The Tulip Driven Life

  Counsel for Women/Wives/Mothers: 1.        First, remember your ultimate authority is God Himself, and that is mediated to you by the head of your household, which is to be your father while young/unmarried, but particularly your husband, whose name you take upon yourself. I Cor. 11:3, "But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God." 2.       Marriage is normative, and should be pursued. But do not marry an ungodly or foolish man. Marry in the Lord, so you are loved as Christ loves the Church, and are more eagerly able to submit to your husband as to the Lord. 3.       Husbands, as head in the home as Christ is head of the Church, are to lovingly rule over their family "in everything" by leading their families as ministers in their home, giving them God's Word, leading by godly example, being strong, protecting and providing, etc. (Eph...

    Counsel for Fathers, Part 1: 1.) As head of the home (of both wife and children) as Christ is head of the Church, husbands are to lovingly rule over their family "in everything" especially by leading their families as ministers in their homes, giving them God's Word, leading by godly example. (Eph. 5:22-6:4). 2.) Quality time with wife and kids is important, but cannot make up for lack of quantity altogether. You have to work, but what are you working for? Better to have quietness and godliness with poverty than feasting with enmity and strife -- or absenteeism (Prov. 17:1). Better to be a little hungry in the body than to be starved in the soul. So feed your family a feast of the True Bread from Heaven. If you are constantly away from your family for weeks or months at a time, your quality of time cannot make up for your lack of quantity/presence. The ache of your absence will be felt and remembered by your wife and children for the rest of their lives. 3.) We a...