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...

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...

“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...

“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...

“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...

“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,...

“And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives." (Heb. 12:5-6;...

After exhorting us to run with the endurance the race of faith (Heb. 12:1), and to keep our eyes on Jesus (Heb. 12:2), the author of Hebrews writes: “For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in...

“looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Heb. 12:2) Hebrews 12:1 exhorts us to run with endurance in the race...

“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” (Heb. 12:1) In light of the previous examples in...