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What would it be like if you had to qualify for marriage? What if being a husband or wife was like meeting the qualifications for an important job or applying for a loan? I know it’s silly, and nothing like that would ever happen, but it is something to ponder.It’s a general assumption that you know how to be a husband and father if you’re a male. And if you’re a female, you know how to be a wife and mother. It comes naturally! That’s obviously not true.You are invited to join Dr. T. D....

The modern trend in the church today is to hold multiple services for different segments of the congregation. Certainly, if the crowd is overflowing, and while you are awaiting the completion of a bigger facility, this may be the only alternative a local congregation has. Also, if a majority of your members are shift workers who cannot attend at one specific hour, it is understandable that accommodations should be made to minister to the whole flock. Perhaps there are other ...

Valentine's Day isn't what it used to be. Originally, it was associated with the union of lovers by God under conditions of stress. Later it was celebrated by the exchange of romantic messages called valentines. The Catholic church was not impressed with the observance, because in 1969 Saint Valentine's feast was dropped from their calendar.So, Valentine's Day began as a commemoration of spiritual love, later became a celebration of committed interpersonal love, and today has beco...

While Adam slept, God was doing something marvelous and wonderful. God was creating him a helpmate so that the man would not be alone. Adam could not help but love Eve, for she was created by God especially for him. She was the ideal for him, the perfect match, and the perfect compliment. Now, the spark of love that a man can only have for a wife was kindled for the first time. Perhaps, for a time, Adam had enjoyed the companionship of a puppy or some other pet, but now all that assumed ...

Many of the problems that plague us as Christians begin with misplaced identity. We forget who we are as chosen, purchased, and commissioned children of God, and think of ourselves primarily through the lens of something else — success at work, the well-being of our children, the fruitfulness of our ministry, our feelings of fulfillment, or our ability to achieve our goals and dreams. We may even see ourselves defined by our greatest temptation, struggle, or through our suffering.When y...

It is likely that we will face many challenges in this coming year. This week I would like to give you a “pep talk” of encouragement and motivation. One of the best examples is found in Joshua, chapter 1. In this chapter, Joshua has taken over for Moses. Moses had just died and was buried in Moab, without ever setting foot into the Promised Land.Joshua was going to be the new leader of this group of people that had just spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness. Joshua must...

Are you entering this new year feeling like your life may be haunted by memories of the past? Does it ever feel like something unresolved is wandering the hallways of your heart and mind? Something that you know is out of place in your Christian life? Maybe it’s a secret, known only to you; and perhaps that’s best. It needs to go away, and you know it, but it won’t; and it has perhaps been there for years. At the end of the day, your self-perception often defines ...

You are invited to join Dr. T. D. Worthington for this week’s edition of PathLight. In this study, we are going to discuss the fact that Jesus was the Son of David, and we’re going to take a look at how the kingship and kingdom of Jesus are related to David. Not just from the genealogy, but as a working model of our Lord’s eternal kingship. To know Jesus as the Scripture presents Him, requires a growing knowledge of David. Luke identifies Christ with David dozens of times in...

At this time of the year, believers all over the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. His birth is one of the greatest miracles that has ever occurred, for it was a moment when God Almighty laid aside His glory and appeared on earth as a man. How wonderful, to think that God would temporarily shed His divine appearance and actually take on the flesh of man! Yet this is precisely what happened the day Jesus was born in Bethlehem.When Paul explains the text on God becoming a man, he start...

When I was a kid, I used to countdown the days before Christmas. Every year around the first of October the Christmas sales brochures would start arriving and I would start counting down the days. Now that I am much older, I have started a new Christmas countdown. You see I am now 71 years old, so I realize that I may not have a lot of Christmases left. Please don’t misunderstand, I am not on some death watch, it is just that statistically I know my Christmases are run...