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What anxieties do you carry in old age? How have you armed yourself to finish your race well? God has given us promises big and strong enough for anything we fear.
The death of U.S. missionary John Chau on a remote Indian island could be used by God to light a missionary fire around the world, a Christian pastor and author has said.
Staff writer, desiringGod.org
As our cultural moment seems to spiral into greater disorder, men of God do well to ensure that they attend to their own households. With so much happening beyond our walls, the temptation can be to neglect what happens within them.
We can fail to realize that our homes are precisely where many ungodly arrows are aimed. The attempts to redefine marriage, maleness and femaleness, and what constitutes a âmodernâ family are swings of the ax at the same trunk. The Christian household, in glad submission to Godâs design, has been secularismâs target all along. Our churches will be strengthened, and the trajectory of culture helped, when more of us resolve with Joshua, âAs for me and my house, we will serve the Lordâ (Joshua 24:15).
Professor, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
After nearly a half-century in ministry, including preaching in 47 states, it is my observation that few Christian homes practice regular family worship. I would even venture to say that in
most of our
most of our
best men do not lead their wives â and children if they have them â in family worship.
Having your family in a good, Bible-teaching local church is crucial to a Christian marriage and parenting. But it is unlikely that church attendance alone will impress your children with the greatness and glory of God such that they will want to pursue him once they leave home. In this article, I want to convey one main point: God deserves to be worshiped daily in our homes by our families.