Discussions in the early church regarding the doctrine of the Trinity, the relationship of the deity and humanity of Christ, the doctrine of predestination, and the consequences of Adam’s sin are widely-known and well documented. The church fathers did not, however, neglect the institution of marriage or ignore its place in the life of [...]
Early one morning at the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, the embryologist has already begun a day of transfers. She carefully withdraws tiny plastic straws from liquid nitrogen tanks and dips the tubes into a controlled-temperature bath. She checks and rechecks names and numbers.
After taking the straws to the microscope’s stage, she snips [...]
When our four sons grew to be young men, we assumed that the worship-training chapter of our life had ended. But God has wonderful surprises. Our youngest son was twelve when we adopted our daughter, who was just a couple of months old. So our experience with young children in the pew continued a [...]
Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Your Kids. By Kara E. Powell and Chap Clark. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011, 224 pp. $14.99. Paperback.
Why are college students so prone to walking away from, or completely rejecting, the [...]
God-centered worship is supremely important in the life of our church. We approach the Sunday morning worship hour with great seriousness and earnestness and expectancy. We try to banish all that is flippant or trivial or chatty.
Not all services are this way. Sunday morning is the Mount of Transfiguration—the awesome place of glory and [...]
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As all societies, civil and religious, originate from families; so families derive from that first and most important of all social connections, the conjugal relation.— Samuel Stennett (1)
Baptist memory of the Reformation is somewhat myopic, being usually restricted to the Protestant rediscovery of the way [...]
You know the guy I’m talking about. He spends hours into the night playing video games and surfing for pornography. He fears he’s a loser. And he has no idea just how much of a loser he is. For some time now, studies have shown us that porn and gaming can become compulsive and [...]
I was recently honored to spend an hour talking with Rob Rienow. Rob married Amy in 1994 and they have been blessed with six children. His most important ministry is loving his wife and leading his children to know God.
ANDREW: What was the driving motivation to found Visionary Fam- ily Ministries?
ROB: Well, it started [...]
You Lost Me: Why Young Christians are Leaving Church…and Rethinking Faith. By David Kinnaman. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2011, 256 pp. $17.99.
In 2007, David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons co-authored the groundbreaking book unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity…and Why it [...]
When my husband and I teach our children, we adjust our approach as necessary based on their different ages, genders, temperaments, and personalities. The message of Christ remains the same, but the strategies we employ are occasionally different as we consider God’s unique design in each of them. As we seek to train them [...]
Douglas Wilson, Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012. 272 pp. $15.99. The concern for functional fathers is as old as history itself. Yet every new generation must address rampant delinquency in the home. Douglas Wilson’s book Father Hunger includes an innovative perspective on the decline [...]
