I have one of those big study Bibles that includes the Apocrypha, although we Baptists don’t read that part of the Bible very often. It’s more of a Catholic thing, since Catholics include those books in the canon of Holy Scripture. Us? If we look at them at all it’s often only to marvel at [...]
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A Prayer for Your Wedding Night
Posted in Family, tagged angel, Apocrypha, dead, demon, died, killed, night, prayer, Sarah, Tobias, Tobit, wedding on February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The “Maturity” Checklist
Posted in Family, tagged boys, Family, growing up, Mary Rice Whiting Somerville, maturity, skills, sons on November 16, 2011 | 6 Comments »
My brother Scott has been serving as my mother’s “editor and publisher” recently, helping her sort through a lifetime’s worth of collected musings and publishing online those things that might be of interest to others. This one was of interest to me: a “maturity checklist” designed to help me and my brothers know if we were [...]
Keeping the Fifth Commandment
Posted in Family, tagged care, Dad, Family, father, Fifth Commandment, Honor, Mom, mother on September 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m in Frederick, Maryland, today, honoring my father and mother by taking care of them while my brother Scott and his family prepare for his daughter’s wedding at their farm in West Virginia. It’s been a pleasure. This morning, for example, Dad came in to breakfast with a memory about sacking oats in his boyhood [...]
My Father’s Eyes
Posted in Family, tagged bench, Dad, faithfulness, father, forgiveness, God, heavenly, love, park on June 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This was the conclusion of Sunday’s sermon, which ended up being a kind of Trinity Sunday/Father’s Day message. You can find the whole sermon on the First Baptist website at www.fbcrichmond.org, but I thought I would share this much of it with you here. Enjoy. ———————————————- On this Father’s Day I hope you will forgive [...]
