"Yesterday, God was very gracious to me; tomorrow he will be very gracious to me; and the same will be true the next day, and the next day, and the next day, until there shall be no more days, and time shall be swallowed up in eternity. Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace." ::Full Article::

This true story was written as a tribute to my Great-Uncle Paul, who is now with the Lord Jesus. ~Emilee
"...During Paul's boyhood years, he and his siblings stored up memories they would later unfold to their children and grandchildren, seasoned with laughter and tears. Life has its way of passing so swiftly. The childhood discoveries are now misty memories, which resurface upon the questioning sunlight of the next generation, when they ask, 'Tell me a story, Grandpa!'" ::Full Story::

"HOME! That name touches every fiber of the soul, and strikes every chord of the human heart as with angelic fingers. Nothing but death can break its hold. What tender associations are linked with home!" ::Full Article::

"...it's calling must be of God; its mission is divine; it is designed to subserve a spiritual purpose; it has a soul mission. This was the view of David when he 'returned home to bless his household.' To him his family was a church in miniature, and he its priest. Thus too Joshua felt his service of God must include family worship." ::Full Article::

"It is a law to our hearts, and binds us with an invisible cord that neither time nor change can break. The darkest villainies which have disgraced humanity cannot neutralize it. The home-influence is either a blessing or a curse, either for good or for evil. It cannot be neutral. In either case it is mighty..." ::Full Article::

"The Christian home is a stewardship. The parents are stewards of God... Their home is held by them only in trust. It belongs to them in the same sense in which a household belongs to a steward. It is not at their absolute disposal. It is the "household of the Lord," and they are to live and rule therein as the Lord directs." ::Full Article::

"The family is... a field; the seed of good or evil the parents can sow therein; their children are young and tender plants, entrusted to their care; their mission from God is to, '...bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.' (Ephesians. 6:4) They are also to train them up in His ways. Remember, where God gives the command, He also gives the power to obey." ::Full Article::

"Prayer is the key to open the day, and the bolt to shut in the night... A child of God's prayer will, from the deepest dungeon, climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down. Prayer is the wing where with the soul flies heavenward home, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God." ::Full Article::

"What sweet and hallowed memories cling like tendrils around that Book of Books! ...It was the household oracle of our grandfathers and grandmothers,--of our dear parents. How joyfully they gathered around the cheerful hearth to read this book divine. How often their hearts drew consolation from its living springs. What a balm it has poured into bleeding and disconsolate hearts. It has irradiated with the glories of eternal day, the darkest chamber of their home. What brilliant hopes and promises it has borne." ::Full Article::

"Human life, what is it? It is but a vapor. In youth the other world seems a great way off, but later we feel and realize that it is very close at hand... For a life lived without Christ is all for loss. What a terrible lesson to learn, as one steps into eternity, never to undo what was done." ::Full Article::

"Jeremiah gave this counsel twenty-five hundred years ago: 'make your ways and your doing good.' Habit is a well-trodden way, a worn path for the feet, a uniform style of doing. Make your own ways--your own habits--good, is what Jeremiah meant." ::Full Article::

"Recreation is a necessity of our hardworking, overstrained life. Men and women need it, and will have it. But should they go from home to find it?" ::Full Article::

"Above all things, teach the boys that truth is more than riches, more than culture, more than earthly power or position." ::Full Article::

"Some imaginations are trouble manufactories. They seem to have all the machinery for making trouble, and making the largest amount out of the least material. ...this machinery running together will work up first-class troubles out of meager materials when put to this work. And any portion of this machinery is helpful in producing imaginary troubles when the world does not go quite well with us." ::Full Article::

This poem, which was first published in 1883, speaks of the joy found in the home circle. ::Full Article::

"Home may be the brightest, most cheerful and happy place on the earth, or it may be directly the opposite. Men toil to make it the grandest of all institutions, and women strive to beautify it and make it the most attractive; while all can contribute to its joys and happiness, there is no concealing the fact, that God must be the center of the home." ::Full Article::

"A scold is one who reproves tauntingly, no matter how much right he or she may have to give the reproof. Such reproof may check the immediate fault against which is directed; but it does little if any good. The difficulty is that it betrays a worse weakness..." ::Full Article::