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Westminster Assembly and The Directory of Family Worship
The Month of October's featured writer will be the “Westminster Assembly”. They wrote the Directory of Family Worship” to accompany and interweave it with the Westminster Confession of Faith. The Confession is the Theology while the Directory is the Methodology. Just...
7 Figures: Family Structure and Economic Success – From The Acton Institute
Family structure is one of the most significant, though oft-overlooked, factors that affect the economic fortunes of Americans. A new study from AEI titled “For Richer or Poorer” documents the relationships between family patterns and economic well-being in America...
Matthew Henry and the Impact of Family Worship
Matthew Henry, born in 1662, commented that his parents ‘taught us the good knowledge of the Lord, of the Lord Jesus, and led us into an acquaintance with Jesus Christ, and Him crucified’. At the age of twenty, he numbered some of the blessings he had received from...
Author of the Month of January – Family Worship 101 – Rev. WILLIAM BOEKESTEIN
Family Worship 101 “Why did you steal my gods?” With these words, Laban ended a passionate speech against his son-in-law, Jacob (Gen. 31:30). In fact, Laban’s daughter Rachel had stolen the gods, doubtless to keep alive the memory of her family after moving away with...
Matthew Henry and His Father Philip as Authors of the Month of July
A Church in the House will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you…to build upon….A family altar will be the best entail (cause) to rise up and call you blessed. It may be hoped they will be praising God for you, and...
Why India?
Why India? Why GLB? Why Now? 1. Population of Souls 2. Language & Stewardship 3. Providence & A Positive Approach 4. Front Line of Muslims, Hindu, Liberalism 5. Equipping the Nationals 6. They are Hungry 7. Reformed, Evangelical, &...
THE PRACTICE AND ART OF FATHERHOOD IS BEING LOST DAY BY DAY… BARNA REPORT
PSALM 78:5 GOD COMMANDED OUR FATHERS TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN ABOUT HIM SO THE NEXT GENERATIONS MAY KNOW GOD AND HIS MIGHTY ACTS. The Barna Group has been conducting and analyzing primary research to understand cultural trends related to values, beliefs, attitudes and...
2016 Annual Report
Let’s begin with one great big THANK YOU! This has been Grace Legacy Builders’ (GLB) most productive year so far and already it looks like next year we will even double our kingdom impact in comparison. We are duplicating and multiplying in: India and Sri-Lanka thanks...
When Clergy Capitulate
When George Whitefield came to America in the mid 1700's - He encouraged the people to ask: Is your preacher really saved? Whitefield reversed the European hierarchy of top down authority of: God King/Rulers/Preachers People. This gave America it's never ending...
Eight Commands for Husbands
Ephesians 5:25 [Husbands, love your wives] To be head of the wife (Eph. 5:23). To love their wives as Christ loved the Church (Eph. 5:25). To love their wives as their own bodies (Eph. 5:28,33). To nourish (Greek: ektrepho (GSN-<G1625>), bring up, care for,...
Is This Such a Big Deal??? Is Grace Legacy Builders A Waste of Time? Aren’t You Majoring in the Minors?
Let me give my top quotes form Others... Martin Luther: “If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not...
The Bible, Our Savior, Our Society
1 Corinthians 6:15-20 (ESV) Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as...
No Pastor Should be Without This Book!
http://www.familytheology.com/ A Theology of the Family, ed. Scott T. Brown and Jeff Pollard (Wake Forest, NC: The National Center for Family-Integrated Churches, 2014) This book presents a perspective on the family largely forgotten by the modern church. This volume...
The Featured Writer of the Month of January is Kerry Ptacek
Rev. Ptacek is pastor at Covenant Family Fellowship in Hoover, Ala. He is married to Joy and lives in Birmingham. As a pastor, Kerry has equipped men (within a broad range of maturity) to do family worship. He will describe the fruit in the leadership of those fathers...
Author of the month of November – John Wesley
“Give me one hundred men who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergyman or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon the earth.” —from a letter in the Works of John Wesley Rev....
Featured Writer For the Month of June is Martin Luther…
This Month's Featured Historical Writer is: Martin Luther… Martin Luther had 5 priorities: Scripture, Savoring His Savior, Eternal Souls, Satan, & Society. 1. The Supreme Authority of Scripture 2. The Sweetness of His Savior 3. The Significance of His...
Guys are in trouble
“Guys are in trouble these days, ... Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K." Garrison Keillor Compare John Piper's...
Lead, Bleed & Seed with Love & Courage
This is a sermon that I gave in chapel to the students and faculty of Puritian Reformed Theological Seminary in the fall of 1014. The Text: 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (ESV) 13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in...
A Kingdom Man Passes the Baton
The Christan life is a race: sometimes a sprint, mostly a marathon but always in the context of a relay race. - B.R.K Here is a great article from Tony Evans that I want to share with you. Leadership is more like a baton than a trophy. You keep a trophy, but...
Consequences of a Moral Tumble
Whenever I feel particularly vulnerable to sexual temptation, I find it helpful to review what effects my action could have: Grieving the Lord who redeemed me. Dragging his sacred name into the mud. One day having to look Jesus, the Righteous Judge, in the face and...
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Westminster Assembly and The Directory of Family Worship
7 Figures: Family Structure and Economic Success – From The Acton Institute
Matthew Henry and the Impact of Family Worship
Author of the Month of January – Family Worship 101 – Rev. WILLIAM BOEKESTEIN