Be fruitful and MULTIPLY!

I was glancing through my husband's e-mail when I saw a friend had e-mailed him a link to a sermon that looked interesting. I listened to it just now as I did the dishes. WOW. Voddie Baucham was preaching to pastors, not moms, but I was was encouraged as a mother. He exhorted the pastors to embrace a biblical worldview of youth ministry:
1. Parents are responsible for evangelizing and discipling their children, not church youth groups. It is the role of the church to equip and encourage the parents.
2. Children are a blessing and, as pastors, they should encourage and bless large families.

The message is called The Centrality of the Home. Here is the information about it on his website:

In February of 2006, a group of more than 1,000 pastors and church leaders gathered for the Southern Baptist of Texas State Evangelism Conference in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. During the second night of the conference Voddie Baucham, who had preached at the previous year's conference, was called upon to stand in for Dr. Tim LaHaye who had become ill a few days earlier. No one was ready for what happened next.

In a message State Director of Evangelism, Don Cass called "Truly Prophetic," Voddie Baucham set the auditorium ablaze. The challenge he issued cut straight to the heart of the crisis in contemporary Evangelicalism.

This message has since been heard around the world. Emails from Singapore, Australia, Southern Africa and Central Europe have flooded in along with those from the United States as God uses this message to shake the foundations of ministries, institutions and individuals alike.