“Circumcision was originally a seal of the promise of the land of Canaan… It was in the believing hope of that good land that the patriarchs circumcised their children; but when God had sworn in his wrath concerning the men who came out of Egypt that they should be consumed in the wilderness, and never enter Canaan, nor come within …
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A Generational Epidemic Of Bad Parenting
“Circumcision was originally a seal of the promise of the land of Canaan… It was in the believing hope of that good land that the patriarchs circumcised their children; but when God had sworn in his wrath concerning the men who came out of Egypt that they should be consumed in the wilderness, and never enter Canaan, nor come within sight of it, as a further ratification of that sentence, and to be a constant memorandum of it to them, all that fell under that sentence, and were to fall by it, were forbidden to circumcise their children, by which they were plainly told that, whatever others might, they should never have the benefit of that promise of which circumcision was the seal.” -Matthew Henry
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The Duty Of Children & The Duty Of Parents
It is the duty of children to ask questions, and it is the duty of parents (particularly fathers) to provide answers. Ample provision requires diligent work. Just as a father must work hard to make physical provision, so too must he work hard to make spiritual and theological provision. As Douglas Wilson has said, “A man may not be a …
“For This Is What It Means To Be King”
“For this is what it means to be a king: To be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there’s hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land.” -C. S. Lewis; King …
It Matters Where A Christian Lives
Christians need to start thinking biblically and strategically about where they live.
The Best Way To Love Your Grandchildren
This is by far the most effective way to love your grandchildren… before they’re even born.
How Mega-Churches Tyrannize Men
Large “program-driven” churches are subtle tyrants, especially towards fathers in the home.
Pastors Who Won’t Rebuke Women Are Pastors Who Hate Women | with Eric Conn
Pastors who refuse to rebuke women are pastors who hate women. Feminism is one of the chief causes of fatherlessness. If we truly want to protect children, we must esteem fatherhood. If we want to esteem fatherhood, we must destroy feminism. And if we are to successfully destroy feminism, pastors must stop hating women by treating them as sinless victims. …
Why Do The Children Of Believers Abandon The Faith? with C.R. Wiley
Many Christians today have grown children who have gone apostate – abandoned the Faith. Why does this keep happening, especially over the past recent decades? In this episode of Theology Applied, C. R. Wiley and Pastor Joel Webbon discuss this important question.
Faithful Baptists Should Expect All Their Children To Be Saved
Covenant Succession is the idea that the children of believers “are expected to succeed in the faith of their parents, and this is accomplished through the divinely ordained means of covenant nurture.” There is no theological reason Reformed Baptists shouldn’t believe this.
David Platt’s Hypocrisy, Economies Destroyed By Feminism, & The “Poverty Gospel”
Pastor Joel Webbon masterfully explains why American families can’t afford to stop sending their wives to work and their kids to public school.