Yesterday, when I was getting ready for the day, I noticed a spot on my sweater. The stain wasn’t real bad. There wasn’t actual food debris. Rather my sweater was discolored in an area about the size of a nickel.…
Do You Agree With These Three Statements About Loving Our Children?
There is nothing we do more urgent than equipping parents to love their children. Parents of young children are invited to a new Life Group at the Red Brick Church in Stillman Valley. The group will meet at 10:30 on…
Answering a Little Girl’s Questions
An eight year old in our church had some questions for me in an email. She asks better questions than many adults. So you all might be interested in her questions and my answers. The picture to the right is…
The Best Good News: A Christmas Eve Football Story
“Vanbriesen pops through the left side of the AC line and he’s loose in the secondary. It’s a footrace for the end zone.” For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given . . . Isaiah…
Kevin DeYoung: The Scandal of the Semi-Church
Kevin DeYoung encourages those who are “semi” committed to church. I want to talk about church members who attend their home church with great irregularity. These aren’t unchurched folks, or de-churched, or under-churched. They are semi-churched. . . Read the…
Baby Dedication & Family Devotions Method Suggestions
Families need to be spend time in God’s Word together. I shared this letter – – including the picture to the right – – with our young parents on Baby Dedication Day. If you enlarge the picture, you will be…
On the Necessity of Worship
David Foster Wallace was an award winning author. He died in 2008 at the age of 46, apparently of suicide. Here is an excerpt of a speech given to the Kenyon College graduating class. Tim Keller interacts with this speech…
Specific Family Prayers Provide Particular Encouragement
Family prayer journals can be used to encourage those for whom we are praying in special ways. Click on the pictures and enlarge them to see how we prayed and what we wrote down. My children write like their father.…
Thinking About State Championships and the Thrill of Victory
Which theory better explains the thrill of victory: materialism or Christianity? Can any of you do a better job with a materialist explanation of the thrill of victory than I did? Why do you think winning is so much fun?…
A Sermon for Churches Moving Forward
I have been immersed in the book of Haggai today – – and decided to take a break by listening to someone else preach a sermon on Haggai. I “stumbled” across this sermon by John Piper which, as it turns…