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If you want to raise a Pharisee, just follow these simple steps (sarcasm!). 1. Make the Christian home all about rule-keeping (do’s and don’t’s), but never explain to them why we should follow God’s Word. 2. Add your own rules to God’s Word and make them more important than God’s Word. 3. Strictly enforce the rules on your children, but give yourself a pass. 4. Show your children nothing about grace, forgiveness, mercy and love. 5. Preach at them until they are blue in the face (bore them with the Bible) and never listen to what they have to say about God’s Word. 6. Make Jesus a burden rather than a blessing – make God’s Word a bondage rather than a liberation. 7. Give them no opportunity to think spiritually for themselves. 8. Fail to guide them in a spiritual worldview – teaching them how to process life with the Bible. 9. Praise their externals regardless of their motives. 10. Teach them to obey only because they have to and not because they should also want to as God’s commands come from a loving and trustworthy Father. 11. Make your disciple punishment rather than correction. 12. Demand self-reformation, rather than pointing them to Christ-transformation by grace. 13. Teach them to obey you as God rather than to obey God by obeying you. 14. Use Scripture and church as punishment. 15. Never pray for them. 16. Correct them more than you encourage them. 17. Beat your kids into external conformity, often to simply make yourself look good and do nothing to shepherd their hearts.
Randy Smith

We are baptized into (not merely in) the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. When faith grasps the significance of baptism it dawns on us that we have been given the privilege of all privileges – fellowship with God. We are His, and He is ours – forever! His grace does not cleanse us from sin simply for its own sake, but to fit us for His company throughout the whole of our lives. So baptism announces to us the overwhelmingly great privilege of fellowship with the triune covenant-making and covenant-keeping God. And because baptism symbolizes this, it calls us to a new life-style marked by ongoing repentance and faith.
Sinclair Ferguson

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    1 ויען בלדד השחי ויאמר׃
    2 עד אנה תשימון קנצי למלין תבינו ואחר נדבר׃
    3 מדוע נחשבנו כבהמה נטמינו בעיניכם׃
    4 טרף נפשו באפו הלמענך תעזב ארץ ויעתק צור ממקמו׃
    5 גם אור רשעים ידעך ולא יגה שביב אשו׃
    6 אור חשך באהלו ונרו עליו ידעך׃
    7 יצרו צעדי אונו ותשליכהו עצתו׃
    8 כי שלח ברשת ברגליו ועל שבכה יתהלך׃
    9 יאחז בעקב פח יחזק עליו צמים׃
    10 טמון בארץ חבלו ומלכדתו עלי נתיב׃
    11 סביב בעתהו בלהות והפיצהו לרגליו׃
    12 יהי רעב אנו ואיד נכון לצלעו׃
    13 יאכל בדי עורו יאכל בדיו בכור מות׃
    14 ינתק מאהלו מבטחו ותצעדהו למלך בלהות׃
    15 תשכון באהלו מבלי לו יזרה על נוהו גפרית׃
    16 מתחת שרשיו יבשו וממעל ימל קצירו׃
    17 זכרו אבד מני ארץ ולא שם לו על פני חוץ׃
    18 יהדפהו מאור אל חשך ומתבל ינדהו׃
    19 לא נין לו ולא נכד בעמו ואין שריד במגוריו׃
    20 על יומו נשמו אחרנים וקדמנים אחזו שער׃
    21 אך אלה משכנות עול וזה מקום לא ידע אל׃
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