Share The Good News With The Children

Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. (Deut 6:6-7 NRSV)

How are you going to teach these words to your children; to your grandchildren; to your nieces and nephews, if you don't know them?

I am amazed at some of the memes that I see posted on various sites by young people whose parents profess to be Christians. These memes, based on a false narrative of what the Bible says, are usually attempts at exposing Christianity as a lie or a fairy tale or a complete myth. These memes are often used to try to portray Christians as uncaring or bigots or racists or a lot of other not so nice things. 

Unfortunately, a lot of people get their religious views from the television and as most of you are aware not everything that is on television is the truth! If you want your children to learn about this loving God, then they need to hear about Him. Do not leave it to the world to teach them. Tell them the stories from the Holy Scriptures. Read to them. Bring them to worship. Bring them to Sunday School. Discuss, with your children, what God has done for them that they might live life in the embrace of our loving God.

God's Peace - Pr. J.

Are You Listening?

"Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise." Deut 6:6-7
I do a lot of teaching and preaching of both the law and the gospel both at Bible Studies and at Worship as well as out in the community and at home. But, there are times when I just have to shake my head and wonder if anyone is listening? Do they not understand that there is only one true God and that God is almighty; all powerful; all loving; all merciful? It is not wise; it is not a good thing to worship other gods; to put anyone or anything before our Creator and Redeemer. I simply have a difficult time understanding how anyone would refuse to love and serve the only God who can save them from sin, death, and the power of the devil. How could anyone not love someone who was willing to die for them?

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart." Deut 6:4-6

May our Father in heaven, forgive us for not loving Him as we ought; for not loving Him even as He loves us.

God's Peace - Pr. J