In his marvelous book Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton writes one of the most powerful paragraphs on the joy of God. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, 'Do it again'; and the grown-up person does it again until he is …
God of the Little Ones
This past weekend, we continued our series, "God in Blank Spaces," at Eastbrook Church by looking at Matthew 19:13-15 on Jesus and the little children. In a world where 353,00 babies are born every day and one new child is born every 8 seconds in our country, how is God at work? In Jesus' day and time, …
Children as a Symbol of Hope
As I prepared for my message from this past weekend, "God of the Little Ones," I read a lot of different material. In returning to Stanley Hauerwas' A Community of Character, I was seized by the power of his comments on children, not only in relation to parents but also in terms of the broader community …
5 Practices to Jumpstart Your Family (pt 2)
This continues the post from yesterday "5 Practices to Jumpstart Your Family." Practice 4: Worship together on the weekend. Now it may seem unnecessary to even say this, but a practical way to encourage your children to know God is to come to worship in community every week. If you want your kids to learn …
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5 Practices to Jumpstart Your Family (Pt 1)
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4 If there is one thing that should you do for your children it is this: help them to know God and become followers of Christ. That is the bottom line. This is an incredibly …
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Matthew Erickson 