For parents who value the salvation of their children above and beyond everything else, there’s nothing more pleasing than to hear a child say, “Daddy/Mummy, I would like to be saved”. Yet, precisely because the eternal welfare of their children is so important, parents can so easily – in all sincerity – respond in a […]
Author and preacher Franklin Ferguson (1866-1957) from New Zealand, who for 30 years edited The Treasury magazine, wrote a helpful article on the vital subject of “the family altar”, a term once widely employed to describe the habit of Christian families reading and praying together daily. His exhortations provide wise counsel for 21st century families […]
One of the most challenging and inspiring books I have ever read is the 500-page biography of the Scottish missionary John G. Paton’s (1824-1907). Paton brought the saving gospel of Jesus Christ to the cannibals of the New Hebrides, now called Vanuatu, in the South Seas. He saw hundreds delivered from the most depraved practices of which […]
I hope that this title will not only arrest your attention but encourage you to take the time to read and meditate on all 17 points of this vital essay by J. C. Ryle (1816-1900). Educated at Eton and Oxford University, the notable Victorian evangelical J.C. Ryle eventually became the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool. The supremely […]
Which Bible verse best expresses the opposite of Ephesians 6:4: “Bring [children] up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord”? Bearing in mind that nurture and admonition express all that is involved in the training and discipline of children, Proverbs 29:15 is probably the closest: “A child left to himself bringeth his mother to […]