How to have a peaceful home
How to Have a Peaceful Home by Amy Hatfield for the women of the CBC Cooking Class I. Understanding You: A peaceful home starts with your relationship of peace with God. A. God’s plan for families 1. Families were created by God Genesis 1:27-28 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” “In the home on earth,...
Read MoreTwelve “Thou Shalt Nots” for Parents
1. Belittle your child 2. Use threats 3. Bribe your child 4. Extract promises of better conduct from your child 5. Use overprotective supervision 6. talk excessively to your child (when rebuking) 7. Insist on blind obedience 8. Pamper and overindulge your child 9. Use inconsistent rules and limits. 10. Use rules which are inappropriate to the child’s age. 11. Use moralizing and quiet-inducing methods. 12. Give any command you do not intend to enforce. Taken from Pastor Holub, Fellowship Baptist Church
Read MoreGood thoughts on the OT in the New
See this series of articles from Expository Thoughts:  The Relationship of the Testaments :An Introduction The Relationship of the Testaments: Christological Hermeneutic The Relationship of the Testaments: Apostolic Hermeneutic The NT view of the Old Testament The Priority of the Old Testament Common mistakes in Preaching Walt Kaiser on 1 Peter 1:10-12 Paul’s Use of Hosea in Romans...
Read MoreGlorifying God in the midst of uncertainty with His grace
Expectations and reality – often we get the two hopelessly jumbled together because of the desires we have. Sometimes we need to get back to the basics and work from there. What is our goal as a church? Make disciples. How do we do that? Show how big God is to the people we know. How do we do that? Les Heinze observes from Ezra 3 a good example of looking to the future.            In Ezra 3, he sees the children of Israel do three things. First, they rebuilt the sacrificial altar in front of their watching enemies. This...
Read MoreTwo great sermons
Two great sermons you need to listen to when you have the time from the latest Desiring God conference: Voddie Baucham’s sermon on the Supremacy of Christ and Truth in the Postmodern Age Tim Keller’s sermon on the Supremacy of Christ and the Gospel in the Postmodern Age They’re about an hour each. Find the notes here. Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
Read MoreChallenges to Faith
God always challenges us to believe Him and do what He calls us to do. God wants to accomplish God-sized tasks in and through us. He wants to do more than we can ask or imagine. He also wants to show how great He is. This happened to Moses in Exodus 4. God is calling Moses to be God’s spokesperson in freeing the Israelites from Egypt. He wants to deliver them because no one else can and because He wants them to see who He is – the covenant-keeping, powerful God who is able to deliver them. Moses, however, is like us. He wonders if God is really able to do this. He wonders if the...
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