Good writers love their editors. Fools disdain them. If it’s sometimes true good writers make their editors, more often good editors make their writers. Take Francis Schaeffer, for instance. Word among publishers was some of his manuscripts bore little resemblance to the final product. They were incoherent before editor did his work.
For first 15-20 yrs in ministry, every single Saturday night somewhere between 11 PM and 2 AM, I left my office and went home where I woke Mary Lee up and said I was ready. She sat up in bed and I read her my manuscript. Always she made a number of changes as I read, and there were nights where she told me the whole thing was bad and I needed to go back to my office and start over—which I did. Every book I’ve done has been read to her at least three times with constant changes she suggested.
Every blog post, too; and always a number of changes. It wasn’t uncommon for me to get irritated at her edits, but usually she was right. Anyhow, I always made the changes.
Brothers, think of your dear wife as the editor of your life, of your preaching and writing and fathering, who comes to you as God’s blessing.
When you know what you’re looking for, you can always tell the man who has no editor. It’s embarrassing.
You can always tell the husband who has no helpmate. What a crying shame for a Christian husband never to need the criticism and wisdom of the woman given him by God. You can always tell. It’s embarrassing.
Lower yourself and let your wife improve you. Do not despise God’s gift.
"Can we imagine Jesus winning converts and disciples by eliciting from the men around him their complaints and bitterness against their fathers? Can we picture Jesus flattering weak men who are spending their lives complaining about their daddy issues?
If we belong to Christ, certainly we didn’t enter the Kingdom of Heaven by hearing pastors condemn and expose other men’s sins."
Every drop of the blood of billions of aborted babies cries out from the ground for the vengeance of God. It is God’s Own image which mothers have destroyed, and the day will soon arrive when the ground will yield it all up for His reckoning and vengeance.
Keep it firmly in mind that much of this blood belongs to the Church’s covenant children.
Nothing shows the moral bankruptcy of a people or of a generation more than disregard for the sanctity of human life. And it is this same atrophy of moral fibre that appears in the plea for the abolition of the death penalty. It is the sanctity of life that validates the death penalty for the crime of murder.
The deeper our regard for life the firmer will be our hold upon the penal sanction which the violation of that sanctity merits.
The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground. Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. (Genesis 4:10-11)
Speaking of the two trans murderers this past week, must get our heads around fact that gays, lesbians, and trans souls are never choosing gender identity. Rebelling against & destroying identity, personhood, sex God decreed for them at moment of their conception, they are self-murderers. There is no self or personhood separate from male and female, so when a man rejects his sex, he/she murders his/her self. Think of the horror of hormonal/surgical mutilation and truth becomes clear.
From that point on, havoc wreaks havoc.
Evangelism that is loving will always call our neighbors who are sexual anarchists back to God’s male and female, and thus repentance and faith in God’s mercy in Jesus Christ. This is not a cultural or lifestyle matter, but life and death matter. Now and eternally. Love your neighbor with true love of truth.
“From the beginning He made them male and female” said Jesus.
Even the most conservative churches today are filled with rebellion against authority. Why? Because we have lost the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God. As fatherhood died, so the fear of God has died, and so authority has died. Having lost the doctrine of God’s Fatherhood, we simplistically bounce between what we understand to be the only two options: absolute autocracy and absolute mutuality.
W/Prince Andrew arrested & Bill Gates bowing out of AI speech today, everyone gets it real wickedness is male predators against women. What a relief male Hollywood, big tech, govt, VC titans rut w/one another, leaving women alone. Aren’t “Greco-Roman gays” wonderful?
“Some of these networks have begun to spill into public view. There is a Substack called Friend Of, written by Jack Randall, who formerly worked in communications at Robinhood, that chronicles gay ascendence into the centers of power. “We run the tech mafia (see Apple, OpenAI),” Randall writes. “We hold top government posts (see the Treasury Secretary). We anchor primetime news and the NYE Ball Drop. Our dating app’s stock outperforms its straight peers. And in the US, gay men are, on average, better educated and wealthier than the general population.””
“They are assumed to prize aesthetics and the masculine physique, scorn identity politics, reject DEI in favor of MEI—“merit, excellence, and intelligence”—and lean right-wing, if not MAGA. I’ve heard straight entrepreneurs describe them as “the Greco-Roman gays,” part of “an insular, hypermasculine culture” in which “women are seen as totally redundant and completely unnecessary.” (A woman who once worked for a gay Republican startup founder describes it like this: “You get about the same amount of misogyny, but not the sexual harassment. So that’s nice.”)”
EU and UK r regimes built on censorship now. At 86, John Cleese not going along w/it: ”As I am an Islamosceptic, I’m now worried that the Labour government may categorise me as a terrorist… I’m clearly a terrorist, so I’m afraid they are going to have to arrest me.”
Divided hearts produce divided citizenship produce divided churches. Where is your citizenship?
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians 3:20)
Last week, Tahoe avalanche left nine dead. Six were mothers who behind seven motherless children. News article reported family saying, “they were passionate, skilled skiers.” One father of two of the now-motherless children said his wife "spent her final days doing what she loved best, with the people who loved her most, in her favorite place.” Really?
Now the motherless children cry.
Mothers used to love their children more than themselves. Can we all repent of our insanity? Maybe for the sake of the children?