Cloistered Homeschool Syndrome
Cultivate a Habit of Thankfulness
“In this world of corruption there is real danger that the earnest Christian may overreact in his resistance to evil and become a victim of the religious occupational disease, cynicism. The constant need to go counter to popular trends may … Read more
Weird Traditions
If a single girl leaves her parents home before she is married, does she lose her father’s “covering?”
How Do I Choose a Wife?
A young man asks for advice, wondering when is the right time to pursue a relationship? At what point does he need to start engaging her family, and how should he go about this? Mike weighs in…
The Shaft
It is hard being a young man nowadays with porn everywhere. It is even more discouraging when it sits across from you on a high stool at church.
Depression Grooving Research
Science has proven that there is no such thing as “can’t help it.” Mike and I knew all through these 50 years of counseling, but what could we say to someone who came to us for help? Call them a liar? Tell them they could help it if they’d just repent and turn to God? In most cases they were too entrenched behind the wall of inability and victimhood. Oh, the beauty of having a new weapon against this age old self-deception. Now we can say, “Let’s go get a scan of your brain. I’m paying.”
A Young Lady Writes…
I am courting a wonderful Godly young man, who I’m convinced is the man I will eventually marry. His parents are good, Christian people, but I have never heard him say one good thing about his parents. Anything he has … Read more
Teens Preparing for Responsibility
Wise teens will be constantly preparing for what amounts to survival in this uncertain world.
A Bachelor’s Discovery (It’s About Time!)
The biggest hurdle for me has been the religious idea that I have to wait on God to give me a wife. But in the last couple of years, I have done almost a 180 on my view of God’s part and man’s part in finding a wife.
From Our Mailbox
Dear Mrs. Pearl, I am 14 years old, and I have a question concerning hearing the voice of God. I think that God has told me a young man in our church is going to be my husband one day. … Read more
New Book! The Hidden Help Meet
Sometimes God gives a man an astoundingly powerful message. God blessed Denny Kenaston with such a message. It was called “The Hidden Woman.” He preached it often, and men and women fell before God in thanksgiving with a yearning to … Read more
