8/31/17

This past week my wife and I attended the ERLC 2017 Parenting Conference.  If you look it up online you can watch pretty much all of the sessions we were blessed to take part in.  There were many good speakers who were pointing parents back to staying the course in their parenting as well as keeping the focus on the Gospel.  There was a general admission that our World is getting more wicked by the day, and that the availability of evil at the fingertips of the kids is almost overwhelming.  While we were gone we also visited our second oldest son in Athens, Tennessee.  We were blessed to attend church on Sunday and were almost more blessed by the sermon we heard then the prior three days at the parenting conference.  I would like to share the information that would allow you to listen to the sermon we were blessed to hear.  If you get online and look up Cornerstone Church of Knoxville, and go to sermons, find the one for 8/27/17 it was a guest speaker named CJ Mahaney.  Listen to his sermon on 1 Peter and sufferings...it should leave all of you VERY encouraged!  I was blown away with the words of encouragement.  So, we are back in the saddle, running parenting classes tonight, I'll start back in on giving parenting counsel and we will fight this fight together.  Please listen to the sermon!  Let me know if it blessed you.

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