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A Cotton Mather Inspired Question {contest!}

I was thumbing through Cotton Mather’s A Family Well Ordered and I came across this:

Parents, with a sweet authority over your children, rebuke them for and restrain them from everything that may prove prejudicial to their salvation.

The charge to restrain them from “everything that may prove prejudicial to their salvation” is pretty loose.  My question to you is: What are we as Christians failing to restrain our children from that we ought to be?  Is it public schools? Home schools? Irrelevant preaching? An anemic gospel?

Let me know in the comment section below.  I’ll choose one commenter at random to win a copy of Mather’s book on Friday.


Two links for Monday

To say he had & created emotions is to make an understatement.First: Sunday Morning Message

I preached Ruth 1:6-22 twice now, first in Tacoma and then at the Columbia BPC in Oregon yesterday. Each time the emotions boil over — not sure what to think about that. I can assure you that with this particular message, I just can’t seem to keep it in.  In homiletics they’d always say that such a thing was fine, so long as it didn’t distract from the message.  I don’t think I did from the feedback & conversations that followed, but listen for yourself & let me know what you think.

Second: More Contests

If you’re feeling blue about missing out on that epic 1-in-9 chance to win a prize, Mark from Here I Blog has a contest of his own.  Presumably with worse odds given his large (and deserved) following… but you never know!

It’s over!

Congrats to Andrew Fisher on winning the first ever contest for this blog.  I’ll do another one next month, so keep checking back because you’re not going to find better odds on a giveaway, even if it’s not for an ipad.

Contest! The Cross and the Crescent.

I’ve got myself an extra copy of R.C. Sproul & Abdul Saleeb’s The Cross and the Crescent.

If you’d like it, simply leave a comment that starts with the words “The one thing the my church needs to do is…” and then fill in the blanks.  This is me being curious.  +

I’ll draw a winner randomly on Friday.  You can follow me on twitter & tweet about it if you’d like.