What do you want to be when you grow up?”
How many times has that question been asked to kids?  The answers you get are often comical.  But when you ask that question to parents about their children, it comes with a little more seriousness.  Of course many parents might get excited about the thought of their [...]

If the LORD is Sovereign (that is, if He is in absolute, complete control over and in everything), which the Bible makes clear that He is, then we should not merely believe it, but delight in it (Him).  For if we see something as true, but not sweet, then we will never truly worship God for [...]

My dad wasn’t perfect.  If he was writing this post, he would tell you that.  Today as I consider his mistakes, they don’t frustrate me as much as they give me hope.  Despite his failings, God used my father to pass the legacy of faith from his generation to my own.  He did this through [...]

A few years ago I was having a phone conversation with a good friend.  The purpose of his call was to invite me to a guys gathering at his house that night.  My wife already had plans with some of her girlfriends, so I was unable to hang with the boys.  I’ll never forget my [...]

In writing about the duty of the Church to evangelize and work towards its own growth, Dr. Robert L. Reymond, in his masterful Theological work, A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (pg. 881), says,
“… when the church contemplates its growth, either quantitatively or qualitatively, it cannot afford to ignore its responsibility to its own [...]

I have two boys, both sinners.  My older son is 16 months old, which is the age where I am starting to see more and more why I have no power to save his soul.
My boy, like his mother, is sweet and spicy.  There are times he can be super sweet as he gently kisses [...]

Sunday, November 30 will mark the beginning of the 2008 Advent season. According to Wikipedia, Advent is “the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus, in other words, the period immediately before Christmas”.
In order to prepare myself to lead my family to exalt Christ during this season, I [...]

I love this book, the Jesus Storybook Bible. You know why I love it? It is because in every Bible story the hero is always Jesus; the Rescuer that would come, the Rescuer that has come.
I don’t know how many times the boys and I have sat down to read these same stories [...]

Must one have an overflowing bank account, a lucrative business with steady flow of monetary income, an ever-climbing investment portfolio, and pounds and pounds of gold, silver, and precious jewels in a vault in order to be rich?
I don’t think so. Oh that we would judge wealth by the Lord’s standards. Let me tell you why I [...]

John Piper sits down with Mark Driscoll @ theResurgence to talk about his life: Growing up as the son of an evangelist, the godly relationship of his parents, a very real look at his marriage, and the adoption of his daughter.