How not to teach God's Sovereignty

Via: ASBO Jesus (pastors especially should read the comments section at ASBO Jesus to see how damaging this sort of thing is + to garner the kind of helpful things one could say when chatting to those who are grieving)

Advice on impromptu speaking

“It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” — Mark Twain

“If you want me to talk for ten minutes, I’ll come next week. If you want me to talk for an hour I’ll come tonight.” — Woodrow Wilson

Harold Macmillan: “What are you doing, prime minister?”

Winston Churchill: “Rehearsing my impromptu witticisms.”

NOT, preach the gospel always, use words if necessary BUT...

Preach the gospel always and since it is necessary, use words!

Over time, women are like wine while men are like milk!

One of many witty insights you'll hear in the interview below...

Doug Wilson Interviews Mark Driscoll (Part 1) | Men & Masculinity from Canon Wired on Vimeo.

God's law = real freedom

“The condition of a fish’s life, its environment, is water; take a fish out of water, and it dies. The condition of a tree’s life, its health and its environment, is the soil; uproot a tree, and you kill it. It is no act of liberation to take a fish out of water, or a tree out of the ground. Similarly, the condition of a man’s life, the ground of man’s moral, spiritual, and physical health, is the law of God. To take men and societies out of the world of God’s law is to sentence them to a decline, fall, and death. Instead of liberation, it is execution. Man’s liberty is under God’s law, and God’s law is the life-giving air of man and society, the basic condition of their existence.”

Rousas Rushdoony, Law and Liberty

If you're single and male, 27 is the limit!

In a parley with Mark Driscoll, Doug Wilson advises young men that "if you're single, male and 27, find out her name and ask her."

Ooops! So I blew that one then but, I suppose better late than never

Nothing is more important than...

Sunday Worship.

Don’t make rules for your family that contradict the rules Jesus makes for us. Worship is the most important thing we do for our individual families. The best thing you can ever do for your children is to teach them that there is nothing, nothing, more important than worshiping God with His people on Sunday. If they learn this lesson, your family will be mightily blessed — and they will be blessed because they have learned that our individual families are secondary to the Family of God.

Read the rest at Family Time