I’m A Viking! (Sorta)

For my birthday in August Pam bought me one of those DNA tests where you can learn about your heritage by mailing in some spit. I’m not sure she’s as interested in my heritage as wondering, after 37 years of marriage, if there is some genetic mutation that would explain me to her. I have a friend who sent...

Naturally Clueless Parenting

Dad holding my brother Mickey and me, apparently before I had developed anything resembling a spine. Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, has this to say about Fatherhood: “Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late: if only I’d known then what I know...

Kidolatry: Growing Up in the Modern World

4th in the series, “Modern Family?” Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, April 24, 2016 In 2004, Dr. Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at UCLA, spent several months in Peru living among a tribe of about 12,000 people called the Matsigenka. This tribe lives along the Amazon. Now,...

Marriage in the Modern World

Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, April 10, 2016 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior....

From Biblical Family to Modern Family

Photo by © Can Stock Photo Inc. / goldenKB 1st in the series, “Modern Family?” Ephesians 5:21-6:9 Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, April 3, 2016 This morning we begin a series on the family, and we’ve given it the title of “Modern Family?” but with a question mark. What we are...