We have a new granddaughter on the way, and our daughter has asked us to help brainstorm Bible names. This new grandbaby will join sisters Ruth and Lois, both from the Bible, plus cousins named Josiah, Asher, Judah, Susannah, Adriel, and Alethia (Greek for “truth”). As for my wife Sharon and I, we’re named, respectively, …
A Name for the New Baby? Have You Checked the Bible? Read More »
USA Today reported recently on Daniel and Karlee Flores of Salem, Oregon. They’re both 27, and they married shortly after college graduation, assuming they would become young parents. But they never felt financially stable enough to start a family, and now they’re not sure they’ll ever want to have children. As Karlee puts it, “We …
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Then [Jesus] said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” Matthew 22:21 (ESV) By 1977, the UK’s Labour Government had raised the highest level of income tax, on unearned income, to 98 percent. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, was making good his …
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who …
William Wilberforce is famous not only for his persistent efforts to see the slave trade abolished in England, but as the author of Real Christianity,1 in which he makes the radical distinction between nominal and real Christians. Less well-known is the fact that Wilberforce regularly heard this distinction made in the sermons of his pastor …
Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel. Archbishop Tillotson made a wise remark when he said, “To give …
Good Advice for Father’s Day from J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) Read More »