Passing on a heritage

Mathew Henrys commentary. It’s a classic.

In 2004 at the San Antonio Christian film festival someone did a documentary on his Father, Phillip Henry. It was called “Broad Oak: a fathers Legacy.” Mathew Henry didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. Here was a father who in being faithful, laid the foundation for what his son would do. Time to get it out and watch it again, as I remember, it was very good. Don’t know if its available separate. We saw it as a part of the 2004 film festival collection. Its takes place in the 1600’s, could be part of Reformation night?

From Swanson back in aug8 Will Your Chidren Apostisize? Grounding them in the faith.

This was a good show encouraging the use of a catechism to teach the faith to your kids. Its the reformation way. A catechism systematizes the faith. It helps you lay the most important over arching themes of the faith and then fills out a skeleton that can be built upon.

Dads if you haven’t done one yet with your kids be encouraged to do it. I would call it a foundational building block for discipling a new believer even. It was a great help to me when Rob passed them out at church and encouraged us to do them with our kids a year ago or so. Fourty years in the faith and church and when I went through that little book what a blessing it was to me. “Hey look an over arching theme to my faith, who knew?”