Dr. Jonathan Akin Pastor Fairview Church Lebanon, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** Is Proverbs 22:6 a promise? Many Christian parents feel guilty when their children do not “turn out right.” They ask questions like, “What did we do wrong? What else could we have done?” What is more problematic is that the guilt so...

Rachel Jankovic | Mother, Writer, & Author of Loving the Little Years Moscow, Idaho JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** I think it is safe to assume that most believers are familiar with the many Biblical passages that speak of children as gifts (see especially Psalms 127, 128). They are considered a blessing, and inheritance, like arrows...

Greg Gibson | Family Ministries Pastor Foothills Church, Knoxville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** We’ve all heard it before—stories, that is, from people reminiscing about the “good ol’ days” when they were kids. “When I was a boy,” they say with an antiquated shimmer in their eye, “we could roam the streets, climb the tallest of...

Jason Meyer | Pastor for Preaching and Vision Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not...

Last time I sought to lay out a brief biblical summons to God-glorifying, gospel-fueled ambition. He has vested us as men with leadership in our homes, our churches, and in some measure, our jobs and relationships. We do not to live lives void of real meaning, God has made us for a mission while we...

I am a mother to three precious cowboys. I could also describe them as walking tornados who love adventure, sports, and rodeo. Now aged 4, 6 and 8, these boys stretch me in ways I didn’t know I could be stretched. And while I delight in their boyish antics most of the time, I also...