Category: excerpts & quotes
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G.K. Chesterton on a New Year
New Years and such things are extraordinarily valuable. They are arbitrary divisions of time; they are a sudden and ceaseless cutting in two of time. But when we have an endless serpent in front of us, what can we do but cut it in two?
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Should young children receive the Lord’s Supper?
Follow the links below to read an outstanding article by Peter Leithart entitled “Paedocommunion, The Gospel, And The Church.” Among other things, it answers the aforementioned question, “Should young children receive the Lord’s Supper?” His closing line is especially relevant. “If the Reformed churches hope to advance the gospel with power in our day, we must…
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Training Tools by Lindsey Tollefson
I have put together a list of verses that I memorize with my girls. These have helped me in many situations. Have you ever seen your child in sin, and in the moment you can’t think of anything to say other than “Stop it! Just stop whatever it is that you are doing!“?—Lindsey Tollefson The frustrating…
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Nature’s Wonders Follow the Plow
The fallow field is smug, contented, protected from the shock of the plow and the agitation of the harrow. Such a field, as it lies year after year, becomes a familiar landmark to the crow and the blue jay. […] Safe and undisturbed, it sprawls lazily in the sunshine, the picture of sleepy contentment. But…
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One Child, One Image
If two men were building a house together, but they both held tightly to differing sets of blueprints, it would not be to the point to say that they still had much in common. They both own hammers, saws, nails, carpenter’s belts, and so on, and let us say that both of them were of…