Sarah and Emerson Eggerichs are convinced that a truth hidden in plain sight for 2000 years can make a difference in every marriage. This truth is found in Ephesians 5:33 . Husbands must love their wives, and wives must respect their husbands.
Emerson writes, "You may remember how the Beatles sang, 'All you need is love.' I absolutely disagree with that conclusion. Five out of ten marriages today are ending in divorce because love alone is not enough. Yes, love is vital, especially for the wife, but what we have missed is the husband's need for respect. This Love and Respect message is about how the wife can fulfill her need to be loved by giving her husband what he needs—respect. And the husband can fulfill his need to be respected by giving his wife what she needs—love. Does this always work? No. But if one is married to a person of good will, I would bet the farm that it would work!"
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Once Upon A Time...
That may be how many love stories start, but those are fairy tales. I want to share with you a love story that far surpasses any fairy tale!! This particular story is about True Love!!
My dear friend, Michelle, would sometimes tell me about her husband’s friend, Andy. She said we both had things in common, were active in evangelism, etc. And hoped that someday we could meet. I thought if she tried any matchmaking, like asking if she could give him my phone # or email, I would just say no. At the time Andy lived in Colorado; and I in Florida. Michelle and her husband, Chris, lived in Texas.
Chris & Michelle helped fly me out to visit with the Delta credit they had. Chris wanted Andy to visit during that time so he could have a friend there too. That was August '06 when we first met. Andy & Chris kept us ladies laughing the whole week! Fun and funny memories!! But because I was so opposed to any matchmaking attempts, I didn’t go out of my way to get to know him. We started to get to know each other better through email a few months later. In August '07 we met again in Texas after which we began a Bible study over the phone. We know the Lord had His hand in orchestrating the timing in all this because it was the only week that was the best for us both - two years in a row! In August '08 the Wrights & Andrew visited my family & me in Florida.
At this point we discussed pursuing a deeper relationship. After he talked to my parents we began courting! Needless to say, cupids Michelle & Chris, were thrilled.
Thanks to a generous gift by the Wrights, Andy was able to visit again in October and meet the rest of my family: Gills and my brother, Andrew.
this was taken after my friend, Jamie's wedding.
where he is an art teacher at a Christian school. We are continuing a weekly Bible study over the phone. He is a strong man of God. He has a heart for youth, is great with kids, believes in active evangelism and is a blessing in my life in so many ways!!!
He proposed on New Years Day!! What a way to start the New Year ♥More to come about that…
My dear friend, Michelle, would sometimes tell me about her husband’s friend, Andy. She said we both had things in common, were active in evangelism, etc. And hoped that someday we could meet. I thought if she tried any matchmaking, like asking if she could give him my phone # or email, I would just say no. At the time Andy lived in Colorado; and I in Florida. Michelle and her husband, Chris, lived in Texas.
Chris & Michelle helped fly me out to visit with the Delta credit they had. Chris wanted Andy to visit during that time so he could have a friend there too. That was August '06 when we first met. Andy & Chris kept us ladies laughing the whole week! Fun and funny memories!! But because I was so opposed to any matchmaking attempts, I didn’t go out of my way to get to know him. We started to get to know each other better through email a few months later. In August '07 we met again in Texas after which we began a Bible study over the phone. We know the Lord had His hand in orchestrating the timing in all this because it was the only week that was the best for us both - two years in a row! In August '08 the Wrights & Andrew visited my family & me in Florida.
At this point we discussed pursuing a deeper relationship. After he talked to my parents we began courting! Needless to say, cupids Michelle & Chris, were thrilled.
I thank the Lord for using them in our lives
THANK YOU WRIGHT FAMILY!!!!!
THANK YOU WRIGHT FAMILY!!!!!
Thanks to a generous gift by the Wrights, Andy was able to visit again in October and meet the rest of my family: Gills and my brother, Andrew.
this was taken after my friend, Jamie's wedding.Andy currently lives in
where he is an art teacher at a Christian school. We are continuing a weekly Bible study over the phone. He is a strong man of God. He has a heart for youth, is great with kids, believes in active evangelism and is a blessing in my life in so many ways!!!
He proposed on New Years Day!! What a way to start the New Year ♥More to come about that…
Monday, March 09, 2009
Time to celebrate
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
MOM!!!!!
I thank God for you! I am richly blessed that you are our mom. I am grateful for how you lovingly labored through the years to train us up in the Lord! Giving! Serving!! Equipping!!!
Praise the Lord for His blessings!
Melissa has pictures on her blog Elijah's Adventures of how we celebrated on March 8th
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
My Sister, My Friend
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELISSA!!!!
Dear Lord, I thank you for Melissa. For her care & concern for children and animals. For her heart for the spiritually lost. She has such a merciful heart. I am grateful for the memories we've made... sharing a lot of laughter. I'm grateful we have a strong bond. That she is my sister. That she is my friend. What a blessing she is in my life! Thank you for allowing us to be more than biological sister! We are sister in you, Lord, which means we will spend eternity together! I praise you for this fact!! Because it makes me joyful and blesses my heart more than I can say!!Melissa, I like how we laugh so much when we are together. How we say things at the same time How we are telepathic =) I will miss you a great deal Will continue to pray as the Lord leads you and your family.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Grammy, I Celebrate You!
I gave Grammy a book with poems & sayings; in between you add personal touches. I wrote it out but also wanted to share it here. It's called
'I Celebrate You, Grandmother!'
My sweet memories of special times with you:
watching you stand on your head
reading to us
tucking us into bed
telling us true stories
traveling with you
going out to eat
reunion in Canada
summer spent with you in FL
watching that comedy movie (forget name?)
This is how you've strengthened my faith:
Seeing how you handle life & all you've been through...with praise & giving God the glory is so encouraging to me! I've told so many people about the qualities I admire in you & realize: have I ever told you? Even if I have, I haven't said it enough!!!
I celebrate you kindness:
the generous gifts you give
you give of your time
you go above & beyond, never thinking of yourself. Other are your priority
Sharing Christ with words and actions
Being heavenly minded = conscious of eternity
I celebrate your goodness
the fruits of the spirit evident in your life
your prayer & praise life
your servant heart
you minister tirelessly day in & day out, giving 110%
This is my prayer for you Grandmother:
I pray for continued strength & health. That you will know that Christ is truly the sum of all spiritual things. In other words we don't need to ask for goodness or power or anything since through the Holy Spirit Christ IS everything for us. I have & will continue to pray for you & Grandpa.
I love you very much!
Friday, January 09, 2009
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Missions Quotes
We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! -C.T. Studd
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. - C.T. Studd
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies. - J. Hudson Taylor
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary. - C.T. Studd
"Not called!" did you say? "Not heard the call," I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world.
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives…and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. - Nate Saint
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. - C.T. Studd
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies. - J. Hudson Taylor
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary. - C.T. Studd
"Not called!" did you say? "Not heard the call," I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world.
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives…and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. - Nate Saint
Quotes
Suffering is a wonderful fertilizer for the roots of character. A.P. from 'Streams in the Desert'
~*~
May our lives be
impassioned
only by faith...
be influenced only by God...
be taught only by Christ..
~ Max Lucado~
About humility
Come, oh come! Let us away! Lower, lower every day! Oh, what joy it is to race Down to find the lowest place. That is the dearest law we know - "It is so happy to go low." Sweetest urge and sweetest will - "Let us go down lower still." Hear the summons night and day Calling us to come away! From the heights we leap and flow To the valleys down below. Always answering to the call To the lowest place of all Sweetest urge and sweetest pain - To go low and rise again.
Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
~*~
May our lives be
impassioned
only by faith...
be influenced only by God...
be taught only by Christ..
~ Max Lucado~
About humility
Come, oh come! Let us away! Lower, lower every day! Oh, what joy it is to race Down to find the lowest place. That is the dearest law we know - "It is so happy to go low." Sweetest urge and sweetest will - "Let us go down lower still." Hear the summons night and day Calling us to come away! From the heights we leap and flow To the valleys down below. Always answering to the call To the lowest place of all Sweetest urge and sweetest pain - To go low and rise again.
Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Aborted and lived to tell about it
FIND MORE INFO AT ELIJAH'S ADVENTURES - GIANNA JESSEN
THANK YOU MELISSA FOR THIS INFORMATIVE POST!!
i want to take this opportunity to feature these very important websites:
Abort73.com
After Abortion Survey
Black Genocide
Born Alive Truth
ProLife or ProChoice?
Friday, July 11, 2008
An Interesting Quiz
How would you respond in these situations?
1. A preacher and his wife are very, very poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she’s pregnant with the 15th. They’re living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion?
2. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. Of their four children, the first is blind, the second has died, the third is deaf, the fourth has TB. She finds she’s pregnant again. Given this extreme situation, would you consider recommending abortion?
3. A white man raped a 13-year-old black girl and she’s now pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?
4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She’s not married. Her fiancé is not the father of the baby, and he’s upset. Would you recommend abortion?
In the first case, you would have killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists in the 19th century. In the second case, you would have killed Beethoven. In the third case, you would have killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer. If you said yes to the fourth case, you would have declared the murder of Jesus Christ!
God is the author of life, and He has given every single individual supreme value. Each life—whether inside or outside the womb—should therefore be valued by us. God knows the plans He has for each individual and has written in His book all the days ordained for us before one of them came to be. When we presume to know better than God who should be given life, we are putting ourselves in the place of God and are guilty of idolatry.
http://www.livingwaters.com/witnessingtool/aninterestingquiz.shtml
1. A preacher and his wife are very, very poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she’s pregnant with the 15th. They’re living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion?
2. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. Of their four children, the first is blind, the second has died, the third is deaf, the fourth has TB. She finds she’s pregnant again. Given this extreme situation, would you consider recommending abortion?
3. A white man raped a 13-year-old black girl and she’s now pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?
4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She’s not married. Her fiancé is not the father of the baby, and he’s upset. Would you recommend abortion?
In the first case, you would have killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists in the 19th century. In the second case, you would have killed Beethoven. In the third case, you would have killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer. If you said yes to the fourth case, you would have declared the murder of Jesus Christ!
God is the author of life, and He has given every single individual supreme value. Each life—whether inside or outside the womb—should therefore be valued by us. God knows the plans He has for each individual and has written in His book all the days ordained for us before one of them came to be. When we presume to know better than God who should be given life, we are putting ourselves in the place of God and are guilty of idolatry.
http://www.livingwaters.com/witnessingtool/aninterestingquiz.shtml
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