Advice for New Parents
Children belong to God who created them and entrusted them to their parents. Each child is an image-bearer of God, and parents will one day stand before the Lord and give account of our stewardship.
Children belong to God who created them and entrusted them to their parents. Each child is an image-bearer of God, and parents will one day stand before the Lord and give account of our stewardship.
Our goal should not be to build a lasting legacy among men but to earn the praise of our Master, because we have been found faithful.
The summer years of life slip by and the harvest is complete and we stand before God plainly aware of the fact that we never took time to do the most important things of all of life, to choose Christ as our own personal Savior.
Because expository preaching seeks to declare the word of God rather than the imaginations of men, it reasserts biblical authority and with it the authority of the preaching office.
“The impression given by the events in vv.1-4 is that they are an interlude, a sort of calm before the storm. For a brief moment we see a glimpse of humankind in the midst of their everyday affairs.”