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...

Grant Castleberry | Executive Director The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Frankfort, Kentucky JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** In August Target became the next corporate power,1 after Amazon,2 to rid themselves of all gender designations and labels for children’s toys and bedding. In the corporate rush to not be the company behind the ever-moving gender...

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...

Andrew David Naselli Assistant Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology Bethlehem College & Seminary, Minneapolis, Minnesota JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** Pornography is to sex slavery what gasoline is to the engines of motor vehicles. Gas fuels engines. Pornography fuels sex slavery. Sex slavery and pornography are not two disconnected issues. They are organically connected...

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...