a word from the pastor

“You’ll live”

One of my memories growing up is of my dad telling me, after I had sustained what I thought was a serious injury, “you’ll live.” That’s parent speak for "suck it up, buttercup." A pastor friend of mine, reminiscing about his own childhood, said he was going to put three short lines on his dad’s...
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Parental Warning

Warning: Social Media can be harmful to the mental and physical health of your children. It may be time to make the above warning mandatory on every purchase of a smartphone. Writing for World Magazine, Mary Jackson reveals how smartphone addictions are “metastasizing into a mental health pand...
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Identifying the Rebel

In my last blog I discussed the danger of going our own way, and how we need to recognize the propensity for evil that is in all of us. Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. used to say, “Any sin any sinner ever committed, every sinner under proper provocation could commit.” But today I want to talk about your kids...
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Calling Men to Invest in Our Most Precious Assets

The innovative ideas of John Wanamaker, commonly known as the father of modern advertisement, continue to influence business practices today—even though he died in 1922. Wanamaker is credited with creating the department store and served as Postmaster General under President Benjamin Harrison. Bu...
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Is Your Child Prepared for College?

As a Christian dad, grandfather, and pastor, a major concern of mine is that our adversary, the devil, continues his relentless assault on the family. One of his battlegrounds is higher education, and surely he would like nothing more to disrupt the counsel of Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in ...
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The Collapsing Bridge of Adolescence

The U.S. has over 600,000 bridges, almost four in 10 of which are at least 50 years old. Moreover, about 9% of America’s bridges are considered “structurally deficient,” and on average there are about 188 million trips across a structurally deficient bridge each day. While this is concerning, the...
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The Children Begin to Speak

In this day in age, children are often treated more like commodities to be used for adult fulfillment instead of the human persons they inherently are. Two gay men get “married” and want to be fathers. Obviously, there’s a problem. It takes a man and a woman to have a baby. No problem, they’ll...
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Dysphoria or Delusion?

We live in a society that encourages children to embrace their gender dysphoria; a condition where a person’s emotional and psychological identity as male or female is opposite to their birth sex World magazine recently ran an article about the increasing number of books in elementary and midd...
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Depression and the American Adolescent

Leaving God out of one’s life will always produce a negative outcome. Well known journalist Elizabeth Bernstein recently published an article entitled, “How to Spot Teenage Depression.” She cites statistics that clearly indicate an increase in the number of adolescents who experience depressio...
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Gratitude Never Rebels

Four Practical Steps to Help Your Children Be Thankful - Looking back on my years as a student pastor, a handful of teens stood out for their strong testimony of Christian character and spiritual maturity. Four Practical Steps to Help Your Children Be Thankful Looking back on my years as a ...
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