God Centered Dad

  In my last article I talked about how the writer of Hebrews was encouraging the believers to whom he was writing to move from the milk of belief to the meat of solid doctrine. They had failed to study and practice what they had been taught and should have been reading in what we now call the Old Testament as well as the letters and the teachings of the Apostles which had been working their way around to the churches. I don't know if the recipients of this letter had received Paul's letters to the churches or if they received their teachings from Peter or the other Apostles. I guess after a little bit of consideration, in my mind it seems unlikely that this letter to the Hebrews was from Paul, as he had moved to concentrating his work among the Gentiles. But whoever had brought them to salvation and whomever was writing this letter to them, it is clear that the Hebrews seemed to understand that salvation was the destination when it is really just the start of the journey. Sinc...

  We are all aware that as human beings, we begin our lives living on milk alone. As we grow stronger and our body matures, we are able to start to digest more solid food, but that food is still soft enough that we can learn how to chew and work it in our mouths prior to the emergence of our teeth. It is expected that teeth will emerge which will allow us to tear into more substantial foods, grinding it down and starting to extract all the goodness from it that we can in preparation for our bodies to put that nourishment to good use to meet all the needs of our body through the further processes of digestion. This is a well known progression in our natural bodies, and if for some reason we do not see this progression occurring in our children, we will naturally intervene for their sake. We will seek outside help if we cannot find a solution for ourselves. We want our children to grow to be the strongest and the best that they can be. We know that there is a necessity to take in rea...

   There is a saying that I have come across quite a bit over the last several years. This saying is, "You vote yourself into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it." The irony of this situation is that under socialism, the government tends to confiscate all the guns under the guise of protecting the people. I have been thinking about the warning that I gave at the end of my last article. We need to be on the alert against governments taking absolute control of our civilization. We know that this is the tendency of people who attain to any level of power. This is not necessarily a left versus right phenomenon. I think this is just a bent, or strong inclination, of mankind. I also think that we can arrive at a place where we live under a totalitarian government through entirely innocent means if we are not careful. Or maybe if not by entirely innocent means, at least by using the justification of good. Here is another saying that we should be aware of, because it ...

   Today is the day that President Donald Trump re-enters the White House as the Commander in Chief of the United States of America. I am not American, but this will have an effect around the world. Anybody who thinks this will not affect them is a fool. We don't yet know what the full ramifications will be, but I am beginning to suspect that we won't actually like all the things that will change under Donald Trump. Don't get me wrong, if I could have voted in the American election, I would have voted for Trump. When he ran in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, he was by far the better, or at least the less dangerous candidate. The same was the case in the 2024 election against either Joe Biden or who ended up being the contender, Kamala Harris. We have witnessed on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border what far left ideologies can do to a country. Both countries have become overrun by ungrateful illegal migrants, crumbling economies, and woke ideologies polluting everything from...

   I generally try to write articles that I can back up with Scripture in the case of doctrinal or theological topics, or with historical or other factual points in the case of political or current events topics. This one is more of a pure opinion piece based on my experiences as a parent and someone who has worked with kids in out of school settings for years. Plus my own history dealing with bullies. In my article on spanking, I made a mention that I think that there is a place in society for mild bullying. This is an unpopular view in an age when the "educated professionals" have been doing all they can to mitigate the bullying that happens in the schools in particular. The school division that all of my children attended developed a "no tolerance" policy on bullying during the time that my kids were attending there, but like most official policies, there was a tonne of work put into the wording of the document and no thought put into the implementation of the po...

   At this time I am reading through the book of Joshua in my personal devotions. Just today I read in chapter 10 about the heroic and intensely masculine actions taken by Joshua and the Israelites. To set the context, in chapter nine we read about the failure of Joshua and the Israelite leaders to bring a matter to God before joining into a covenant of peace with the Gibeonites, who acted deceitfully towards the Israelites due to the very real and relevant fear of their people getting wiped out by the military campaigns by the Israelites against the peoples of the land of Canaan. The Israelites determined with only their eyes and their ears whether the Gibeonites were a people from far away as they stated, or if they were a nearby people acting to save their own skins. The Israelites failed to inquire of God in this matter and they were deceived. Upon discovery of the deceit, of course, Israel was angry, but Joshua was determined that they would not break the covenant that th...

   We live in a time when the world is over populated by people with multiple degrees behind their names who have access to tools which can amplify their personal ideologies around the world. I am not necessarily complaining, because though I do not have any degrees, I can also amplify my own ideologies around the world, but because I don't have the degrees, there is a large swath of the population that will grant my opinions no weight or merit. If you are reading this, I appreciate the value that you place on my thoughts, and I will not take that for granted. For my entire life, value has been placed on a post-secondary education, which has elevated the respect granted to the likes of teachers, professors, scientists, doctors and lawyers far above where they should really be. As such, the views of people in these professions are more readily sought, though in my opinion are seldom worth their own weight. Such is the case with "child psychologists". For literally millenni...