Feb 5, 2026 | Mark's Memos
Hebrews 12:5-11 talks about the chastening of the Lord and refers to parents disciplining their children. How should parents discipline their children in today’s culture? We should still discipline our children according to biblical standards but should do so with...
Jan 29, 2026 | Mark's Memos
In the last several weeks we’ve looked at the chastening of the Lord from Hebrews 12:5-11. That passage mentions parents, especially fathers, disciplining their children. This has become a far more complicated issue in today’s culture. Proper discipline today is...
Jan 22, 2026 | Mark's Memos
“Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” (Heb. 12:11) Chastening isn’t pleasant at the time, but, if we respond properly, it leads...
Jan 15, 2026 | Mark's Memos
“For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.” (Heb. 12:10) Parents discipline their children as seems best to them. They don’t always get it right. Sometimes parents discipline...
Jan 8, 2026 | Mark's Memos
“Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?” (Heb. 12:9) A good father properly disciplines His children. Not being properly disciplined by a...
Jan 1, 2026 | Mark's Memos
“If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.” (Heb. 12:7-8) God chastens (corrects,...
