Husband to Megan. Father of six. Pastor at Covenant Fellowship. Helping build the quiet, faithful life with @churchandfam. Pursuing a ThM at @CBTSeminary.
Bedford, Virginia
Joined February 2009
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Most of us would love our children beside us as we worship, but we've been told it's impossible and not worth it. Too much squirming, too many looks from the pew behind, too long a sermon for a five-year-old. It's possible, and it's biblical. Here's how:
worshipasafamily.com/worship…
We are just two weeks away from the Quiet Faithfulness launch!
Why another podcast?
This podcast aims to turn down the noise and raise the bar for managing our own affairs. Proverbs 27:23 tells us, "Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds." To live faithful lives, we start with our own homes, our own churches, and our own labors.
We hope this podcast will help!
Updates at churchandfamilylife.com
I am excited to announce the launch of Quiet Faithfulness. A new podcast from @churchandfam where I sit down with a special guest and discuss how Christians can reclaim focused, dignified faithfulness in all of life.
One episode a month, with the first dropping on November 12th!
I'll be sharing more in the weeks ahead. Sign up for updates here: churchandfamilylife.com/quie…
In raising six children and pastoring all sorts of families over the last decade, I've noticed one trend that has massive impact on a family's trajectory: Fathers seeing their presence in the ordinary moments of the home as discipleship.
Not the big cinematic speech. Not the perfect family worship. The way we answer a hard question at the dinner table, the way we apologize when we snap, the way we open the Bible even when everyone is tired.
Your kids are watching the man, not the plan.
What’s one ordinary habit you’ve found actually shapes your children more than you expected?
“For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.”
- Proverbs 26:20
Yesterday I had the privilege of spending the day with several other pastors learning about the life and ministry of Lloyd Sprinkle. The faithful pastor of Providence Baptist in Harrisonburg, VA for 53 years and founder of Sprinkle Publications. Then I come home to see all the mess of influencer-pastors and latest squabbles.
Brothers, stay the course. The path really is a quiet, steady plodding, entrusting your life and fruit to Christ.
Adam Triplett retweeted
"The question has been discussed among those who subscribe the 1689 whether the New Covenant is the Covenant of Grace. I have come to that opinion myself."
Sam Waldron
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Adam Triplett retweeted
"You do not need to take dramatic action against everything in the culture. Faithfulness is often quieter than that." - Scott Brown
Dr. Gladd's poking at the big problem in dispensational thinking: "You're either with us or you're the boogeyman"
You can see it in some of the replies.
My biggest fear about the dispensational crowd isn't just their errors, but their inability to discuss them.
I've been listening to some dispensational podcasts as of late, and I keep bumping up against a problem. 🚦
According to a lot of dispensationalists, an interpreter holds to dispensationalism or "replacement theology."
I'm a covenant theologian but I don't hold to replacement theology. The church doesn't replace Israel.
The church is the CONTINUATION of true Israel in Christ. NT believers are joined to OT believers as the covenant community. That's not replacement.
“Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!””
- Proverbs 26:18–19
One of the biggest ways we've been fooled by the Enemy over the last 25 years is through the lie that ambition, drive, and passion are sins.
Throughout the history of the Church, God's kingdom has expanded when men were willing to serve Christ with great zeal, laying down their lives so He might be known.
Where are the men of passion for the Lord?
Jesus Christ doesn't call His people to reject greatness; He tells them it's born through service & sacrifice (Matthew 20:27-28).
This week, if you want to be great...
1. Lead your household in the fear of the Lord.
2. Serve your wife and children before you serve yourself.
3. Do the work in front of you with excellence and without complaint.
4. Protect what God has given you from the world’s agenda.
5. Refuse to confuse passivity with piety.
Greatness in the kingdom is not the absence of ambition. It is ambition aimed at the right things.
Adam Triplett retweeted
What have been the biggest blessings of shifting to a family-integrated church model?
🎙️Listen to this new episode of the Church and Family Life Podcast
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In this episode of our Church and Family Life Podcast, @SBrownOnline and Jason Dohm talk with Paul White, pastor of Covenant Bible Church, about his congregation’s transition from a program-driven, age-segregated model to family-integrated worship.
They discuss:
- How the sufficiency of Scripture made Paul reconsider assumptions about church life
- The biblical pattern of generations worshiping together
- The challenges of transitioning a church to family-integrated services
- Why biblical convictions are more important than pragmatism
- How to shepherd families through change
Looking back on his church’s journey, Paul paints a beautiful and humbling picture of the fruit of this change: whole families worshipping together and children growing up within the gathered church.
Follow @churchandfam for daily parenting and family discipleship tips and resources.
“Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.”
- Proverbs 26:17
Yesterday was a banner day for Covenant Fellowship: we installed a new deacon during our AM service and baptized a young man during our PM service. As a pastor, nothing beats that.
It is wonderful to see what God is doing in our church!
Jesus Christ doesn't call His people to reject greatness; He tells them it's born through service & sacrifice (Matthew 20:27-28).
This week, if you want to be great...
1. Lead your household in the fear of the Lord.
2. Serve your wife and children before you serve yourself.
3. Do the work in front of you with excellence and without complaint.
4. Protect what God has given you from the world’s agenda.
5. Refuse to confuse passivity with piety.
Greatness in the kingdom is not the absence of ambition. It is ambition aimed at the right things.
“Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.” - Hebrews 12:28–29
This can primarily be attributed to two things: the failure of parents to disciple their own children and the rise of professionalization of the youth ministry and children’s ministry culture, resulting in families that showed up on Sundays and handed their kids off, and then did nothing spiritual with them throughout the week
Thankful to be able to get away with some young men this weekend for a time of fellowship, discipleship and fun.
The courageous thing would have been to apologize for publishing such egregious slander against a godly woman and then fire anyone who green lit it in the first place.
A Note on the Elisabeth Elliot Article
Our editor in chief on why the piece was taken down and why it was republished.
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