Monday, September 12, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Real Male Leadership at home: Always Apologize First
(HT: Vit Z)
Barnabas Piper:
I occasionally get asked for advice about being a new husband or a first time dad. Since I got married young and had kids young I have “experience”, I guess. By “experience”, of course, I mean battle scars and bruises from my regular encounters with my own idiocy and penchant for mistakes. I must look like a weathered veteran or something.
When the question is put to me “what piece of advice would you give to a new husband/dad” I always want to come up with something that would make Solomon jealous and Confucius plagiarize. Instead, all I have ever been able to come up with is this: “Always apologize first.”
Somewhere along the way I was given this piece of advice (or pieces of advice that added up to it) by a particularly wise counselor, and it has been an astoundingly prescient word by which to live. It falls under the banner of “A soft answer turns away wrath.” It enforces humility and self-examination. And it douses the flames that threaten to burn bridges between wife and husband or father and children.
Barnabas Piper:
I occasionally get asked for advice about being a new husband or a first time dad. Since I got married young and had kids young I have “experience”, I guess. By “experience”, of course, I mean battle scars and bruises from my regular encounters with my own idiocy and penchant for mistakes. I must look like a weathered veteran or something.
When the question is put to me “what piece of advice would you give to a new husband/dad” I always want to come up with something that would make Solomon jealous and Confucius plagiarize. Instead, all I have ever been able to come up with is this: “Always apologize first.”
Somewhere along the way I was given this piece of advice (or pieces of advice that added up to it) by a particularly wise counselor, and it has been an astoundingly prescient word by which to live. It falls under the banner of “A soft answer turns away wrath.” It enforces humility and self-examination. And it douses the flames that threaten to burn bridges between wife and husband or father and children.
For your Weekend Enjoyment!
Calvin and the Snowmen:
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(HT: Trevin Wax)
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(HT: Trevin Wax)
(Click on the Images to see a bigger version: Or, just click on the link above to see them on Trevin Wax's blog)
Friday, September 2, 2011
Thou art coming to a King! Wow!
John Newton
Come, my soul, thy case prepare
Jesus loves to answer prayer
He Himself has bid thee pray
Therefore will not say thee nay
Thou art coming to a King
Large petitions with thee bring
For His grace and power are such
None can ever ask too much
(HT: Dane Ortlund)
Come, my soul, thy case prepare
Jesus loves to answer prayer
He Himself has bid thee pray
Therefore will not say thee nay
Thou art coming to a King
Large petitions with thee bring
For His grace and power are such
None can ever ask too much
(HT: Dane Ortlund)
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