Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs

Through the weekly and daily devotionals you can be constantly encouraged in your great role of parenting, the highest career in the nation. You can also stay updated on what's happening with the Above Rubies ministry.

The vision for Meat for Men — UNCOMPROMISING MANHOOD blog is to encourage husbands, fathers and single men in Biblical manhood.

CAST THEM DOWN, O CHRIST...

SpurgeonA prayer for the church from Charles Spurgeon:
 
“We ask you to give victory to your church all over the world. Oh Mighty One, look down upon the heathen, and see how their gods stand riveted to their thrones. CAST THEM DOWN, O CHRIST! You who have cast out the dragon, cast down these inferior powers of darkness until not an idol god shall be left. Amen.”
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TURN IT INTO GLORY!

williambarclay"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to TURN IT INTO GLORY."
~ William Barclay
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WE ARE LOCKED IN BATTLE

FrancisSchaefferQuote"Make no mistake. We as Bible-believing Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman’s discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ. It is a conflict between two fundamentally opposed views of truth and reality."
 
~ Francis Schaeffer
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SHUCK OFF THE CHAINS THAT BIND

EdmundBurkeQuote“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites . . . Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power be placed somewhere . . . It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
 
~ Edmund Burke
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A WORD TO HUSBANDS:

WordToHusbandsTo keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
~ Ogden Nash
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FATHERS ARE NEEDED

FathersRNeeded“The raising of children is indeed the most important foundational stone in determining the destiny of any society or nation.
A nation is only as strong as its foundations are strong.”
 
~ Colin Campbell
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ARE YOU LIVING EACH DAY?

LivingEachDay

Let your new nature have it's way!

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BENEDICTIONS FROM HEAVEN

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“Children bring benedictions from heaven when they come, and while they stay they are perpetual benedictions.”
 
~ J. R. Miller (1840 – 1912).
 
 
Painting: “Walking with Dad” by Vickie Wade
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TELL HER SO

TellHerSoTELL HER SO
 
Amid the cares of married strife,
In spite of toil and business life,
If you value your dear wife—
Tell her so!
 
When days are dark and deeply blue,
She has her troubles, same as you,
Show her that your love is true—
Tell her so!
 
Don’t act as if she’s past her prime,
As tho’ to please her were a crime,
If ever you loved her, now’s the time—
Tell her so!
 
She’ll return for each caress,
A hundred-fold of tenderness,
Hearts like hers were made to bless—
Tell her so!
 
You are hers and hers alone,
Well you know she’s all your own,
Don’t wait to carve it on a stone—
Tell her so!
 
Never let her heart grow cold,
Richer beauties will unfold,
She is worth her weight in gold—
Tell her so!
 
~ Unknown
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UNDEFEATED MEN! LAUNCHING TODAY!

UndefeatedMenUNDEFEATED MEN is being launched by ARDEN ALLISON and CAL CALHOON. Here is their statement:
 
“We want to help men become physically, mentally, and spiritually fit. We want to inspire men to be honest, courageous, and committed. We want to continue to embrace life's difficulties while finding rest where we can. Our goal is to protect the weak while never relenting in our drive to do good. Just remember ~ A Good Man's Never Stuck!”
 
Today they are advertising their WHY PROTEIN, ESPECIALLY FORMATTED FOR MEN! It’s the best!
 
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FIGHT AGAINST SIN

B.Sunday“Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I'll butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.”
 
~ Billy Sunday
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REQUIREMENTS TO RULE...

HugoGrotiusquote"He knows not how to rule a kingdom, that cannot manage a province; nor can he wield a province, that cannot order a city; nor he order a city that knows not how to regulate a village. Nor he a village, that cannot guide a family; nor can that man govern well a family that knows not how to govern himself; neither can any govern himself unless reason be lord, will and appetite her vassal; nor can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and (wholly) obedient to him."
 
~ Hugo Grotius
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RELIGION OF TYRANNY

BFranklin“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them CANNOT BE ENSLAVED. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.”
 
~ Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father
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MEN MUST BE CONTROLLED...

WinthropQuote“Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.”
 
~ Robert Winthrop (18th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ).
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NEVER GIVE UP BIBLE PRINCIPLES

D.Websterjpg"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how suddenly a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
 
~ Daniel Webster (Served as the 14th and 19th U.S. Secretary of State).
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FREEDOM INSTEAD OF TYRANNY

J.Madison“We have staked the whole future of the American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
 
~James Madison (architect of our federal constitution and 4th president of USA).
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WHAT IS GOOD GOVERNMENT?

ThomasJefferson“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
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DON'T DESPISE GOD'S PRECEPTS

BibleReread“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
~ Noah Webster
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PATRIOTISM

B Rush“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The amor patriae (love of country) is both a moral and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations.”
 
~ Benjamin Rush
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EVERY MAN’S HOME IS HIS CASTLE

HMCastle“The great natural law of self-preservation cannot e repealed or superseded or suspended by any human institution. The right of the citizens to bear arms in the defense of themselves shall not be questioned. Every man’s house is deemed by the law to be his castle; and the law invests him with the power and places on him the duty of the COMMANDING OFFICER OF HIS HOUSE.
EVERY MAN’S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE, and if anyone be robbed on it, it shall be esteemed his own default and negligence.”
 
~ James Wilson, Founding Father and Signer of the Declaration of Independence and one of the first six judges on the Supreme Court. He also wrote the Preamble for the Constitution.
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