I really liked this article by David Sunday, Embracing the Biblical Tension Between Family and Church Ministry. The author clearly stated the complimentary roles of church and family as well as nuanced the tensions that are there. Here are a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
It matters where you put your energy, and modern churches expend enormous energy trying to make Sunday schools and youth programs work. Here are two thoughts about this. First, a proposition to ponder: the practice of comprehensive age segregation...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Yessir, this is a topic I know a little about. It was more than a decade ago that I was teetering on this precipice myself. Janet and I had decided to take our two young daughters and go participate in a family-integrated church plant. Mostly...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In counseling with people over the years and through wrong decisions in my own life, I have observed that we often do not do the right thing because we have presumed on the future. We project the consequences of obedience, by thinking we know the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
To have more time available for prayer and reading is most delightful to a spiritual soul, yet the faithful discharge of business or domestic responsibilities is more profitable to others and more pleasing to God, if He has so appointed them. The...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Here is an excellent essay over at The Gospel Coalition explaining the tragic results of what has happened as we tried to minister to youth. Here are a few of the sound bites: - “we segregated youth from the rest of the congregation” -...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In Genesis 35:2-4, we see a father (Jacob) appealing to his children to abandon their idols, change their garments, and make a new start. We see a how God gives us a new day, to identify our idols and sins and begin afresh. And Jacob said to his...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We know the message of the gospel is central, but what about the way we preach the gospel, does that matter? For example, if the Bible gave specific instructions for how the gospel should be preached, would that matter? If the Bible specified who...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God is kind to give us a foretaste of His eternal rest through the weekly sabbath rest. Gracious word of a gracious Savior, on which the soul may confidingly repose, and be at peace forever! It is a present rest—the rest of grace as well as...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
