CGG Weekly published this essay as “Do We See Our Calling?” on May 31, 2024. For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. —I Corinthians 1:26 We are all aware of what the apostle Paul writes …
Tim Challies offers another good recommendation for parents, “The Parenting Book Too Few Parents Read.” Acknowledging that rearing children in this culture is difficult, Challies encourages parents to tap the wisdom of experts, those who have already displayed success in this area of life. I believe that many parents fail …
In “Are You a ‘Yeah, But . . .’ Christian,” Tim Challies notes that many professing Christians immediately look for exceptions to the Bible’s clear instructions rather than simply obey them in faith. If we truly trust our Savior, why are we always looking to get out of what He …
In what has become a short series of articles (the first was on marriage; see here), Tim Challies offers “If Satan Wrote a Book on Parenting,” listing nineteen pieces of “advice” Satan might give parents about raising children in today’s world. With how plugged into this culture we tend to …
In “The Problem with Proverbs,” Peter Krol writes about the unique practicality of the book of Proverbs, which invests it with peculiar problems. He shows how the book is arranged, with the final two-thirds based on the initial third and its godly worldview. The two cannot be separated. What a …
I wrote this essay, “Wisdom for the Young (Part Four),”for the November 12, 2010, CGG Weekly. “Folly is joy to him who is destitute of discernment, but a man of understanding walks uprightly.” —Proverbs 15:21 Proverbs 15:21 makes an interesting comment on the subject of foolishness: “Folly is joy to him who is destitute of …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “Wisdom for the Young (Part Three),” on November 5, 2010. “I said in my heart, ‘Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure’; but surely, this also was vanity.” —Ecclesiastes 2:1 Ecclesiastes 2 records what Solomon experienced when he was a young …
This essay, “Wisdom for the Young (Part Two),” appeared in the October 29, 2010, issue of CGG Weekly. “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child . . ..” —Proverbs 22:15 Part of the problem that confronts young people today is that they—and frankly, all of society—have a …
