknotFriday, October 1575
Key Bible Verse: This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one (Genesis 2:24). Bonus Reading:Genesis 2:18–25
Lesley Hughes was taking Emily swimming one hot August day when her four year old asked her, "Why do people get married?"
"Because they love each other and want to have a family together," her mom replied.
Emily thought a moment before driving the logic to its conclusion: "So you and Dad-dy don't love each other and don't want more babies."
"I stopped the car because I realized she was smarter than I," says Lesley. "We didn't even go to the pool. We went home." She remembers going straight to her partner, Greg Furholter, and saying, "We have to get married."
The Montreal couple had gotten engaged young, lived together for a decade, and had two kids. Emily's question made them realize they needed to make their commitment official and public.
They'd been attending Westview Bible Church, mostly for social reasons. When they approached pastor David Knight about marrying them, recalls Lesley, "I thought he'd marry us within a week." In-stead he counseled them for six weeks first, "teaching us about God-centered homes and relationships." Soon after the wedding, both made commitments to follow Jesus.
—Debra Fieguth in Faith Today
My Response: What must I commit to to create a God-centered home?
Thought to Apply: There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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