Christian parents desire their children’s salvation – more than their own. We pray for them, teach and discipline them, and love them. For the years they live with us, they are in many ways our life. What a blessing that our Savior turns the hearts of fathers toward their children, and by his grace the hearts of children toward their fathers (Mal.4:6)! He alone can do this – not principles and programs or podcasts. Depending upon personality, constitutional te

Before we make the devil the scapegoat for all our woes and sins, three truths about the devil help us understand his person and work in the world and in our lives, what he can and cannot do, and how we must fight him. First, he is a creature, has limitations, and now has a fatal wound. The devil is a creature – not an equal with God. The devil is a rebel, and therefore subject to all the blindness, self-deception, half-truths, and flat-out lies that we tell o

The Reality of Socialism The cancer of Socialism is spreading in our land. Unbelief in God and rejection of his law breeds revolution in society. Socialism is part of the revolution against God. It is a naïve and deadly religion that believes in state or collectivist control of the means of production. It believes in a strong central state to make sure that income and wealth is distributed more “equitably.” It believes that everyone should have free education,