Dear beloved Eastside, Over the past few weeks you have given much of your time, mind, strength, and resources to host the single largest gathering we’ve ever had at 204 Eastland Drive North. My greatest fear is that I might miss saying “thank you” to someone. I want to be brief but specific. Thank you…
Family
Living in a Biblically Illiterate American Church
“This really is our problem, and it is up to this generation of Christians to reverse course. Recovery starts at home. Parents are to be the first and most important educators of their own children, diligently teaching them the Word of God. [See Deuteronomy 6:4-9.] Parents cannot franchise their responsibility to the congregation, no matter…
I’ll Miss that Three Minute Conversation
Disclaimer: I realize that when speaking about someone who has died there is a tendency to speak with a more grandiose tone than real reality and a tendency to overlook a flaw to exaggerate an endearing attribute. Read this short Father’s Day tribute with that filter. My dad was never known as a man filled…
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Renee has one of these freakish cats that have no hair. It’s a long story of how I told her we would never have one of those cats because they cost money and how I told her many times, “I’m not paying money for a cat.” Short back story: She found a loop-hole in what…
The View From Here
This day in history…
The Great Undoing
I am preparing a year-long book review of a “A Theology of the Family” edited by Jeff Pollard and Scott T. Brown. This is a collection of “five centuries of Biblical wisdom for family life.” There has been a progressive undoing of the home, the church and the nation. Many talk about it, statistics show…
Happy Birthday, from the “City of Paul”
The city of Paul wishes you a Happy Birthday, Renee!!!
The Origin and Purpose of the Family
God Crated the family as the basis of human society and civilization. It’s purposes are: to reflect God’s glory (Genesis 1:26) to enable man to multiply and control the earth (Genesis 1:27-28) to supply the companionship essential to human well being (Genesis 2:18-25) This ancient story reveals that the family is important in all the…
The Husband and Wife Relationship
It is God’s plan that a husband (male) has authority over his wife (female) just as Christ has authority over the church, and that a husband loves his wife just as Christ loved the church and gave His life of her. Because God has ordered it this way, the husband’s authority does not nullify the…
The Key to Family Living
Though “it is not good for man to live alone” (Gen.2:18), the togetherness of the family is not an easy or automatic achievement. All of us are sinners whose natural tendency is toward a self-centeredness which isolates us from each other. The remedy for this is for family members to number themselves below one another,…