Family
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[Episode 66] Family Friendly Entertainment (guest: Robert Hatfield) [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Hatfield_Entertainment.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS(Player not displaying or working? Click here.) Entertainment is not bad in itself, but Christians are to be discerning in all they do. How can we, and our families, enjoy entertainment when there seems to be so little of it to be found? Robert Hatfield joins Adam on this week’s podcast to talk about the dangers of entertainment, as well as how to find wholesome forms of entertainment. Resources The Light Network (homepage) The Light Network Facebook group Arrows in Our Hand (family podcast) Common Sense Media Plugged In More from A Legacy of Faith To subscribe to A Legacy of Faith by…
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I Vote for Moms
This is the last week of this presidential election. For the past few weeks, I have heard the candidates speak about all of the world’s problems. I’ve heard their plans for all of our country’s problems. They’ve expressed concern for one area after another, and they’ve laid out the solutions. As I’ve listened, there has been one solution that hasn’t been discussed – Good mothers! So, today I vote for moms. I vote for moms who take the phone or iPad out of their children’s hands and replace it with a broom. These children will learn how to work hard. I vote for moms who quit buying everything for their…
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A Christian’s Open Letter to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
To Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, We are down now to just a few days until all this campaigning is over. Let me say, first of all, congratulations. I honestly do not know how you hold up, physically or mentally, through these endless weeks of campaigning. It is impressive and shows your dedication to winning this election. But in just a few days, all that will be over. One of you will be our president-elect and will move to the next phase of this process, preparing to lead our nation, beginning in 2017. I want you to know that I am a Christian. That frames everything I believe, say, and…
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3 Reasons Why Men Struggle in Relationships
God made man for relationships. One of the first observations about Adam in Genesis is that God saw that it was not good for man to be alone. So he made the woman – man’s perfect complement. It was God’s desire that one man and one woman live together in a marriage filled with love, commitment, companionship, sacrifice, and hope. Why is it, then, that relationships are so complicated? The easy answer is that they involve people and people are fallible, weak creatures – immature and in need of experience and sometimes even struggles in order to mature and grow. A more complex answer is that even though men and…
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Some Thoughts in the Midst of a “Perfect Storm”
I suppose that it was what some call “a perfect storm” that has prompted this post. Here are some of the elements in that storm. The gospel meeting we had recently where I am one of the preachers. During this meeting, our son and son-in-law shared the preaching and song leading duties. That reminded me that neither one of them is a “kid preacher” any longer – if they ever were. Both of them are grown, mature men who are capable of leading people to Jesus. It gave me confidence that the cause of Christ will not suffer when some of us older ones are no longer able to preach. It may, in fact, be…
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We Are at War
“We are at war.” On this day, October 27, in 1962, those words were ones many Americans feared. It was on this date that the Cuban Missile Crisis tensions “reached their height.” [For those in our family who are wondering how I came by this historical knowledge, I can read the Internet, you know.] ☺ Even though I wasn’t alive then, I’m sure had those words–“We are at war”–been reported, people would have paid attention! That said, on this October 27, in 2016, we are at war. Did that get your attention? We are at war! Not in a physical sense, but in a war that matters much more than who…
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Only One
We recently had a gospel meeting where I preach. Both our son and our son-in-law “traded” the preaching and song leading responsibilities. During that meeting and on a night when our son was doing the preaching, one of our granddaughters was baptized. I cannot express how my wife and I felt as we watched our son baptize his daughter. However, as special as this was to our family, this is not about us – or her. It is about the value of one soul. I find it interesting that I listened to a recording of one of the sessions from this year’s Polishing the Pulpit a few days before our gospel meeting started. I…
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Episode 65: How the Church Can Help Parents Raise Pure Children (guest: Jeff Archey) [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Jeff_Archey_on_Purity.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS(Player not displaying or working? Click here.) We live in times in which impurity is everywhere, but Christian parents want to raise children who are pure and holy. But parents need all the help they can get! On this week’s podcast, Jeff Archey sits down with Adam to talk about how preachers, Bible school teachers, and the entire congregation can have a hand in helping young people grow up pure in an impure world. Links Mentioned in This Episode East Side Church of Christ (Cleveland, TN; where Jeff Archey preaches) Gospel Broadcasting Network Polishing the Pulpit The Ark Encounter KidSing cards (West Huntsville…
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It is Not a Decision Until…
Leadership, according to a book title by the late and beloved Wendell Winkler is “the crisis of our time.” In response to that mindset, there is a whole industry rising up, and if you tried to read all the books or listen to all the podcasts being produced about leadership today you would never finish. In the midst of that information, though, the major principles are typically quite basic. It is one of those that I want to think about in this post. That is: what constitutes a decision? The easy answer to that question is, “We decided to do something.” And you may think that’s the end of the post.…
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On What to Wear in Worship
For pretty much my whole life, I have heard people fuss about what to wear to Sunday worship. I trust that this one blog article will not settle things, but I do want us all to think through some of the more common “arguments,” and see if they are really helpful. The “Wear Your Best” Argument Regularly, I hear people say that we should wear our best to worship. Often, this is followed by some story of a grandparent or uncle who “only had one pair of overalls, but he would wash those things and wear them every Sunday, because they were the best he had.” I think there is some…
