The Book of James: The author of this letter is James, the brother of Jesus Christ.
Mark 6 Jesus returned to Nazareth, his hometown. Then they scoffed, “He’s just a carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. And his sisters live right here among us.” They were deeply offended and refused to believe in him.

James was not a believer (John 7:5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.) until after the resurrection (Acts 1:14; 1 Corinthians 15:7; Galatians 1:19). He became the head of the Jerusalem church and is mentioned first as a pillar of the church (Galatians 2:9).

Walking And Talking

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We are in a series called Rings And Things and today we are actually dealing with the topic of being single. If you are single, chances are that many people are offering you their advice on what you should do. Grandma, aunt Myrtle, your married brother or sister, friends, and co-workers are all giving you their opinion about what you should do with your life. Or maybe if you are married now, you can remember what that was like. Today we are going to look at what the bible has to say about being single.

Singleness

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God designed the family with the intention that the parents would protect, train, love, and discipline the children. It’s the parents responsibility to help shape and mold the kids into the people that God has created them to be.

Training, Discipline, Consequences
Training is preparations for the future.
Discipline is corrective training in response to wrong behavior.
Consequences are the results and effects of our actions.  

Each of these have their own unique qualities and specific times of use. As a child develops and matures the usefulness and amounts of these will vary.

Parenting, pt.2

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God designed the family with the intention that the parents would protect, train, love, and discipline the children. It’s the parents responsibility to help shape and mold the kids into the people that God has created them to be.

The marriage relationship lays the first foundation to the parents/child relationship. With parenting, as with many things in life, more is caught than is taught. If you don’t listen to each other and talk back and fight, The kids will do the same.

One of the most important things we can do as parents is to agree to keep a unified stance in front of our children.

Parenting, pt.1

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