Josh Harris wisely encourages his church (apparently a new members class? This was at a Member’s Meeting, see Gunny’s comment below) on how they should interact with one another about the choices families make in their children’s education. HT: Justin…
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
Chesteron said (paraphrased) that the reason truth is stranger than fiction is because people make up fiction, but God is the author of truth. In a secular culture, because we are shaped more than we know by “fictional thinking” God’s…
Motherhood: A Tremendous Call
When I was in grade school a girl on my school bus pulverized me with her lunch box. If you’re my age or older, you remember lunch boxes from the 1970’s. They usually had some theme like the Brady Bunch…
Pornographic Sentimentalism
PORNOGRAPHIC SENTIMENTALISM Defined Pornographic Sentimentalism: A man-centered airbrushing of the past that creates a fiction that never existed in the first place – – such that people lust after what was, though in fact it wasn’t. Illustrated “Now the rabble that…
An Auspicious Day
Today our church celebrates 150 years as a church. We’re only having one service, which means that we’ll be packed. . . it’s going to be a wonderful time. So few churches make it to 150 years. And, far fewer…
Closer Than a Brother
BIBLICAL TRUTH “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24).” ILLUSTRATION Our son, Christopher, bumped heads with his brother, Benjamin.
Turn the Page
This post has nothing to do with the Bob Seger song with the same title. Rather, I put two new pages on my blog and rewrote the “about” post. One of the best parts of writing a book was praying…
You Need to Do This
If you’re not taking advantage of RSS feeds, and you read even one blog, and you do, because you’re reading this one, then you need to use Google Reader (or some other equivalent). Abraham Piper explains what you need to…