PerryDox

Biblical truth standing on its spiritual head to get our eternal attention.

Perryism – If you were your children, would you want you as your parent?

| December 27, 2012

Ephesians 6:4 (HCSB) Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.਀ś

Ezra 10 – Marriage is a Three-fold Covenantal Contract

| September 24, 2012

Marriage is a threefold covenantal contract: personal, spiritual, and social. It is never just about me, it is about others. If I take the other spouse or children out of the equation, marriage fails and they suffer. If I take God out, I fail and everyone suffers. If I forget it is a social contract, [...]

1 Kings 14:1-18 – A Selfish Mother

| January 21, 2012

The words no mother wants to hear are stammered and whispered by the doctor. The word “mother” is synonymous with selflessness. Most women would immediately and easily choose to give their life to spare their child if the doctor said, “I can only save one.” Many mothers sacrifice not their lives, but a relationship with [...]

Luke 1-2 – How To Be A Godly Parent – The Example of Mary

| November 11, 2010

I love being a parent. No matter how dirty my truck gets, I can always blame it on the kids! But “scapegoating” our kids is not being a good parent…unfortunately! Do you ever think of how your parents raised you when dealing with your own children?  I know of a woman who whenever presented with [...]

Proverbs 25:11 – Ten Rules for Successful Communication with Families

| November 10, 2010

Have you ever been misunderstood?  Welcome to the human race! In fact, I would venture to say that men and women speak different languages, and then you throw in teenagers, and its language from another world. Let’s look at some examples. What does a man mean when he says, “Honey, you look fine.”

Luke 1:17 – Insane Sanity

| August 6, 2010

Kids keep us sane by driving us insane. In them we learn the sanity of world is the insanity of Satan. Maybe that is why the forerunner to Christ was “to turn the hearts of fathers to their children” (Lk.1:17). It is insane to trust like a little child. But my insane love for them [...]

Proverbs 31 – A Proverbs 31 Type of Family – Sermon

| May 9, 2010

A.        Husbands love to tell jokes about wives. Of course wives will say that their husbands can think of these jokes because they have more time on their hands! In this lesson, we will be discussing a very busy lady, the woman of Proverbs 31. But our study might diverge from the normal path because [...]

Proverbs 2-7 – My Children – Time Well Spent

| May 7, 2010

Yesterday was not a good day. Exhausted from a gospel meeting the previous week, I slept late that morning. Then working late to make up for the lost time, I didn’t get home until after 8:00 PM. My two daughters had left for a Bible Study and sleep over. Didn’t get to see them all [...]

Judges – The Seduction of Idolatry – Safety

| March 8, 2010

When reading the period of the Judges and Kings, one sad fact overwhelmingly – and even numbingly – is present: the draw of idolatry. How could God’s people, a nation dedicated to monotheism, not only falter and fall into idolatry, but repeatedly falter and fall?

2 Kings 2:2 – Show Yourself A Man

| March 8, 2010

We are living in an age where men are not men.  Instead they are grown up boys at best; or at worst, a hybrid asexual being despising true manhood as archaic.  Society encourages such a feminization of men.  Both the “grown up boy” and the “feminized male” are weak.  David told Solomon, “I am going [...]