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Promises. God has designed each family to be a culture with a language, customs, traditions,

and countless unspoken assumptions. The culture of the family intimately shapes the children

who grow up in it. It is the duty of the father to ensure that the shaping takes place

according to Biblical wisdom. You can now listen to Standing on the Promises by Douglas

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John Piper in the Fire in the Attic. February 15, 2021. The best book of devotional theology

I have ever read was God is the Gospel by John Piper. The first time I read it, as soon as

I was done, I went back to the first page and started right over again. It is simply a fantastic

book. And then, apropos of nothing in particular, I started reading it again the other day, and they

are right at the beginning. Piper puts his finger on the central problem with all this woke stuff.

The best thing about the book is that he was not writing about politics or cultural engagement

or anything like that. It was simply pastoral theology of the kind that identifies the central shifts

innovations of the sinful heart undertakes when confronted with glory of God in the face of Christ,

and yet there it was to keep everything right on the surface, lying in the path.

What is it that keeps us from seeing and savoring the Christ of all saving grace?

And as a direct consequence of this blindness, what is it that is stirring up record levels

of racial enmity in our day? The answer to this most relevant question is sin.

Sin is the culprit, sin is doing this. And what is the sin in question? The sin is the flat

refusal to see that Christ is the only way to any kind of true glory, and the consequent and vain

glorious demand that everything in the cosmos outside of you, God included, must cater to you,

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