John Hughes in “Why Christian Education and not Secular Indoctrination” in Think Biblically asks this thought-provoking question:
To what extent do most Christian parents take purposeful steps to get to know the character quality of the teacher in classroom of their son or daughter? At the elementary educational level, their child will spend more time being [...]
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Your child’s teacher
Posted in family, tagged children, education, school on August 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Discipling our children
Posted in family, tagged parenting, children, discipling on August 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Rick Phillips offers this excellent article on discipling our children. Here is the summary:
What do I mean by discipling our children? Ted Tripp put it this way in his excellent book, Shepherding a Child’s Heart: Discipling is “the process of your children embracing the things of God as their own living faith… to see your [...]
Don’t waste your kids
Posted in audio/video, family, tagged parenting, Rebelution on July 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Gregg Harris, who spoke at the Rebelution conference, gave an outstanding message on parenting at Covenant LIfe Church last Sunday and my family and I listened to it the last couple of days. His text was Psalm 127 which speaks about the children of a godly man. Children are both a heritage from the Lord, [...]
Lessons to teach your sons #1
Posted in family, manhood, tagged manhood, Iwo Jima, battles, vision forum on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Our family is listening to a series by Scott Brown entitled Bible Lessons from the Battlefield of My Father’s Youth.
The first CD is an interview between Scott and his son David as they talk about Scott’s father Bill who fought in World War II as a fighter pilot and especially lessons that Scott’s dad passed [...]
Making life-changing decisions
Posted in Christian life, family, tagged Decisions on July 9, 2008 | No Comments »
How do you make life-transforming decisions? I am talking about important ones regarding your marriage, finances, child-rearing, and spiritual issues. Here are five options or paths we take:
Ignore them as long as possible
Wait until you get motivated to action
Look for an experience to motivate you into action (search for that mountain top experience)
Wait until God [...]
Decisions men must make
Posted in family, manhood on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
I listened to a seminar recently by Bob Welch and he challenged men (young and old) about the decisions of life they must make. No decision in these areas is still a decision. These are not easy questions to answer. They require Bible-saturated thought, earnest prayer, and wise counsel. If you haven’t thought through these [...]
Boys and video games
Posted in family, tagged boys, douglas bond, stand for truth, video games on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Douglas Bond, author of Fathers and Sons: Stand Fast in the Way of Truth addresses the incredible amount of time boys are spending on video gaming.
According to a Michigan State University survey, boys spend twice as much time playing video games as girls: twenty-three hours a week glued to the computer monitor playing virtual games, [...]
Questions for godly parenting
Posted in family, tagged parenting on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Here are some excellent questions that came out of a parenting talk at Covenant Life Church in MD. Very thought-provoking and convicting.
1. Do you have a clearly defined biblical vision for the convictions you want your children to possess when they are grown? Are there any cultural values you are prone [...]
Do you know?
Posted in family, tagged worldview on June 8, 2008 | No Comments »
“Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?” Really? –Del Tackett
And if you really believe it, why do you not act like it? For example, if I really believed that every time I prayed that God the Father was eager to listen to me speak with him, why do [...]
Boys adrift
Posted in family, manhood, tagged boys, manhood on June 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Challies writes about how our view of boys and young men have changed societally. Here is a full review of the book Boys Adrift which highlight five major reasons boys in this generation are different than those of just a generation ago. Dr. Al Mohler also highly recommends this book. Challies ends with [...]
