Archives for August 2014

Roger Salter writes:

“Ecclesiology is perhaps the weakest point in most Christian theologies, academic and personal, and the majority of evangelicals today probably disparage too much attention being given to the Church as an entity. The general trend is toward an individualism that owes no real loyalty to the visible community of faith in any serious sense. One may church-hop willy-nilly according to the slightest whim or grievance without any awareness of rending the body. Serial church-hopping is tantamount to a casual form of schism which divides, wounds, and impedes the Church in its local expression.”

(from Apostolic Succession: Bishop Bunyan by Roger Salter)

10 AM Worship

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3 PM Worship

10 AM Worship

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3 PM Worship

Dr. Scott Redd writes:

My wife and I like to talk about family worship–not because we have it all figured out, but because we actually enjoy experimenting with different ways to draw ourselves and our five daughters to God (Yes, five! Yes, daughters!). Of course, family worship with little children can be particularly intimidating to young parents trying the balance the complexities that go with that season of life.  Be encouraged, meaningful family worship is within reach.

I think of family worship as being comprised of three interconnected variables: the heart of family worship, the timing of family worship, and the manner of family worship. In the next two posts in this short series we will consider these three aspects. We will limit our consideration in this first post to the heart of family worship. The following treatment aims at being practical, but that requires us dabbling in a little theological grounding because, honestly, why else would we want to go through the cat-herding effort. To paraphrase the song, our family worships because “the Bible tells us so.” For the most part though, what comes next will deal with the hows and whats of regular family devotions in the midst of swim team schedules, play dates, distractible personalities, and bedtimes.

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Jerram Barrs writes:

We live in a culture filled with boredom and cynicism—even among our children. It is a tragic commentary on our culture that you can meet 16- and 17-year-old kids who are apathetic about their own existence and bored much of the time. And it is not only teenagers for whom this is a problem. I meet many young children whose natural curiosity and excitement has already been turned to boredom. How has the insatiable curiosity which occurs so naturally in little children been quenched? Why are there so many bored children and young people in our contemporary society? I do not claim to be a parenting expert, but I would like to propose three causes which I believe foster this boredom in our children.

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