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The task of bringing our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord is a task of enculturation. We are teaching and training, but it’s far more like coaching football or soccer than ...

https://tobyjsumpter.com/communion-as-christian-culture/

Acts 23:12-24 Prayer: Father, we live in a land that has hated young men, despising their strength and energy and refusing to train it, and so we are reaping a great whirlwind of despair and ang...

https://tobyjsumpter.com/the-potential-of-young-men/

How do you know the will of God? Many people refer to the will of God sort of flippantly. They imagine that the will of God is whatever they really want to do, whatever they were already planning...

https://tobyjsumpter.com/sean-marybeth/

In Ephesians 6, it says that fathers are to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The word for nurture is the word “paideia,” which means “culture.” Christian...

https://tobyjsumpter.com/parenting-as-coaching/

The Bible teaches that men are responsible for their households. Just as Christ took responsibility for us, even though our sins were not his fault, so too husbands take responsibility for their ...

https://tobyjsumpter.com/educating-daughters/

Red-pilling is the realization that you’ve been lied to, the world isn’t the way you were told. A bunch of what you thought was real was actually a sham, a scam, a facade. Satan is the father...

https://tobyjsumpter.com/red-pilling-christ/

Grace Agenda 2024 “Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD” (Ps. 144:15). IntroductionThe theme of this year’s conference is “Jolly ...

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IntroductionI missed all the fun my friends Eric Conn and James White had yesterday on the X, debating the implications of a screen shot summarizing Aristotle’s conception of “philia” – t...

https://tobyjsumpter.com/aristotle-eric-and-james/

IntroductionSo my friend Megan Basham’s book Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda has just dropped and the interwebs have gone up in a sheet of fla...

https://tobyjsumpter.com/gavin-ortlund-megan-basham-and-evangelical-climategate/

“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband” (Eph. 5:31). When the Bible gives husbands and wives in...

https://tobyjsumpter.com/defining-love-respect/