REMNANT Magazine

Articles: 39

Family

Teaching on love, faithfulness, and life together within the Christian family.

WomanAutumn 2023

An Ordered Life

The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of God’s peace shines out of…

by Sheryl Zeiset Lebanon, PA↗
FamilyFall 2020

To Marry or Not to Marry?

That is the question many young folks seem to be asking today. In this article we are going to take a look at this question from a historical, cultural, and biblical perspective. There are many reasons to marry or to not…

Donald Brechbill Chambersburg, PA↗
WomanFall 2020

Stay at Home

Stay at home, our government has been saying to us recently in light of the Coronavirus pandemic. Long before this, though, another Government—a higher Government—told us ladies to “stay at home.” Not in order to prevent…

Elizabeth Rust Lititz, PA↗
Home historiesFall 2019

Featured Board Member—Joe & Liz Tindall

Joe and Liz Tindall, along with three of their daughters, have been a part of Faith Christian Fellowship for the last eight years. Brother Joe has been a faithful brother in the church and has served as a member of the…

FamilySpring 2019

The Mystery of Marriage

Many of us, in our youth, have fantasized about the ideal marriage. We have envisioned being married to someone who loves us unconditionally and who cheerfully accommodates our every peculiarity. In Ephesians 5:22-33 we…

Donald Brechbill Chambersburg, PA↗
Christian LivingSpring 2019

One Christian’s Response

I am Ted. I was born a male and I know I am a male. My skin color is white, and I know I am white. My parents are white, my grandparents were white, and I have no reason to suspect my other ancestors were anything other…

Ted Bierdeman Three Rivers, MI↗
WomanSummer 2018

Inspirations in Cooking

Thou preparest a table before me... Psalm 23:5 O taste and see that the Lord is good... Psalm 34:8 Eating is such a basic thing. God made food and created us with a need to eat. Like my husband says, God could have made…

Naomi Hostetler Coshocton, OH↗
WomanJuly/August 2013

Meditations on the Book of Esther for the God-fearing Woman

That they may teach the young women ... Part 1 Vashti—the foolish plucketh down her house with her hands. And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but…

Roline van der Merwe↗
WomanJanuary/February 2013

At Home with Usefulness

Greetings in Jesus precious name! Truly we have a Great God who is worthy of all our praise and even our whole lives. Because of His love and mercy to us, we are bound to thank God always! And yet my prayer is that our…

Leora Schmucker↗
WomanNovember/December 2012

The King’s Heart

The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. Proverbs 21:1 Dear sister, Whether you are a daughter or a wife, this verse is for you! Even if you are a daughter…

Marcia Zimmerman↗
FamilyJuly/August 2012

Why We Don’t Want Children

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that…

Michael Fisher - Bedford, PA↗
WomanMarch/April 2012

A Mother’s Heart Cry

That they may teach the young women ... I look and behold a terrible thing in our generation ... The people are being destroyed for lack of knowledge. Where once they gave attendance to reading Scripture and “meaty”…

Marcia Zimmerman↗
PoetryJanuary/February 2012

Prayer of a Hidden Woman

Lord, I would be a helper meet For this dear man I love, The one I reverence and respect, As to my Lord above; The one I prize and I esteem, Admire exceedingly; The one to whom I will submit, Adapt to joyfully; The one…

Amy Smoker↗
WomanJanuary/February 2012

Common Women like You and Me

That they may teach the young women ... If God would add another part to the Bible, could it be that your name would be in it? How special do you need to be to get mentioned in the Bible? Are you a grandmother that…

With much love, Geraldine Kouwen↗
WomanNovember/December 2011

Cultivating a Heart for the Home

Dear single sisters: As an older single lady, it has been on my heart for some time to write to encourage you in cultivating a heart for your home. I have been blessed to be a stay-at-home daughter for almost thirty…

By Sarah Miller↗
WomanSeptember/October 2011

Marriage Is Like a Garden

Let me take you back 33 years ago when a young man and a young lady were courting. They lived about 600 miles apart and most of their courting was done by letter. One day, after about a year of courtship, mostly by mail,…

Rachel Weaver↗
FamilySeptember/October 2011

The Reasons Why ...

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes; I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. Ps. 101:3 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it:…

By Daniel Mena↗
WomanMarch/April 2011

Won by Conduct

That they may teach the young women ... In this issue’s Sisters’ Corner, we break from our usual custom of having an article by a sister, and turn to George Muller for a powerful testimony of meek service. After all,…

George Muller↗
Book reviewsMarch/April 2011

Kingdom-Focused Finances for the Family

Like a fresh shower on a hot summer day, Kingdom-Focused Finances for the Family by Gary Miller spilled its cool drops of water into my heart. It is not that the teaching was radically new to me. God had personally been…

A book review by Mike Atnip↗
FamilyMarch/April 2011

The Christian Response to Caring for the Elderly

Unwanted parents long for the grave Even though I should not complain, but rather thank God, for all my worthy children, I will still try to awaken you to more carefulness, humility, virtue, honor, and obedience, so that…

Peter Jansz Twisck (1565-1636)↗
WomanJuly/August/September 2009

The Heart of the Matter

I have been thinking a lot about the verse, “And yet I show unto you a more excellent way.” (1 Co. 12:31) What is this way? It is the way of perfect love. We knew that all the time, didn’t we? But what does Paul really…

Rachel Weaver↗
Spiritual exerciseJuly/August/September 2008

A Singing Heart

“I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.” Psalm 104:33 Here are some true examples of what a song can do. I was in the middle of the airport, but there it was—the…

by Rachel Weaver↗
FamilyJuly/August/September 2008

Divorce and also Remarriage in the Early Church

After the death of the apostles, Christianity continued to grow and flourish, even though it was beset by poverty and persecution. When we read the writings of the early Church, we enter a world that is in some ways very…

by Dean Taylor↗
ParentingJuly/August/September 2008

Monsters of Cruelty

Now that I am a father, and know the affection of a parent—would I not defend from every danger—would I not bestow every truly good thing—would I not implore every blessing—on my tender children? Would I not nourish…

by James Meikle (1730-1799)↗

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