One percent of the child's time is spent under the influence of the Sunday school: seven percent under the influence of the public school; 92 percent under the influence of the home. -Albert ...
In ancient China, the people desired security from the barbaric hordes to the north; so they built the great Chinese wall. It was so high they knew no one could climb over it and so thick that nothing...
Beatitudes for Children's Workers Blessed are they who love children with all their hearts, for they shall be rewarded with hugs and smiles. Blessed are they who have planned and prepared, for the ch...
Griffin O'Neal has accused his father, Ryan, of turning him onto cocaine at the age of 13. In an explosive interview, a bitter Griffin also charged that his womanizing dad encouraged him to follow in ...
The Right Image Recently I read an interesting item in the newspaper that illustrates the importance of mental association in making decisions. A high school in Virginia offered a course called "Home ...
Occasionally I hear a so-called liberated parent say, "I don't want to tilt my child toward religion. I want to leave him free to examine the evidence and make up his own mind." Such comments remind m...
According to a report in The Washington Times, most Americans believe the Bible is more factual than newspapers but find their daily newspapers far easier to read. This suggests Americans are more wil...
Men will be boys...long after they should be taking responsibility for their lives and maturing professionally, personally and spiritually....
I’m sitting in row seven watching Dr. Bob, our senior pastor, give today’s sermon for children. He raises a box and squints his eyes as though he is trying to figure out what is in it. Now most of us,...
John Barry
Pointers from John Piper on approaching the Bible...
1 Corinthians 2:12-13 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we speak of these things in w...
Many Christian women today view the sermon—the proclamation of the gospel—as the centerpiece of the worship experience. They yearn for the serious pastor to stand with integrity in the pulpit, open hi...
A Pentecostal minister cannot respond to our postmodern world with strategies that deal only with surface issues. Instead, he or she must create new methods of sharing the message without disturbing t...