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    Moments Together for a Peaceful Home
    Moments Together for a Peaceful Home
    Moments Together for a Peaceful Home
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    Moments Together for a Peaceful Home

    By Dennis Rainey and Barbara Rainey

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    This book is one in a set of small gift hardcover books that present thirty days of devotionals for married couples to read together. The selections in Moments Together for a Peaceful Home will focus on the many ways that husbands and wives can maintain peace and harmony at home--both in their relationship with one another and as parents of the children God has entrusted to their care. Married couples will learn practical ways to help family members live together united by the honoring actions of love, acceptance, and forgiveness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateApr 15, 2013
    ISBN9781441266774
    Moments Together for a Peaceful Home
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    Dennis Rainey

    Dennis Rainey is the executive director and co-founder of FamilyLife and co-hosts the radio program, FamilyLife Today. He is senior editor of the HomeBuilders Couples Series, which has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide, and author ofParenting Today's Adolescent and The Tribute.

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      Moments Together for a Peaceful Home - Dennis Rainey

      HOME

      ANSWERING JESUS’ PRAYER

      I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one.

      JOHN 17 : 20 - 21

      As I reflect on the teachings of Christ, I find that much of His instruction dealt with maintaining peace and harmony in relationships. He taught His disciples to break down barriers in relationships. He taught them to forgive each other. Love was the banner of His earthly ministry.

      The Scripture passage above is part of the Savior’s high-priestly prayer, prayed near the end of His life. Why did He focus on unity and oneness at this crucial point? Could it be that it was because the strongest demonstration of the Holy Spirit’s power in our lives is imperfect Christians living with one another?

      But it isn’t always easy, is it? When you and your mate—or you and your children—have a conflict with each other, you probably tend to withdraw from intimacy. Then you begin to believe the worst about the other person, and eventually you lash out in anger or bitterly withdraw, allowing the anger to fester.

      Communication is vital to maintaining unity. You may have to reinvent your own pony express to stay close, even if it has to run through hostile territory. Maybe you’ll have one meal a day when your family sits down and eats together, with the phone off the hook and the television off. Possibly you’ll pray with your mate and with each of your children at the end of the day. Or maybe you’ll take a walk and talk with a troubled teen who just needs you to be there.

      The main thing is to take responsibility for doing your part to see that Jesus’ prayer—that you may be one—doesn’t go unanswered in your family.

      Discuss: In your family, how does disharmony typically start? Does fostering family harmony always mean settling kids’ differences for them?

      Pray: Pray that Christ’s prayer for unity will be realized among your family members by their coming together in love, acceptance and forgiveness.

      TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR DOING YOUR PART TO SEE THAT JESUS’ PRAYER—THAT YOU MAY BE ONE—DOESN’T GO UNANSWERED.

      OF FIRST IMPORTANCE

      For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

      1 CORINTHIANS 15 : 3 - 4 (NIV)

      The Bible is a collection of many books and has many truths to teach us. We are blessed that in this passage the apostle Paul singles out its core truth. Of course nothing in Scripture is unimportant, but nothing else is of first importance like the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

      What do all of us—children, teens and adults—need to know to make the significance of Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection real in our lives? First, we need to know who God is and how He loves us. We need to know what sets Him apart from

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