The Puritans said the benefits of family worship are so great they are “impossible to describe.” In this series I’ll be attempting to highlight ten of its advantages.
The fourth benefit of homes gathering daily to read Scripture, sing and pray is that it captures a child’s most formative years.
Get them early
We are most impressionable in our youth. One Puritan wrote: “It is common sense to put the seal to the wax when it is soft.”
I thank the Lord for my godly upbringing. While in college I once did evangelistic work with a young man who was converted just a few years prior. He was in his mid-twenties and had great zeal for Christ. But as a new convert, he was not aware of some of the most basic Scriptures. Hymns I had learned as a child he didn’t know. Even some of the children we taught had surpassed him in some areas of theology. What an advantage I had.
I’m also thankful for the many Scriptures I was forced to memorized as a child—“forced” the operative word since I would rather have wasted my time on trivial matters. My parents and teachers did right in compelling me to commit hundreds of verses to memory. I grew up with the KJV and still can quote the majority of Scripture I know only in this version.
Four ways fathers fail their children
First, fathers create bitterness in their children when they ignore the child’s spiritual formation. We know Paul intentionally singles out fathers to teach their children (Eph. 6:4b) because he had previously mentioned both parents in vv. 1-2 and it was typically the responsibility of the father in the Greco-Roman and Jewish world to educate and discipline his children. Continue reading
Summary: Because all education is religious and incapable of being morally neutral, classical Christian education is the solution.
The family learns to focus
The reward of compound interest
John Paton was the great missionary to the cannibals of the South Seas.
Summary: it’s not enough to protect your time. You must protect your focus.
Sexual immorality is rampant all over the world. Our African village is no different. When those inside our church fall to this sin, we counsel them with a spirit of love by urging them to follow these ten “R’s”.
Summary: a list and explanation of fifty-two key passages every Christian should memorize
Summary: a lucid, concise and superbly researched historical account of the prosperity gospel—the best in print.
Summary: an interactive storyline designed to help the reader identify and clarify their worldview and its implications.
Among the chief proponents of foreign support for national pastors is KP Yohannan and his ministry Gospel for Asia (GFA). In his best-selling book Revolution in World Missions Yohannan writes: “The primary role for Westerners now should be to support efforts of indigenous missions works through financial aid…” (147). He bemoans the untold millions of dollars being wasted on Western missionaries and structures.
Jane Austin wrote that surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
As the car of American culture hurls off the cliff of biblical morality, it’s good to know there are still faithful men that can see through the fog of today’s sexual revolution.
What happened to the prayer meeting? First we changed the name to “mid-week service.” Now it’s gone altogether.
The reason biblical, clear-headed ministers of the gospel have so badly erred on the homosexual and transgender issues of today is because the world has increased the heat on the sexual revolution without the church realizing it has come to a boil.
Recently I spoke with a military chaplain who has a transgender soldier in his unit who identifies as a woman. The serviceman has gone through the hormonal and surgical procedures. Should the chaplain use the male or female name? What is the loving thing to do?
This is a book about the darkness of the human heart. And while the book explores the depravity of specific social evils like colonialism and the African slave trade, this is really a work about man’s soul—the heart of darkness.
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Some in African culture believe that barrenness is a curse and that procreation is the primary purpose of marriage. A barren marriage is a marriage that did not achieve its goal. Samuel Kunhiyop gives a practical example:
The thinking in some cultures is that because labor is difficult, having multiple wives (and thus more helping hands and more children) will help alleviate some of the work responsibility for one family.
Because infidelity is relatively common among married men who work far from home, John Mbiti suggests polygamy is the best solution.
Some argue that love thrives in polygamous unions just as it does in monogamous marriages.
The Bible is without error, transmitted perfectly with the exact message God gave to mankind.
As certain as the world is round, water is wet, and what goes up must come down—racism will exist in this sinful world. Unless one embraces one of several human utopias such as Marxism—which one theologian called an atheistic form of postmillennialism—there will be no complete eradication of the tangled roots of racial prejudice until Jesus comes back.