Dear Jay...

This piece is a letter that was written to Jay, whom I had been in contact with for about five years. Our communication began when he was on the evangelism committee at the Loveland Protestant Reformed Church. One of the main reasons for my correspondence with the evangelism committee was to have oversight of what I was teaching the men in the prison I was in. This letter was written two years prior to my release from prison and was, in part, intended to recount what the Lord had been doing through my evangelism efforts that were primarily hour-and-a-half-long lectures every Saturday morning. Most of this is in the first part of the letter. Jay, at the time of the writing of this letter, was the administrator of the Loveland Protestant Reformed Christian School, so the main body of the letter is an exposition of the first eight verses of Psalm 78, meant to encourage him and the teachers in their calling to instruct the children in the light of the Word of God. In the exposition is given some reasons for this instruction and some suggestions for how to apply it to the various subjects taught, such as math, literature, English, science, and so on. As an exposition, it follows the text in order and has strong emphasis on the necessity of this in the preservation of the covenant seed in the line of generations.2