“The environment of your home should be full of grace. When you have a home filled with grace, it is not without standards. You are not introducing moral anarchy. Grace is not an amorphous, gelatinous mass. Grace has a backbone. However, when the standards are broken, the heaviest sacrifices in the work of restoration are made by the guardians of grace, not by enforcers of the law, finger-pointers, parental accusers, or people who correct in a nasal tone of self-pity”
Necessary Song
“If there is not a song in it, it is not a biblical sacrifice. Without a song, it is a poor-me, look-at-the-martyr-go sacrifice, and those kinds of sacrifices have a very poor return”
Like a Float for the Tournament of Roses
Introduction: One of the men in that Founders trailer said something like this. “If we can take a clear passage that says ‘I do not permit a woman to teach” and turn it into something like ‘I ...
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Southern Baptist Letters
A warm Tuesday greeting to all of you Blogtonians. One of the things we have learned lately is that many people are interested in what is happening in the Southern Baptist Convention. Not only so, but they write letters about it.
Thanks at the Foundation
“When he took the loaf of bread that represented His own broken body, He picked it up and gave thanks . . . It is a thanksgiving meal, not only because we thank God for what Jesus did for us, but also because He thanked God when He instituted it . . . God is …
The Full Ascol
Introduction: The title of this post was almost “As White as a Woke Southern Baptist.” That would have reflected a proverb that might be circulating throughout the tribe of Judah even now. And if we didn’t do something, and fast, it would not be long before the proverb would have to be changed to “as …
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Imitate High
“Parents, you are not able to save your children. You cannot just press a button or make a decision and be the ground of your children’s salvation. You obviously cannot be their saving grace, but you are commanded to imitate that saving grace and to facilitate it and have it permeate the atmosphere of your …
How I Feel Too
The Imitation Key
“Imitation is absolutely crucial for childrearing. You do not want your children imitating you unless you are imitating God. If you are not imitating and pursuing God, sincerely and openly beholding His face in worship weekly, being transformed from one degree of glory to another, then the last thing you should want is for your …
Intervening Kindness
“Parents can give their children something that their own parents did not give them, because our God breaks cycles of sin” (Why Children Matter, p. 5).