Chart: Marriage, Family and the Home
Here’s a handy A4 chart outlining what the New Testament teaches about marriage, family and the home. Click here for a PDF copy or click on the chart below to open up a large jpeg copy:
Category Archives: Family Matters
Gender Theorist and Author Changes His Mind
Christopher Dummitt, an historian of culture and politics, and an associate professor at Trent University’s School for the Study of Canada, was until recently a believer in and promoter of the new idea that gender is just a societal construct, and that biological sex does not determine ‘who you are’. This is the lie that […]
My Child Wants to be Saved. What Should I Do?
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 […]
The Family Altar
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 […]
The Immeasurable Influence of Godly Parents
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 […]
Possibly the Best Article on Child Rearing Ever Written
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 […]
Tools for Effective Child Rearing
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 […]