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25 Mar 09

I’ll finish with a few suggestions. Although there’s nothing a parent can do guarantee that his kids will remain in the faith, you can take some precautionary measures:

i) Choose your battles with care. Don’t give your kids too many things to rebel against. The more things you give them to rebel again, the more likely they are to rebel. Don’t load them down with unbiblical restrictions.
ii) In the nature of the case, happy people are not as restive as mad or sad people. For example, some parents treat church attendance as an onerous duty. Like eating your turnips and parsnips and spinach.
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- Are you kids miserable in church? Why? Try to find out. Try to do something about it.
- iii) The world likes to glamorize evil. By contrast, you should expose your kids to the ugly underbelly of evil. Do so in a controlled environment. Take them to shelters for battered women. Or prison ministries. Or night-watch ministries. Expose them to the violence and despair of a godless lifestyle.
- iv) Teach them basic reading skills. They should read some of the following books:
  
  Craig Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
  
  V. Philips Long, The Art of Biblical History
  
  Leland Ryken, Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible
  
  Meir Sternberg, The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
- v) And, of course, they should become acquainted with some standard apologetic literature. There’s a lot of find online material.

02 Mar 09

02 Feb 09

How to write Bible Study questions
They
should help group members to understand the meaning of the Bible verses for the original readers.
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- The
  questions should reveal the context of the Bible passage; how the passage relates to Jesus' teachings and
  fits into the Bible as a whole.
- The questions should challenge group members to think about the implications
  of the Bible verses to them.
- The questions should help you and your
  group members to apply the Biblical truths to your own lives.
- In general, the last one or two questions in your
  study will be application questions. You want to challenge group members to consider the Biblical truths
  they have learned in your study and how they are relevant to them and can be applied to their individual
  life situation.

01 Feb 09

Links for church leaders.

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14 Jan 09

Jesus is God’s promise fulfilled.
May you take great joy in Him and the celebration of His birth.
Christmas Blessings…

…with a prayer that you come to a quiet place of reflection on the simplicity of Jesus’ birth and the magnitude of His purpose.