Time to man up

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." - 1 Corinthians 13:11 

It's been a while since I posted on Tug's Life. It is Monday, October 12, 2009, at 11:55 PM. I tried going to bed early (early for me) but couldn't go to sleep. I normally stay up till 1:30 or 2:00 at night studying until my eyes glaze over. Then I stick the ear buds in my ears and go to sleep listening to a sermon on my Mp3 player. I usually make it through about 15 minutes of a sermon and fall asleep. Some nights I get so excited about the sermon that I lay awake and listen to the whole thing though. But, tonight I was lying there listening to a great sermon by Pastor Sexton and my stomach wasn't feeling too great so I just got up, fixed me a cheese sandwich (yes that calms my stomach) and thought I'd study or blog, or work on my upcoming Coffee & Christ meeting that I'm having at church next month. As you can tell, I'm starting out by blogging.

I've got a lot of stuff going on lately. As I mentioned in my last post, I started my second Seminary course, Advanced New Testament, and that takes up most of my spare time. Of course 10 hours of my day is spent driving to work, working at the office, and driving back home. My job is extremely stressful and by quitting time I'm usually at my breaking point. I won't say anything negative about my occupation because I am grateful to be employed so lets just leave it at that... Church work takes up a lot of time as well but it is something that I love and enjoy and feel is meaningful.

For a long time I have had a huge burden for the families of our church and community. I look around on Sunday mornings and see so many empty pews and my heart breaks for those folks that don't seem to place church very high on their list of important things to do. They say they are Christians, and they join the church and say they belong to the church but yet you never see them. Some of these folks have children that are not saved. Those are the ones I worry about the most. As bad as our world has become (especially under the current president) families need Christ in their lives more than ever. They need the basic building blocks and a firm foundation to stand on. According to my Bible, the man is the head of the household (Ephesians 5:22-33). As I have posted and preached, it is the man's responsibility to see that his family follows the Biblical commandment to worship God and read the Scriptures (Deuteronomy 6:1-9). This is where men have to stand up and be men. It's time to quit messing around and being wishy-washy. The responsibility that men have to their families should be the most important thing in our lives other than our personal relationship with Christ. I can say this with full authority. There was a time in my life that I lost sight of that and nearly saw my family destroyed. It can happen to you before you know it. It is only by God's grace that we were able to survive. I don't want to see others make the same mistakes.

Our children today need a strong Christian upbringing so they know the difference between right and wrong. When the President of the United States doesn't even know right from wrong by the way he embraces sodomy, sodomites, murder, alcoholism, anti-Christianity, and no telling what else, we are in deep, grave danger. That's why we men must take control of our families, bring our children to church, teach them Scripture and give them the armor necessary to stand and fight for their lives.

So there you have my little mini sermon for the night. I knew there was a reason I couldn't go to sleep!