How to Raise a Pagan Kid in a Christian Home
Every normal family wants their children to turn out right. So, we establish goals for character development and try to create an environment where our kids can mature. Church, school, sports teams, family relationships — each of these provides a context where our kids can learn to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 19:19). Unfortunately, […]
How to Motivate Your Child to Use Pornography
No parent wants their child to become involved in pornography. The problem for many of us is we do not understand the insidious allurement of pornography and how our behavior, though unintentional, can help shape a child to crave something which can lead him into a lifetime of slavery. There are always unintended consequences to […]
How to Make a Big Difference
Many people are frustrated by the drug use, theft, and violence in our culture. Others lament the high rates of divorce and suicide. Almost everyone talks about the rude behavior that has come to be the rule rather than the exception. “I wish I could do something to change all this,” comes the response. And […]
How to Live Our Lives in This World
Throughout our time on this earth, we run into countless trials and tribulations. At times, it seems like the only way to silence all the problems we have is just to give into them. That maybe if we just give in then everything will just slow down and all our problems will disappear. We all […]
Living to a Higher Standard
Several years ago, New York’s governor, Eliot Spitzer, resigned after it was learned that he paid a prostitute for sex. When new governor David Paterson was sworn-in, he admitted that he had cheated on his wife in earlier years. In a press conference, Paterson said, “I think we have a marriage like many Americans, maybe […]
How to Have a Happy Life — Financially
May marked the end of the journey of education for many high school and college students. I started thinking about what fatherly advice I could pass along to those within the reach of this bulletin, so here is my best shot. If you are not careful, you will spend your life pursuing goals that you […]
How Suffering Helps Us
How many of us really enjoy suffering? I’m willing to bet none of us do, but today I want to talk about how suffering can really help us. We see in Ecclesiastes 7:2-3 that it is better to mourn than to feast and in Matthew 5:4, Christ says, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they […]
How Shall the Young Secure Their Hearts?
As summer comes to a close and young people prepare to either go back to school or away to college, it is a good time to re-emphasize the need for them to stay morally pure and to remember God in their youth (Ecclesiastes 12:1). Many seemingly strong, spiritually upright young people who suddenly find themselves […]
How Parents Push Their Children Away From God
Why are young people leaving the Lord? The rate at which young people are falling away is alarming. Everyone has experienced a young person casting away their faith, either directly or indirectly. It’s devastating. The most important social influence in shaping young people’s religious lives is the religious life modeled and taught to them by […]
How Long Has It Been?
Believe me, I don’t ask any of these questions from moral high ground. I need just as many reminders (3 Peter 3:1) and provocations (Hebrews 10:24) as the person who listens to me on Sunday. These questions help me, and I hope they help you, to sharpen our focus on what really matters: serving God […]