On New Year’s Resolutions

I love the new year. I love New Years, anniversaries, birthdays (not the parties so much)…any natural pause in life that encourages me to reflect, repent, rejoice, and resolve. But …

Parenting: What Is Our Chief Aim?

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”—Ephesians 6:4 First, let us see to what end our parenting is aiming …

Don’t Provoke Your Kids

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger . . .” (Ephesians 6:8) Our desires and emotions are typically good, godly desires that sin robs and twists into selfishness, tantrums …

Grace Is Not Cute

Grace is spoken of with relative ease in Evangelical circles. As much as the word “Gospel” is thrown around, so too is “grace;” yet, I wonder if we really understand …

Gracious Love, Not Provocation

“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” – Colossians 3:21 “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger…” – Ephesians 6:8 Our desires, or emotions, are typically good, godly desires that …