The moment Thea LaFond's 🇩🇲 brother found out his sister had just won Dominica's first ever Olympic Gold. 🥺🥇
Her brother Chreign Lafond is a defensive end for @NavyFB#Paris2024
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Ramaphosa: #Cop28
They want to see me give you this. This is SA's Just Energy Transition Implementation Plan, to show our level of seriousness.
Guterres (UN SG):
You are the first.
Ramaphosa:
Thank you.
Trauma makes you feel like you're responsible for other people's moods so you drain yourself and make sure they feel okay. Healing makes you realize it's not your responsibility to regulate their emotions, manage their insecurities, heal their wounds, and calm their inner storms.
Train Your Children to be Faithful in Attending Church by J.C. Ryle
Train them to be faithful and regular in attending church and the Lord’s Supper.
Tell them of the duty and privilege of going to Church, and joining in the prayers of the congregation.
Tell them that wherever the Lord's people are gathered together, there the Lord Jesus is present in a special way, and that those who are absent must expect, like the Apostle Thomas, to miss out on a blessing. Tell them of the importance of hearing the Word of God preached, and that it is God's ordained way of converting, sanctifying, and building up the souls of men. Tell them how the Apostle Paul commands us not to "give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but to encourage one another—and all the more as we see the Day approaching." [Hebrews 10:25]
It is a sad sight in a church when nobody comes to the Lord's Table but the older people, and the young men and the young women all turn away. But it is a sadder sight still when no children are to be seen in a church, except those who come to the Sunday School, and are often obliged to attend. Let none of this guilt lie at your doors. There are many boys and girls in every city, besides those who come to Sunday School, and you who are their parents and friends should see to it that they come with you to church.
Do not allow them to grow up with a habit of making vain excuses for not coming. Make them clearly understand, that so long as they are under your roof, it is the rule of your house for every one in good health to honor the Lord on the Lord's day, and that you believe that the healthy person who refuses to go to church on the Lord’s Day brings great harm to his soul.
Also see to it, if it can be arranged, that your children go with you to church, and sit near you when they are there. To go to church is one thing, but to behave well at church is quite another. And believe me, there is no guarantee for good behavior like that of having them under your own watchful eye.
The minds of young people are easily distracted, and their attention lost, and every possible means should be used to counteract this. I do not like to see them coming to church by themselves—they often get into bad company, and so learn more evil on the Lord's day than in all the rest of the week. Neither do I like to see what I call "a young people's corner" in a church. They often catch habits of inattention and irreverence there, which it takes years to unlearn, if they are ever unlearned at all. What I like to see is a whole family sitting together, old and young, side by side—men, women, and children, serving God as a family.
Parents, comfort your minds with these examples. Do not be discouraged because your children do not see the full value of church and the Lord’s Supper now. Just train them to have a habit of regular attendance. Set it before their minds as a high, holy, and solemn duty, and believe me, the day will very likely come when they will bless you for your efforts.
Comsider, Christian, the wonder of positional righteousness:
You are in Christ.
You are definitively sanctified.
You are justified by faith.
You are saved.
You are bound for glory.
You are adopted by the Father.
All these are true today—none of them will ever change.
WOW.