"Husbands, likewise dwell with them with understanding..." - 1 Peter 3:7 (NKJV)"Dwell with them with understanding" means more than just an attitude—it's dwelling with full knowledge. The phrase "dwell with" combines two Greek words meaning "together" and "home." God is saying both of you are homemakers, transforming two individual lives into one unified home. Men, you're called to truly know her....

"He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord." - Proverbs 18:22 (NKJV)Men, your wife is a gift from God to you. She is a blessing from the Lord. Men help themselves out when they treat their wives well. Ephesians 5:28 tells us, "So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself." When you love your wife the way God wants,...

Matthew 5:12 - "Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."Jesus says, "Rejoice and be exceedingly glad." That may not make sense to us. How in the world are we supposed to rejoice when we're being persecuted? Let me tell you why.First, rejoice because you have the opportunity to show the sincerity of your faith. Do...

Matthew 5:44 - "But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you."Now this is where Jesus gets really radical. He doesn't just tell us to endure persecution - He tells us how to respond to our persecutors. Love them. Bless them. Do good to them. Pray for them.Stephen modeled this perfectly in ...

John 3:19-20 - "And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed."Jesus says, "You are the light of the world" (see Matthew 5:14). You might say, "I thought Jesus was the Light of the world." He i...