Next May 5, Highlands Study Center will sponsor a historic conference featuring the father and sons teams of Drs. R.C. Sproul, Sr. and Jr., and the Honorable Howard Phillips and his son Douglas (yours truly). The conference is titled, “Generations: Giving Honor to Whom Honor is Due.”

I am simply thrilled to have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring messages on the biblical doctrine of honor and multi-generational faithfulness with my father, R.C., Jr., and his esteemed dad. What a blessing!

R.C.’s welcome vision for this conference serves the body of Christ by addressing one of the defining issues of our generation. And the timing for such a conference could not be better. Either we will learn to follow what the Bible says about the Fifth Commandment in our capacity as sons, fathers, mothers, daughters, churchmen, and citizens — or it will never “be well with us” and we will not live long in the land which God has given to us.

As has been previously noted on this blog, we live at a time of tremendous antithesis:

On the one hand, movements external to the church to develp a culture of selfish radical individualism, and movements within the church to make the church relevant by eliminating distinctions with the world, have not only savaged the Christian family, but transformed the world-worshipping evangelical church in America into a generation which has actually made dishonor into a virtue. One need not look long or hard to see that we live at a time when the biblical doctrines of honor, multi-generational faithfulness, and Christian fatherhood are not only savagely under attack from the world, but openly mocked by professing Christians whose syncretistic quest for cultural relevency and open embrace of post-modernism has led them to dedicate tremendous time and energy belittling parents and children committed to honoring Christ through a proper application of the Fifth Commandment.

On the other hand, the last verse of the Old Testament and the Scriptures heralding the coming of John the Baptist in the New Testament, reveal the principle that when fathers do turn their hearts to their children and children to their fathers, we have reason for great hope that God is making a people ready for the Lord. The emphasis on generational fatherhood through principles of biblical patriarchy; the massive revival of parent-directed daily, walk-along, talk-along education; the recognition that children are a highly prized blessing and reward of the Lord, the happy return of the Christian father to his place of headship, and the Christian mother to her status as helpmeet and keeper of the home; when motivated by hearts desiring to please Jesus Christ, are indicia of a Holy Spirit revival in a Christian culture savaged by feminism, evolutionism, humanism, and the many other isms which began en masse to infect our nation in the nineteenth century, and dominated the twentieth.

Make sure to mark your calendars for this special event, and click here for more information.