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June 4, 2014 by kevinstilley

Marriage and Home book recommendations

Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, has recommended the following books on Marriage and Home.  What do you think?  What changes would you make to the list?

Akin, Daniel L. God on Sex: The Creator’s Ideas about Love, Intimacy and Marriage from the Song of Songs. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2003.

Crabb, Lawrence J. The Marriage Builder: A Blueprint for Couples and Counselors. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982.

Cutrer, William, and Sandra Glahn. When Empty Arms Become a Heavy Burden: Encouragement for Couples Facing Infertility. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1997.

Dobson James. Parenting Isn’t for Cowards. Dallas: Word, 1987.

_______ . The New Dare to Discipline. Wheaton: Tyndale, 1992.

Harley, Williard F., Jr. His Needs, Her Needs. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.

Lahaye, Tim and Beverly. The Act of Marriage. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1976.

Powlison, David. Seeing With New Eyes. Phillipsberg, N.J.: P & R, 2003.

Smalley, Gary, and John Trent. The Gift of the Blessing. upd. and exp. Nashville: Nelson, 1993.

Thomas, Gary. Sacred Marriage. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002.

Tripp, Paul David. Shepherding a Child’s Heart. rev. ed. Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press, 1998.

Wheat, Ed, and Gaye. Intended for Pleasure. rev. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981.

Wright, H. Norman. Marital Counseling: A Biblically-Based Behavioral, Cognitive Approach. Denver: Christian Marriage Enrichment, 1981.

_______ . Pre-Marital Counseling. Chicago: Moody, 1977.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Family, Theology Tagged With: bibliography, Book Recommendation, Daniel Akin, Family, home, Parenting, reading list, SEBTS, sex

May 28, 2010 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

If you were able to retrieve only one thing on your way out of your burning home, what would it be?

(Share your answers in the comments below.)

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, cherished, Family, home, memorabilia, value, What Do You Think?

December 5, 2009 by kevinstilley

More comfortable home, more marketable house

According to our real estate agent it is the little changes/upgrades that one makes to a house that makes a difference in how fast a house sells and what purchase price is offered.

Fresh paint, shampooed carpets, window treatments, well placed shrubberies, modern faucets, … These are the kinds of things that one can do without great expense but can completely change the feel of a house. A nice homey ambiance can be more successfully created with a few candles and small affordable upgrades than with huge expensive mega-projects.

What advice do you have for those who want to make their home a little more special and want to do it on the cheap?

Filed Under: Blog, Front Page Tagged With: comfort, home

October 6, 2009 by kevinstilley

There Is No Place Like “Home”

Civilization built upon civilization.  Layers upon layers of the remains of people.  Why is it that throughout history people have continued to inhabit the same geographic spaces?  An earthquake destroys a city and the city is rebuilt.  A neighboring tribe tears down protective walls and burns the homes, and the walls and homes are reconstructed. Certainly some causality can be ascribed to the fact that cities tend to be built in locations conducive to survival — near water, strategically elevated, etc.  However, a large part of the answer has to do with the fact that “there is no place like home.”

I moved away from Northeastern Oklahoma twenty-five years ago.  But it is still home.  When I make the trip back to be with family and friends I can physically feel the tension release its hold on my body as I enter the familiar spaces of my childhood.  In the last year I lost my mother and oldest brother to death.  My father’s mental condition has deteriorated to the point that when I talk with him on the phone I am not sure that he knows who I am.  Even as I write these words the cherished possessions of my parents are being prepared for an estate sale and my childhood home is being sold.  The school from which I graduated has closed and the city of my youth has been all but wiped from the face of the earth due to a tornado and environmental  pollution.  My childhood friends have scattered to distant locations; Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, and beyond.  And yet, it is the place that I still think of as “home”.

Why? Why are people so inextricably tied to their place of birth?

The rabbis said that God gives grace to a place in the eyes of its inhabitants.  Consider the following story drawn from the Talmud;

A Sophist said to the Emperor Diocletian that no man could be happy except in the place of birth; the same is true, he said, of animals. To substantiate his words, he sent marked stags to Phrygia, and after a few years they returned.

Rabbi Simeon ben Kakish was studying on a porch in Tiberias and he heard two women passers-by say: “How happy we are to leave this accursed climate.”  Interested, he asked them whence they had come and whither they were going.  “We came from Mazega and we are returning,” they said.  Rabbi Simeon turned to his Disciples and remarked: “I was once in Mazega and found the climate there abominable.  Yet the natives are convinced it is the very best of places.  Blessed is God who giveth grace to a place in the eyes of its inhabitants.”

(Bereshit Rabbah, 34)

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Filed Under: Blog, Family, Front Page, Worldview Tagged With: Cardin, geography, home, miami, Oklahoma, Picher, Stilley

April 21, 2009 by kevinstilley

Family / Home Life – select quotes

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
~ Sir John Bowring

The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.
~ Dr. Oswald Smith

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
~ Jerry Seinfeld

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Filed Under: Blog, Quotes Tagged With: Family, hearth, home, quotations, Quotes

February 13, 2009 by kevinstilley

What Do You Think?

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

(Share your answers in the comments below.)

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, home, residence, travel, What Do You Think?

June 10, 2008 by kevinstilley

I’m a Hick

Kevin Clampett Country HickYes, I admit it I am a hick; a small-town country boy through and through. Today I was reminded of this when I read a passage from the book The Godward Gaze, by Steve McVey. I found myself in complete agreement with Jed Clampett as quoted by McVey.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, country, home, living, rural, small town, urban

June 9, 2008 by kevinstilley

If you build it, books will come…

Bookshelves“If you build it, he will come…” The line was made famous in the movie Field of Dreams. An Iowa farmer hears a whispered voice make the promise, so it makes perfect sense for him to build a baseball field where he should be growing corn so that long dead baseball players can come toss the ball around. It makes perfect sense. Hmmmm.

Perhaps the similar thinking of Edward L. Bernays is a little more reasonable. According to John Maxwell Hamilton in Casanova Was A Book Lover, [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, Books, bookshelves, decoration, design, home, marketing, Publishing, shelves

May 24, 2008 by kevinstilley

Doggy Doo-Do And Other Nasty Stuff

I have a friend who when frustrated likes to say, “Oh, doggy doo-doo!” (It makes me think of ol’ Grady Nutty who adopted the vernacular of Tarzan and would say “Um ga wa!”)

However, if you have ever owned dogs, you know that it isn’t doggy doo-doo that is the nastiest thing to clean up, it is doggy pee-pee. If you have this problem you might want to check out Quality Dog Resources to get their suggestions on the best dog urine removers.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: animals, Blog, cleaning, dogs, home, household hints, pets, urine

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