“You cannot teach children to have respect for other cultures by inculcating in them a contempt for their own. A son who honors his own mother deeply is going to understand why another honorable son wants to honor his mother. That makes good sense to him.”
Happening Almost Never
“Answered prayer should not be like a blue comet.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 93
Letters That Fill the Space Allotted for Letters Quite Admirably
https://twitter.com/douglaswils/status/1944942398150468005 Letter to the Editor: Excellent analysis. This whole episode feels like a kick in the balls—probably even to ...
Not the Same Thing at All
“A Christian nation should never be mistaken as being the same thing as a chosen nation. There is no exceptionalism in it.”
And at a Livable Temp
“Fathers, your highest parental priority is to manage and maintain a climate of true fellowship in your home. You’re in charge of the thermostat. Too often, dads are just the thermometer, thinking to themselves, ‘It sure is hot in here.’ But fathers are called to control the temperature of their household.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. 88-89
The Epsteen, Epstyne, Epstain Affair
Introduction: So last week, the Trump DOJ announced that somehow or other they had decided to get a lot of Epsteinian egg on their collective face. Official observers were divided as to what ...
We Are No Different
The mark of the covenant in the Old Testament was a mark that most certainly included infants. Male babies were to be circumcised on the eighth day after birth, and this, no less than baptism was a sign and seal of regeneration—not that every circumcised child was regenerate, but rather this pointed to the reality …
Barnabas and Paul, and Then Silas
Acts of the Apostles (35): Sermon Video Introduction: The early church, no less than ours, was a church that was filled with personalities. Sometimes those personalities clashed. Sometimes ...
“Staggering” Doesn’t Begin to Describe It
“When Jesus assumed human nature, He did so first as a single cell. The eternal Word of the eternal Father, the who spoke the heavens and earth into existence, took on a body that was the size of the period at the end of this sentence.”
Photo Negative
“Too many Christian parents, because they’ve got their shoes laced way too tight and because they want to be good, conservative, Bible-believing, Reformed types, give their kids a garden of no with the occasional, intermittent, and very reluctant ‘Yeah, okay, I guess so this time. Don’t let it go to your head.’ That is not how God is. And since we are supposed to imitate our Father in heaven, we are supposed to be openhanded.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 87