Building on the Foundation

Protect Your Castle Our culture grossly misunderstands marriage, and that is to be expected since marriage is a creation of God, and our culture grossly misunderstands God.  Marriage is a creation of God.   He created it, and He gets to define it, from beginning to end, and He does so in His word. If we are going to call ourselves Christians, followers of God, then naturally we must actually believe what He tells us in His word.  There’s no point in calling ourselves Christians, and it’s not even true if we are going to ignore what God says and simply redefine His word to suit our comfort and sinful lifestyles. We might as well be honest with ourselves and acknowledge that we are not really Christians at all.  You don’t have to follow God, and in fact, you can just go about your normal life without calling yourself a Christian, because if you’re not adhering to the standard, you’re not actually a Christian, much like someone who tries a specific challenge and then ch...

Maturity, biblical maturity, and what it means for a man to take full responsibility for his doctrine, his household, his conduct, his thoughts, and his emotional life before God is a serious topic. Scripture does not define maturity by age, sincerity, or intentions, but by obedience and self-rule. There’s a time to be a child in our lives, and that’s the place we all begin. We start as mewling pukers in our mother’s arms, unable to even wipe our own butts, and then we gradually become more and more self-sufficient until we reach the age of 13, whereupon we are granted all knowledge and wisdom.  However, we are not yet men, and our knowledge and wisdom are like a shallow pond, nice to look at, but kind of smelly, and it will injure you if you try to dive in. This stage is not entirely useless because it shows a longing and an innate urge to grow up and become something other than a child. We reach for this fruit too soon, and we fall out of the tree a few times, but we are growing....