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It is that which you lay up for yourself to draw from in your marriage to support your role as wife, and mother and woman in your community.
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The Dowry -
To be a Helpmeet
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Written by Rachel Weaver
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Let me take you back 33 years ago when a young man and a young lady were courting.
They lived about 600 miles apart and most of their courting was done by letter. One day, after about a year of courtship, mostly by mail, the young lady was feeling very insecure. She looked at the problems in the home where she was born and in many of the homes of the students that she was teaching. As she looked, she realized that the wife and mother of the home held a very important key to making the home happy. She knew that it also depended on the man, but she was looking at her own role. She began to wonder if she could do her part to make a happy home. She knew this was God’s plan, but she had never had a good role model to watch closely. Could she do it? Was it better for her to stay single and teach school and be happy in the calling she was finding so fulfilling?
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Read more... [Marriage is like a Garden]
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The Dowry -
To be a Helpmeet
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Written by L.M., Kansas
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I remember as a girl thinking about what I wanted to do when I grew up. I thought maybe I could be a missionary—all the missionary stories we heard made it sound like an exciting adventure to go into foreign lands and lead heathen to the Lord! It would be nice to be a mother, I thought, to have babies to take care of and my own little house to work in.
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Read more... [My Career ... Or His?]
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The Dowry -
Vibrant Christianity
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Written by Paul Lloyd
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Do you believe that we were created for worship? Revelation 4:10-11 tells us, “The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
At a recent homeschool convention, I was blessed by one of the workshops. Not many people were at this particular workshop. The workshop was called “Understanding Biblical Worship in an Age of American Idolatry.” I guess not many people thought that such a theme applied to them or that it was pertinent to their life. But worship does pertain to all of us.
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Read more... [Created for Worship]
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The Dowry -
Vibrant Christianity
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Written by Rachel Weaver
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What would you think if one morning upon waking you were to read your own obituary in the paper? This actually happened to Alfred Nobel, originator of the famous Nobel Prizes in the late 1800s.
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Read more... [My Obituary]
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The Dowry -
Fidelity
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Written by Joanne Smith
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Joanne Smith, Monett, MO
I grew up in a non-religious home with my dad and my brother. My grandma took us to her little Independent Fundamental Baptist church every now and then, but not regularly. We did not really care to go, but enjoyed getting rewards for attending and bringing a Bible. In our minds, it was worth enduring the two hours for the treats.
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Read more... [Testimony of Grace]
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