In the last year or two there has been a rise of videos circulating of angry parents at school board meetings. These are of course government, or public, school board meetings. I first remember seeing videos, or at least a lot of angry tweets, a little over a year ago of parents upset that their […]
Children
On Building a Library
The year of our Lord twenty-twenty was a great year, and a great year for reading books. I went on quite a few adventures while journeying through many different pages. These were pages that I physically turned with my hand, as the pages ahead of me visibly began to turn into pages behind me. The […]
How God’s Children Are Born: John 1:13
13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:13 Introduction As we narrow in on verse 13 this afternoon, I want us to consider how God’s children are born. Now, on the one hand it is a bit of a spiritual […]
Training Our Children to Worship God with God’s People
In family-integrated, or as I like to say, age-integrated churches, we believe that it is the normal pattern and precedent of the Bible to include all ages in the corporate worship of God. The New Testament letters assume that all ages, including children, are present in the assembly. The New Testament letters were meant to […]
Children of the Devil and Children of God: Commentary on 1 John 3:4-10
Last week as we were in the first three verses of chapter 3, I briefly mentioned the fact that not all people are God’s children; as the text of course talked about how Christians are God’s children. This week as we move in to verse 4-10 we see this contrast made clear between […]