Posted in Encouragement, Faith, Family, tagged christianity, Faith, Family, fatherhood, Worship on October 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Related to my post below, here is wonderful material from S. G. Winchester. This is a series of articles that details the spiritual responsibility of the father in the home. The fruit of evangelical homes that do not have godly leadership is everywhere in the church today, and it is a tragedy. I hope these [...]
Posted in Faith, Family on October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Dr. Joel R. Beeke has written a good article on how to implement family worship. Fathers are the head of the home spiritually and the children will take note of their leadership of lack of it in this area.
Posted in Encouragement, Faith, Great Quotes, tagged christianity, Faith, Jesus, Puritans on October 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
“What is forgiveness, but God’s grace remitting our sins? What is justification, but God’s grace accepting us? What is sanctification, but God’s grace purifying our hearts? What is adoption, but God’s grace making us sons? What is our final salvation, but God’s grace keeping us from falling and preserving us into His eternal [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Faith, tagged Bible, christianity, spirituality on October 16, 2007 | 5 Comments »
A reader read my post below about the issues within conservative churches (Slice Archive Update) and asked what I meant by my references to dead orthodoxy, dead textualism and so forth. I think that the reader thought I had been sipping emergent Kool-Aid. I want to assure them and everyone else that nothing could be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2007 | 18 Comments »
After the destruction of the original Slice by an incompetent hosting company, I decided to gradually republish salvageable posts from the past that are of some informational value. The site is now online. In addition, I will be occasionally adding current news stories minus public comment for sole purpose of giving out important information. Thanks [...]
Posted in Family, tagged babies, childcare, Family, feminism, women on October 15, 2007 | 23 Comments »
The headline on a news story this week read, “Laura Bush Not ‘Baking Cookies.’” The article detailed the First Lady’s increasing involvement in national and international issues, and the headline referred to Hillary Clinton’s now famously sneering reference to the fact that she wasn’t the type to “stay home and bake cookies.” A local women’s [...]
Posted in Battle for Truth on October 15, 2007 | 10 Comments »
“Whenever a church meets, either as a whole or representatively, there is a solemn dignity cast about that assembly which is not to be found in a parliament of kings and princes.”
–Charles Spurgeon
Last night my husband and I were out to eat with a Christian friend from Ohio. He told of trying to find a [...]
Posted in Great Quotes on October 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Do not even such things as are most bitter to the flesh, tend to awaken Christians to faith and prayer, to a sight of the emptiness of this world, and the fadingness of the best it yield? Doth not God by these things (ofttimes) call our sins to remembrance, and provoke us to amendment of [...]
Posted in Encouragement, Faith, Persecution, tagged christianity, Human Rights Abuses, Persecution, spirituality, suffering on October 13, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I was sent a book a few days ago. I couldn’t stop reading one evening until it was finished. It is the story of Silvia Tarniceriu, a Romanian woman who grew up under the communist dictator, Nikolai Ceaucescu. Friends, we don’t even have a clue what suffering for Jesus is like in our country. Silvia’s [...]
Posted in Crosstalk, Encouragement, tagged Christiainty, good books, Reformation, spirituality on October 10, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My husband, William and I are kidnapping my mother and taking her away on a three day trip to Door County. This is peak weekend for leaves in many parts of our state, and we wanted to give her a change of scenery. Mom serves others every day of her life but rarely does anything [...]
