By constantly criticizing them and not encouraging them. When they feel they can never please us enough. By having double standards. Do as I say, not as I do. Expecting them to do things we don’t do, e.g., ask forgiveness, humble themselves, etc. By anger and harshness. By a lack of affection   Fathers, do... Continue Reading

The Bodnarius still need to stand trial in order to regain custody of their children. As the agency wants them to submit to a psychological evaluation, the family has requested that a psychologist not associated with the Barnevernet to do the evaluations. The statement claims that the prosecutor denied the family’s proposal for an outside... Continue Reading

“Professor Miller had theological and pastoral concerns over what was at stake: the genuineness of a sinner’s conversion.  He was rightly troubled about the danger of ‘human management’ of a process of conversion, which emphasized human methods over the biblical message.”   The name Samuel Miller may be unfamiliar to most in the Reformed camp... Continue Reading

Those who insist that the aforementioned examples are just sporadic rants of an unorganized lunatic fringe would do well to remember that the homosexual movement began in a similar fashion. They should also heed the fact that we are not dealing with mere basement-dwelling bloggers. We are dealing with people who can shape cultural and... Continue Reading

Perhaps the clergymen who conduct relatively secular services are moved by a desire not to offend the nonbelievers in attendance—whose numbers tend to increase in proportion to the prominence of the deceased. What a great mistake. Weddings and funerals (but especially funerals) are the principal occasions left in modern America when you can preach the... Continue Reading

“Look, I started out with nothing more than a single cell,” said Gilford, who makes a point of frequently reminding himself of all those weeks he had to scrape by on whatever was delivered to him through his umbilical cord. “And then I managed to double it, double that again, and then double that again.... Continue Reading

Christian journalists used a wide variety of words and phrases to refer to Saeed’s abuse of Naghmeh, from the more direct ‘abuse,’ ‘marital abuse’, and ‘spousal abuse’ to the more ambiguous ‘marital woes’, ‘marriage problems,’ and ‘marital issues’. Breaking Christian News was among those using the softest language, referring only to Naghmeh’s ‘stress’ in pre-release... Continue Reading

Scalia’s worldview was shaped by his Roman Catholic faith, and he often scandalized liberals by making clear that he believed in the virgin birth and bodily resurrection of Christ and threw their unbelief back at them: “For the Son of God to be born of a virgin? I mean really. To believe that he rose... Continue Reading

“When we stood there getting married, I remember the preacher saying ‘For better, for worse; in sickness, in health.’ I was 20 years old and I thought, I wonder what ‘in sickness and in health’ means,” Darnly said. “I thought, he’ll have a stroke in 40 years; I can do that.” Sickness came in nine... Continue Reading

“Privately tutored, Haynes became the first African American to be ordained by any religious denomination. Upon ordination, Haynes then served white congregations for more than thirty years. Middlebury College awarded him the master’s degree in 1804, another first for an African American.”   1. A Gospel-Centered Ministry: “The Black Puritan” Lemuel Haynes offers a remarkable... Continue Reading