The High Price of a Sensual Girl

Two choices will have the greatest impact on your life. The first is your response to the Gospel. The second is your decision in whom you choose to marry.

II Timothy 2 was Paul's advice to a young pastor. The encouragement it contains however can apply directly to parenting. Like Timothy, parents are forced to handle a variety of situations. How can they use gentleness when they feel un-gentle?

Gil Bates has a clearly-stated goal for his family: to lead them in the Lord's ways. But the Lord had to coach him first. Gil's testimony tells how God challenged him at home and at work to do what he never wanted to do in order to be the man he wanted to be.

Gil Bates brings home a paradoxical proverb written directly to men: Proverbs 16:32. In this verse, Almighty God warns men that there is one virtue more valuable to families than any display of might or valor. Strength in this one area prevents untold destruction, division, and bodily injury.