SCCN NEWSWIRE for Women
TOP STORIES & FEATURES for the DAUGHTERS OF EVE
“My husband is so boring,” I heard a woman say recently. “Why can’t he be more exciting and adventurous? I’d love it if he would just stop being so predictable and plain.” What if we were able to just love our spouse for who they are, and not for who we wanted them to be? What would happen? What if for one week, each of us chose to unconditionally love our spouses? That’s right…“as is.” What about the fulfillment of our heart’s desires? Well, I guess we’d have to leave that in God’s court. If every married person accepted this challenge, I believe the results of that one week could spark a “marriage revolution.”
Flirtations and indiscretions with other humans may not be the most vexing problem facing American couples anymore. Computers and telephones are horning in on that loving relationship. In a new survey of 1,001 adults, 65 percent said they spent more time with their computers than their spouse or significant other.
Experts say this is probably the first time that married couples have become a minority of all American households. Women living without a spouse were at 51 percent in 2005, up from 35 percent in 1950. Traditional marriage advocate Tony Perkins, head of Family Research Council, however, believes the study used "faulty methods." Perkins noted that the Times defined "woman" as anyone over the age of 15, those who are legally separated, and anyone whose husband is not living at home, including soldiers on deployment in Iraq.
When couples registers for a Marriage Intensive at the National Institute of Marriage, they usually sign up as a last ditch effort to save the marriage. Though some people are caught “blindsided” by the request for separation, most experience countless warning signs long before a separation occurs. We would like to share with you some of our findings in an effort to help couples before it’s too late. Here are four warning signs.
In another legal challenge to faith-based funding, a secular watchdog group is suing the Bush administration for allegedly bankrolling "Bible-based" marriage counseling. The lawsuit was filed by a Muslim activist.
Guest Commentator Gregory Thompson puts the spotlight on teachers organizations and provides a Godly option for Christian teachers who want to have no affiliation with groups which work against God, Family, and Country.
Yorba Linda will play host to the Love and Respect conference, a Biblically-based marriage seminar that has toured all across the country and is supported by "Focus on the Family." Dr. Emerson Eggerichs outlines how "You can be right but WRONG at the top of your voice!"
Mission Valley Christian Fellowship will begin its 2007 women' Bible study February 13. The study, led by Sandra Giovinetti, is entitled He is the Great Shepherd & focuses on Psalms 23.
The latest crop of faith-based diet books are moving outside the realm of food and exercise, touting a more holistic approach that encourages everything from advanced hygiene, a challenge to feed the poor and a call to add a side of prayer and meditation alongside your veggies and hormone free meat.
Two Huntington Beach reading teachers have developed a reading improvement program for special needs students based on the work of Dr. Muriel E. Bruno, Phd. Dr. Bruno who died in 2001, developed hand- eye-ear coordination exercises and techniques for dyslexic, ADD, ADHD and special needs students.
Due to the recent events regarding sexual scandal with one of our nation's most prominent Christian leaders, it is important for us, as parents and leaders, to know how to talk to our teenagers about these situations. We need to help them process what they are hearing so they do not become disillusioned and weary of trusting Christian leadership
Ask almost any wife, and she'll say: "Even when my husband is hopelessly lost – and he knows it – he still won't stop and ask for directions. He'll keep driving around -- it makes me crazy!" Sound familiar?
A new volley has been lobbed by feminists at mothers who make their children a higher priority than their careers. Dr Janice Crouse, Senior Fellow of the Beverly LaHaye Institute has more on this new take on an old argument.
Marriage is of such importance that it is uniquely protected in the law and culture. It predates the law and the Constitution, and is an anthropological and sociological reality, not primarily a legal one. No civilization can survive without it, and those societies that allowed it to become irrelevant have faded into history.
We have a divorce epidemic in America today. Is it possible for "holy matrimony" to exist when one or both potential spouses have no love relationship with the Lord? Have we assumed that the pastoral office has no business barging into people's lives on these all-important issues?
