Posted in family on Sep 27th, 2011
Providing or preserving a heritage of holy living is often at the core of faith-filled parents striving to provide for their children.
The same goal is to be in view of those in other positions of spiritual influence such as church leaders, Christian grandparents, Christians aunts and uncles and on down the line.
I’m thankful for [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in family on Jun 3rd, 2011
I’ve been gone for a few days on a getaway with my family.
It was good, but it was also a lot of work.
I’m talking about camping in the Florida Keys and making many of the preparations for six adults.
Lori was very helpful, lightening the workload a bit and I am quite grateful for her [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in family on Feb 18th, 2011
Every time I read Mark 3:21, I imagine a pained look on Jesus’ face.
This is the place in the Gospels where His family is saying that Jesus has lost His mind and needs to be taken to back to the family compound.
The preceding verse describes how Jesus and His apostles are so caught up one [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in family on Jan 19th, 2011
It’s such a short fragment of a verse but it spoke loudly to me this morning.
“He blesses the home of the righteous” (Proverbs 3:33)
As soon as I read this, my mind zoomed through memories of times past when my heart was thrilled by God’s blessings upon my home. Times when I wrestled [...]
Read Full Post »
To hear this Morning Devotion, please click Some kind of dad, huh?
.
.
King Hezekiah gets a really lousy grade as a dad in my opinion.
Yes, he did some good things during his reign over Israel’s Southern Kingdom centuries after King David. But he threw all that good will away, in my book, when he said [...]
Read Full Post »