Vincent Rhodes

"Wives Respect Your Husbands" Ephesian 5:33 Just as you want the man in your life to love you unconditionally (to be drunk in love with you) even when you're not particularly lovable, your man needs you to demonstrate your respect for him regardless of whether he's meeting your expectations  at the moment. We've  become such a love dominated culture, (like the song Beyoncé sung: "Drunk In Love") it has caused us to think that love should be free, but respect should be earned. Instead, what men need is to be respected unconditionally.  Not respect that they have to earn, but respect that flows freely (like wine) from the heart of his wife.  Respect for who they are ( as your husband) apart from what they do. Noticed that one of the main biblical passages on marriage-in Ephesians 5-never tells the wife to love her husband, and it never tells a husband to respect his wife (because men and women are wired differently). Instead, over and over, it urges...

Bridges and not walls. Acts 11:9 Acts 11:9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God has cleansed, that call not you common. It is said that there are over 25,000,000 illegal immigrants within the boarders of United States.  According to the department of immigration, they got in because there is a breach in the wall and fences that separates Mexico and the United States. It is said, at night, people from Mexico come over to the United States without applying for citizenship.  One of the front runners for the Republican Party has taken issue with this and has pledged that, if he is elected president, he will build a huge wall, separating the United States from Mexico. Now, that's politics...  Who knows???  Maybe he would build a wall.  And maybe, such a wall might be good for the economy.  I don't know. I'm going to leave that alone and let them work that out... But when it comes to the church, God has given us a mandate to build bri...