Despite the obvious wisdom of modern pop culture - even that of the "Christian" variety - everyone got fed.
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| Pot roast, baked sweet potatoes, salad and water melon. |
Everyone got clean.
I even taught Sheba and Hadassah how to make a delicious breakfast casserole that'll last all week, so they don't have to cook for their siblings every morning. They made it without my help last Sunday, and it was a big hit.
Most shockingly of all, nobody ended up at a tattoo parlor or in prison!
Happy Fathers' Day, fellow dads! Chances are that you'll have to sit through yet another sermon about how much dads suck, and how we all need to just man up and stop sucking so badly. I bet you'll never hears a sermon like that on Mothers' Day! Yeah, I know. It gets really tiresome, especially when so-called "pro-family" organizations like Focus on the Family and Family Life Today promote garbage like the so-called "pro-family" movie, "Moms' Night Out".
Apparently, undermining families by portraying fathers as irresponsible, incompetent, impotent imbeciles is now a "Christian" "family" "value". I guess that's progress.
Guess what, dads? We can only influence that which lies within our sphere of influence, and that begins with our families. Yes, even so-called "pro-family", "Christian" organizations are undermining us now.
Let's honor God in our families anyway.
His favor is - ultimately - the only one we need. And our obedience is what He requires. We don't need to be ordained to obey Paul's instructions to Titus.
But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: 2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; 3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
6 Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded, 7 in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility,[a] 8 sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.[b]
9 Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back, 10 not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. (Titus 2:1-10 NKJV)Let us...
13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in love. (1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV)After all, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31)
