Most Christian children today have never seen their dad open a Bible to lead their family in a time reading and prayer. The idea of “family worship” is completely foreign in most Christian homes today. And even when their is a desire, very often parents feel inadequate or awkward. That’s understandable. One Year Dinner Table [...]
Home & Family
"He that is the master of a family, he has, as under that relation, a work to do for God; the right governing of his own family... As touching the spiritual state of his family; he should be very diligent and circumspect, doing his utmost endeavor both to increase faith where it is begun, and to begin it where it is not. For this reason, he should diligently and frequently lay before his household such things of God, out of his word, as are suitable for each particular... Further, we find also in the New Testament, that they are looked upon as Christians of an inferior rank that have not a due regard to this duty; yes, so inferior as not fit to be chosen to any office in the church of God." ~ John Bunyan, Family Duty
A Topical Reference Guide for Biblical Child-Training
This book, For Instruction in Righteousness, will help you use the Bible every time you discipline your children! For Instruction in Righteousness is a topical Bible for parents. It includes hundreds of verses on over 50 areas of sin. But it is more than just a topical Bible! Each chapter includes the following listings: What [...]
Marriage Matters: Extraordinary Change Through Ordinary Moments
Your marriage can grow in intimacy and trust, even as you deal with the everyday irritations and conflicts that all couples experience. Winston T. Smith helps couples see those disagreements as opportunities to face the underlying issues that destroy intimacy and to grow closer as they rely on God to sacrificially love each other. Marriage [...]
Teaching Your Children to Pray
Parents, if you love your children, do all that lies within your power to train them to have a habit of prayer. Show them how to begin. Tell them what to say. Encourage them to persevere. Remind them that if they become careless and slack about it…. Believe me, if you never hear your children [...]
Why Does Marriage Exist?
The ultimate thing we can say about marriage is that it exists for God’s glory. That is, it exists to display God. Now we see how: Marriage is patterned after Christ’s covenant relationship to His redeemed people, the church. And therefore, the highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the [...]
The Eternal Welfare of our Children
The man who does not make the eternal welfare of his children, the supreme end of all his conduct towards them, may profess to believe as a Christian – but he certainly acts as an Atheist! It is in the highest degree inconsistent, absurd, cruel, and wicked – for a Christian parent not to be [...]
How Can You Provoke Your Child Into Anger
John MacArthur had some excellent thoughts on provoking our children to anger, “Don’t just teach your children external self-control; train them to understand temptation and resist it. Don’t just teach them manners; teach them why pride is sinful and why greed, lust, selfishness, and covetousness dishonor God. Punish them for external offenses, but teach them [...]
Adam, Husband, Father…Where are you?
When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden and God came to call them to account, it didn’t matter that Eve had sinned first. God said, “Adam, where are you?” (Gen. 3:9). That’s God’s word to the family today: Adam, husband, father, where are you? If something is not working right at [your home] and [...]
The Word of God, not our Opinions, is the Final Authority in Raising Children
In His Word, God has given us a basic philosophy of child raising. In the Scriptures He has delineated for us the goals, the plans, the strategy, the standards by which we should raise our children. We do not need to shoot from the hip, we do not need to fly by the seat of [...]
Sin Ruined the Beauty of Headship & Submission
Even in the days when people commonly stayed married “til death do us part,” there has never been a generation whose view of marriage was high enough, says Pastor John Piper. And today, when the doctrine of “headship” and “submission” are greatly misunderstood and maligned, Piper has some excellent thoughts for every Christian to consider: [...]
Dealing with Disobedience: Excerpt from The Duties of Parents by J.C. Ryle
You will see many in this day who allow their children to choose and think for themselves long before they are able, and even make excuses for their disobedience, as if it were a thing not to be blamed. To my eyes, a parent always yielding, and a child always having its own way, are [...]
Fathers, If You Fail to Teach Your Children the Devil Will
If you fail, father, to teach your son to fear God, the devil will teach him to hate God. If you fail to teach your son to guard his mind, the devil will gladly teach him to have an open mind. If you fail to teach your son to obey his parents, the devil will teach him [...]
49 Godly Character Qualities
This is an excellent list of godly character qualities to use as you prayerfully shepherd the hearts of your children to Christlikeness. Remember, however, our goal as Christian parents is not moralism or behaviorism. These character qualities are a reflection of the new man, a regenerate heart. So as you see deficiency in your children [...]
Family Driven Faith by Voddie Baucham
As I type this the kids are hurrying around the house getting ready for the Saturday morning sessions of the Family Driven Faith Conference. This is such a treat! A few weeks ago my wife and I were able to attend the Alliance Defense Fund Academy in California and spend the entire week with Voddie [...]
The Best Children’s Bible Study Books & Bible Lessons for Kids
It’s hard to exaggerate the importance of teaching our children to read. And introducing them to God’s word and the wonderful truths of the Bible at an early age is the greatest gift we can give our children. I’m often asked about good books to use for children’s Bible study or Bible lessons for kids. [...]
The What, When, and How of Family Worship
Few of us who grew up in homes that practiced family worship. Here are a few practical helps that may aid our families in this journey I found in a recent post at the Gospel Coalition. Learn more about Family Worship The Family Worship Book by Terry Johnson Family Worship: In the Bible, in History [...]
Legacy: Getting Your House in Order Video by Voddie Baucham
“Getting Your House in Order” is the second part in a two-part series entitled Legacy by Dr. Voddie Baucham, author of Family Driven Faith and What He Must Be: If He Wants to Marry My Daughter. “What legacy will you leave your children? Your grandchildren? Will you be remembered for the wealth and possessions you [...]
11 Reasons to Worship with Your Family
Today I read a wonderful post by Jason Helopoulos about family worship. I thought I would share the “meat” with you. I trust it encourages you to begin a consistent, daily time of prayer and Bible reading in your own home as you worship together as a family. Learn more about Family Worship Family Worship [...]
The Special Duties of Husbands to their Wives by Richard Baxter
He that will expect duty or comfort from his wife, must be faithful in doing the duty of a husband. The failing of yourselves in your own duty, may cause the failing of another to you, or at least in some other way as much afflict you, and will be bitterer to you in the [...]
Duties of Husband and Wife: Part I by John Dod and Robert Cleaver
Excerpted from John Dod and Robert Cleaver’s A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements, a standard English Puritan treatment of the ten commandments, first published in 1603 and not reprinted since 1635. So much for their duties that be further off from equality in the family, as parents and children, masters and servants. [...]
Duties of Husband and Wife: Part II by John Dod and Robert Cleaver
Now follow the special duties of an husband, for he hath not all these privileges for nothing, and those consist in two major points, in governing her wisely (by cohabitation and edification) and in performing all due benevolence. First, for cohabitation. The first duty of the husband is to dwell with his wife, that sith [...]
Duties of Husbands and Wives by Richard Steele
A Modern Abridgment and Paraphrase by D. Scott Meadows ‘Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.’ (Ephesians 5:33) Marriage is the foundation of all society, and so this topic is very important. Explaining marital duties to you [...]
Directives for Avoiding Dissension in the Home by Richard Baxter
It is a great duty of husbands and wives to live in quietness and peace, and avoid all occasions of wrath and discord. Because this is a duty of so great importance, I shall first open to you the great necessity of it, and then give you more particular directions to perform it. (1) Your [...]
Biblical Principles for Solving Problems in the Home by Brian Schwertley
We live in a time of great marital discord and family disintegration. At the beginning of the twentieth century the divorce rate in America was under ten percent. By 1983 the divorce rate was just under fifty percent (the divorce rate has stood near fifty percent ever since the early 1980s). One would expect that [...]
The Apostolic Constitutions and Spiritual Leadership in the Family by Kerry Ptacek
The Apostolic Constitutions is a collection of early church law dated by scholars as being predominantly from the second or third century, with only a few additions from the fourth and fifth centuries. We need not accept the claim of the Constitutions to apostolic authorship, although that was the view of the church of that [...]
