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God the Architect Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Psalm 127:1a Recommend Reading Psalm 127 Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the twentieth century's most well-known architects, practiced "organic architecture" - designs that flow out of and reflect the context of their environment.…

Touching poem about the importance of family

The CBS Drama Blue Bloods includes in almost every episode a Sunday Dinner where four generations of the family get together to reconnect and process their lives. A rare event these days. Certainly, the four generations part, but also the sitting down and talking about life over a meal. Busy schedules…

International researchers found that screen use among teenagers rose to 7.7 hours a day during the pandemic as compared to an average of 3.8 hours pre-pandemic. The study found that multiple-player gaming, single-player gaming, texting, social media, video chatting, internet browsing, and steaming movies…

An employee of a North Carolina thrift store found a 146-year-old marriage certificate hidden in the frame of an 1899 print of a painting depicting a small girl and a dog. When she found the certificate Pam Phelps knew she needed to try to locate relatives of the couple. The certificate, dated 1865,…

Bill Patrick Sr. and Bill Patrick Jr., a father and son who had not seen each other in almost 48 years had a reunion at a Pennsylvania Airport after the younger man’s aunt helped them find each other. Bill Jr. said, his mother left his father in Spring 1973 and all he knew about his father was the information…

A Boy Scout troop from Texas is helping residents of an assisted living center get closer to their visitors by providing a “hug booth.” The center in Webster, Texas had imposed strict safety measures to protect residents from coronavirus and the local troop 848 built a booth to meet the specifications…

A pair of sisters from Nebraska were reunited after 50 years when one sister ended up becoming the other’s medication aide while she was recovering from coronavirus. Bev Boro serves as a medication aide at a care facility in Fremont. She noticed the name of Doris Crippen on the patient list and was excited…

Social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus has taken a toll on patients in hospitals and health care facilities because those people are isolated and cannot connect directly with their families. John Lynch experienced separation when his father, who was at a memory care unit passed away.…

WalletHub conducted a survey to see how Americans are coping with the Social Distancing mandates imposed on them by the government. They discovered that “34 percent of Americans are most looking forward to seeing family once this is over, more than the amount that are most excited to see friends or go…

A review of several studies published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal confirms what many parents feared about the potentially harmful impact of social media. The reviews stated the teenagers who spend less time socializing in person and have easy access to online information about suicide…

In 2017, child welfare officials removed about 90,000 children and teens from their families because of a parent who had a substance abuse problem. Welfare officials estimate that about 6 million children younger than age 11 have parents who suffer from drug addiction. The Week, November 8, 2019 P. 16…

In his book, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You, Andy Stanley writes, "The people closest to you routinely catch the flak thrown off by the explosive stuff you normally work so hard to keep hidden." –Jim L. Wilson Enemies of the Heart, 23 Proverbs 4:23 (CSB) “Guard…

A Washington D.C. father went to social media for help unlocking his iPad after his son accidentally locked it. Evan Osnos, tweeted a picture of his iPad lock screen which informed him the device had been locked for over 25 million minutes because his toddler had guessed the wrong password too many times.…

Stephen Baskerville has written a new book entitled, The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power. In it, he emphasizes the importance of intact families and the destructive influence of our structures. Baskerville says, “In the past Christian…

Deland McCullough is the running backs coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. He always knew he was adopted but until he was 44 he never looked for his birth parents. Then he started looking. He found his birth mother through records and she told him who his father was. McCullough said he thought he would…

Police in Miami Beach, Florida say a man they identified as Kenneth came into the station to ask for their help with his proposal. The department agreed and they arranged for the couple to be pulled over as they drove down a city street. When the officer pulled the couple over, he asked them to get out…

In an article entitled, “What I would have done differently: Billy Graham’s regrets, in his own words,” Collin Hansen reports that Graham said, “I did not spend enough time with my family when they were growing up. You cannot recapture those years.” —Jim L. Wilson Christianity Today, April 2018, 95 Psalm…

In 2018, the high profile suicide of designer Kate Spade brought focused attention on the disturbing rise of suicide in our culture. The number of suicides among female teens rose 70% between 2010 and 2016 hitting a 40-year high in 2015. As we continue to look for reasons and answers, one element rises…

Jyll Justamond was finally able to spend Father’s Day with her biological father after searching for him for decades. All she knew was that her father’s name was Al, he was Italian, and the location of where he worked for 40 years. In a last ditch effort, Justamond made a post in a social media group…

A group of men in their twenties put an ad on Craigslist looking for a dad who could grill hot dogs and hamburgers for a Father’s Day gathering they had planned. None of group of men from Spokane lived with their fathers and did not feel they had the qualifications to be the “barbeque dad for the party…

For the first time in recorded history, more than half (54 percent) of American women ages 25-29 are childless, according to the U.S. Census Fertility Report. A record 31 percent of women ages 30-34 also haven’t given birth. According to US News, as the birth rate continues to drop it could mean lower…

Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia is also the director of the National Marriage Project. In an interview in World Magazine he states that “Men who work diligently, attend church with their spouse regularly, are emotionally engaged in their marriages, and don’t abuse drugs…