Marriage and Babies at Boundless

From a recent Boundless article:
It’s only since the advent of pharmaceutical birth control that humans even had the option of choosing marriage while remaining closed to the possibility — and blessing — of children. And it’s only since people started writing their own wedding vows that we stopped including the part about promising to receive [...]

The Holiness of Changing Diapers…ala Martin Luther

“Now observe that when that clever harlot, our natural reason (which the pagans followed in trying to be most clever), takes a look at married life, she turns up her nose and says, “Alas, must I rock the baby, wash its diapers, make its bed, smell its stench, stay up nights with it, take care [...]

Tasting and Seeing that the Lord is Good: Experiencing the Faithfulness of God in Kingdom Families

Here’s a great testimony about how God is truly working in the hearts of minds of men and women to bring about his plan for kingdom families. Below is an excerpt fromt the article posted on the Start Your Family blog:

“Since God softened our hearts in this area, there have been times of fear and doubting. [...]

“While they are yet babes…”

From Charles Spurgeon’s morning devotional for September 17th:
“Bring him unto me.”- Mark 9:19
“Despairingly the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to their Master. His son was in the worst possible condition, and all means had failed, but the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the parent in faith obeyed [...]

How’s this for a Courtship letter? From the hand of Adoniram Judson.

From John Piper’s biography of the famous Baptist missionary to Burma, Adoniram Judson entitled, How Few There Are Who Die So Hard:Suffering and Success in the Life of Adoniram Judson: The Cost of Bringing Christ to Burma:
“On June 28, 1810 Judson and others presented themselves to the Congregationalists for missionary service in the East. He [...]

The Children

A poem by John Piper:

The Children
Do you hear the children crying?
I can hear them every day,
Crying, sighing, dying, flying
Somewhere safe where they can play.
Somewhere safe from all the dangers,
Somewhere safe from crack and AIDS,
Safe from lust and lurking strangers,
Safe from war and bombing raids.
Somewhere safe from malnutrition,
Safe from daddy’s damning voice,
Safe from mommy’s cool ambition,
Safe [...]

Albert Mohler Sermon Jam- “Living Dangerously”

From last year’s Southern Seminary convocation:

HT: Pursuing Holiness
That message inspired this post entitled, Living Dangerously…at Walgreens: What can our Purchases at a Pharmacy Tell us About our Theology?

“Farewell, lust of the flesh…”

Excerpted from “Whitefield Gold” complied by Ray Comfort from the sermons and writings of George Whitefield:
“Stop, stop, O sinner! Turn ye, turn ye, O ye unconverted men, for the end of that way you are now walking in, however right it may seem in your blinded eyes, will be death, even eternal destruction both of [...]

Sexual Roulette: Contraception and the Nature of the Sex Act

After (ashamedly, I might add) allowing my subscription to Touchstone Magazine lapse for an issue, I received my first new issue this morning from the postman. Already it has showed itself again to be a resource well worth reading and wrestling with. Anthony Esolen, on behalf of the editorial staff at Touchstone, wrote a scathing [...]

God’s Reign in Our Families: Does Family Planning Have a Place in the Kingdom of God?

In his work entitled, The Gospel of the Kingdom, George Eldon Ladd wrote, “..the righteousness which God demands of us, He must give to us, or we are lost. The only life which can be made pure is the life which knows the power of God’s Kingdom, His rule.” It is no secret in Scripture [...]