Doug In a Bottle

I'm learning a lot about growing up. Yes, I'm thirty. That is painfully obvious, still, I manage to find things to learn. It's almost as if my gramma was right when she declared "you learn something new every day". This afternoon my in laws are over helping out with some things around the house, I'm inside watching Ollie while I try and finish up some work for my best customer. This is really a great life. I can provide for my family while being barefoot and watching my son make funny noises while he sleeps in his snugabunny. We were in worship, as usual, this Sunday morning singing and my son, with his tiny little meat hook, held my finger pretty much the whole time. Then it hit me: this is how we ought to hold on to Christ.  Not to keep from falling but because we Love Him.  But how often are we trying desperately to do what we ought instead of looking to Him who has promised to make us walk in His statutes? Don't mistake what I...

If you say you cannot restrain your children, this is no excuse; for it is a sign that you have brought up your children without government, that your children regard not your authority. When parents lose their government over their children, their reproofs and counsel signify but little. How many parents are there who are exceedingly faulty on this account! How few are there who are thorough in maintaining order and government in their families! How is family-government in a great measure vanished! and how many are as likely to bring a curse upon their families, as Eli! This is one principal ground of the corruptions which prevail in the land. This is the foundation of so much debauchery, and of such corrupt practices among young people: family-government is in a great measure extinct. By neglect in this particular, parents bring the guilt of their children’s sins upon their own souls, and the blood of their children will be required ...