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A friend of mine e-mailed me, asking the following question: “Hey, what are your beliefs and thoughts on semi-blind dating?” She said she thought it would be a good topic for my blog, too, so I told her I’d post my answer here.   You know, I’ve heard people caution that dating often causes one [...]

“Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after [...]

Julia and I were kindred spirits from the start. Both endowed with the gift of exhortation, we spent our time together as young girls dreaming up ideas and making plans for how we could teach others and share with them the things of the Lord. At long last our plans came to fruition. In the [...]

To some of my readers, the principles and ideas I have presented will seem both idealistic and unrealistic. But let me assure you – God’s way does work! Sadly, I have seen the negative effect the failure to live by these principles has produced as close friends have exchanged their “first love” for the pursuit [...]

We have spent a great deal of time and study to finally arrive back at the question from whence we began, “Should girls go to college?” This is an excellent question to ask, and I believe that with the foundation laid thus far, every girl will be able to carefully consider her answer to this [...]

Based upon what we have discovered in our study thus far, we can say that the primary focus of an unmarried woman should be to “Grow in her knowledge and understanding of Scripture and in her relationship with Jesus Christ.” This principle is consistent with the rest of Scripture, which teaches that true success is [...]

Now that we have discovered that the primary role of an unmarried woman is to care for “the things of the Lord,” it would behoove us to understand what those “things” are. There are two examples given in Scripture that especially give light to the meaning of this phrase. The first is found in a [...]

Thus, the question set forth has yet to be answered, “What’s an unmarried woman to do?” There is only one place where the Bible specifically addresses the situation of the unmarried woman in contrast to that of the married woman. We would do well to carefully consider the words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:34-35, [...]

What’s an unmarried woman to do? With this question at the forefront of my mind, my search for an answer began in the pages of Scripture. What does God have to say about unmarriage? (Can that please be a word? If you will so humor me, for the sake of this series “unmarriage” will be [...]

The young woman carefully folded another shirt and placed it in the open suitcase. As she did so, the brightly-colored fabric of another shirt caught her eye. She eased it out from its sandwiched position and held it up for reconsideration. Did she really need it? She had to admit, it didn’t seem quite as [...]

[Let me say one thing before I jump into the topic at hand. This area I’m addressing is one in which I’ve swung from one extreme to another. I’ve found myself influenced over the years by those on opposite ends of the spectrum and have subscribed to different views at different times. Only recently have [...]

Some time ago, Lydia asked me about the possibility of writing a guest post for her blog on a new series she was going to start on the topic of whether girls should go to college. After tossing the idea around for a while, I decided to accept her offer. Little did I know what [...]