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Puritan Family Lessons

The Resurgence posted this blog today on the Puritan’s convictions about family worship and the need for families to see themselves as a little church.  Loved the thoughts here, and saw application to Genesis families.  As a church, our philosophy is that the primary location for training kids is the home, and we are here […]

Devotion – Proverbs 27

Read all of Proberbs 27, focus on Proverbs 27:23-27 How are your flocks doing?  You getting enough goat’s milk?  Are your herds eating up all your front yard grass?  Oh yeah, no goats and sheep at your house, so this passage doesn’t have meaning, right?  This is an interesting passage addressing some of the financial […]

Praising God for His Indignation?!

Been reading through Psalms, and this morning I read David’s prayer that he put to music in Psalm 7.   The Psalm is a cry to God to save him from evil people, recognizing that God is his refuge, his place of safety.  The basis of his hope is God’s wrath, his righteous indignation against sin […]

Counterfeit Gods – A resource for thorns

Been using the blog to suggest books to people who hear the Sunday message and wrestle with the various types of dirt in the Parable of the Soils.  This week dirt was filled with thorns, representing those things in our lives that compete with God as the object of our allegiance and worship.  The Bible […]

Devotion – Proverbs 26

This devotion focuses on all of Proverbs 26. I have always said that if I could spend twenty minutes with a person and their friends, I can pretty much tell you everything about them.  It really doesn’t take long for a perceptive person to figure others out.  If you will watch, you can tell what […]