Building Your Child’s Character From the Inside Out (Part 5)

Training By Don Ruhl Why does anyone succeed at life? Someone trained him or her. Watch any child grow up and succeed at life. It did not happen by accident. In some cases, it happened in spite one’s parents. However, in the majority of cases, the parents and others trained those children. Knowing of the […]

A Minor in “Gay Culture”

By Don Ruhl After considering the movement to teach the Bible in public school (Covered in another article http://thebiblemeditator.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/teach-the-bible-in-school/) and the subject of this article, we have to agree with Charles Dickens as he began A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the […]

Loving God First

Good Housekeeping ran an article promoting love of God above all By Don Ruhl When one of our daughters was younger, she would say, “Dad, I love God and Jesus more than I love you.” She would say the same to her mother. She was not attempting to hurt us or put us down. Truly, […]

Building Your Child’s Character From the Inside Out (Part 4)

Parental Influence By Don Ruhl Influences bombard our children. They are our children, but the world does not seem to care, influencing them in ways the world desires. Some of that we can control, especially when the children are young, but as they grow, it becomes more difficult. Therefore, we want to minimize those influences […]

Building Your Child’s Character From the Inside Out (Part 3)

  From the Inside Out   By Don Ruhl   I did not baby-sit my children, even as mothers do not baby-sit their children. When a father stays home with the kids while the mother is shopping or something, why do we say that the father is baby-sitting his own children? Then I read this, […]

Building Your Child’s Character From the Inside Out (Part 2)

  Family Devotionals   By Don Ruhl   An assassin shot President Garfield. Some people met for prayer. One of them said, “Twenty-six years ago tonight, and at this very hour, our class [members] were on the top of Graylock to spend the Fourth of July. As we were about to lie down to sleep, […]

Building Your Child’s Character From the Inside Out (Part 1)

  Who has all the answers?   By Don Ruhl   Young childless couples observe couples with children and see things they like and do not like. Sometimes the childless couples formulate infallible child-rearing philosophies. Reality sets in when they have children. It proves to be a formidable task. They wrestle with their invincible philosophies […]

Marriage and the Song of Solomon

By Don Ruhl   The nature of the Song of Solomon may make some people think that there is no practical value in the Song, because it does not show marriage in typical everyday life. We do not see Solomon and the Shulamite going through household chores, paying the bills, and dealing with children. What […]

Creating a Joyful Home

By Don Ruhl A joyful home comes from the continuation of love. The fact that the Bible commands husbands and wives, parents and children to love one another might seem unnecessary, but the truth is that families often do not practice love. Husbands and wives are commanded by God in Scripture to love one another […]