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Biblical Wisdom for Parenting: How to Exasperate Your Children (Paul Schlehlein)
Parenting requires discipline. Children need boundaries, correction, instruction, and authority. Scripture does not call parents to be their children’s friends at the expense of being parents. Yet the same text (Ephesians 6:1–4) that commands parents to discipline and...
The Grace of God: Three Reasons Grace is Amazing
John Newton, author of “Amazing Grace,” knew something about grace. Born in England in 1725, he worked as a young man in the transatlantic slave trade and became the captain of a slave ship. During a violent storm, believing that the ship was about to sink, he cried...
Biblical Wisdom for Parenting: A Theological Foundation
Parenting is not easy. Every generation faces its own pressures, and Christian parents today are raising children in a culture that often has very different ideas about marriage, family, authority, education, and morality. It can leave parents frustrated and...
The Weight that Changes Everything: Discovering God’s Glory in Creation, Christ, and You
Imagine a bowl piled high with grains of sugar or salt. Now imagine that every single grain represents some aspect of God’s glory. There are more grains in that bowl than could ever be counted, and yet all we need is one grain on our tongue to begin to savour...
One Dwelling: God Among His People
Why build a house at all? Surely not merely to admire its architecture, and not merely as a shelter for people to gather in occasionally. A house is built to be lived in. This is the climax of Paul’s picture in Ephesians 2, and it arrives in v. 22: “In him you also...
The Omniscience of God: The Good News of an All-Knowing God for the Humble, Anxious, and Lonely
As we continue our consideration of God’s attributes, we turn to his omniscience. It may be a technical-sounding word, but it simply means that God is all-knowing. You will not find the word “omniscience” in the Bible, but the idea is thoroughly biblical: God knows...
One Temple: Trusting the Builder
God’s family is one foundation, but a foundation is only the beginning. God is not simply laying groundwork; he is placing stones on top of it and joining them together—and the stones are not identical. They are different shapes, different textures, drawn from...
God Is Good, All the Time: Why Our Understanding of Goodness Needs a Second Look
I am not a big fan of the social ritual that is common in the way we often greet one another. Think about it: We greet someone, and then we ask how they’re doing. More often than not, the question is little more than a formality. The cashier doesn’t really want to...
One Foundation: Built on Christ Alone
A family must have somewhere to stand. It is true that, through the gospel, former strangers have been made into one household, but every household is, sooner or later, also a house, and every house needs a foundation. Paul writes in Ephesians 2:20 that the church is...