The Great Separation

Book Review: 5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Son

(Guest Book Review by Peggy Paxton) - Vicki Courtney's book, 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son, is a must read for every mom. And I encourage every grandmom to read this very well done book. I have purchased five books to give to young mothers in my church; that's just how important I believe this book can be to a mom desiring to train up her son in the way he should go.

Vicki Courtney writes in an easy-going style as if she is having a one-on-one conversation with the reader. Her sense of humor causes the reader to smile or laugh out loud and lightens some heavy subject matter just enough to encourage the reader to keep reading and give serious thought to what is being discussed. Although Vicki includes statistics and quotes as she writes, one does not become bogged down in or tune out the writing.

I believe that any mom, with total dependance on God's guidance, can raise a godly son with only the Bible to use for her guide. But I also believe God has given Vicki Courtney wisdom and the gift of writing to give moms a resource to help them focus on 5 important issues in raising godly sons for these times.

These are the 5 conversations Vicki identifies a mother needs to have during her son's formative years:

• Don't define manhood by the culture's wimpy standards. It's OK to be a man!
• What you don't learn to conquer may become your master.
• Not everyone's doing it! (And other naked truths about sex you won't hear in the locker room.)
• Boyhood is only for a season. P.S. It's time to grow up!
• Godly men are in short supply. Dare to become one!

 

Churches and Pastors of America, Rise Up and Stand Tall.

The following is a letter given to me from my mother, a pastor's wife:

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We don't have to dig for examples of God's presence during the 9/11 events and the days and weeks that followed. We don't have to dig for those examples because they surfaced in so many ways during those days and the years since.

Now if we have leaders who are seeking ways to bury God's hand in our national life then we Christians must quietly stand up and take ourselves to our houses of worship this Sunday. We must worship the God who has preserved us and has given us hope. We must pray for forgiveness, for our leaders, for blessing and protection, for courage, and integrity and guidance.

Pastors - it is up to you to lead you congregations, to direct their thoughts and actions to the only hope we have as a people - to be in Christ living as "One Nation Under God."

We don't need TV cameras or political statements to be heard. We first need to physically create a huge wave of movement toward our churches on 9/11 and be found in humble prayer before our God.

II Chronicles 7:14

"if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."