Category: Parenting
Motives for a Holy and Careful Education of Children
Editor’s Note: Richard Baxter recognized the fact that conversion is God’s work, not man’s. He also recognized that children sometimes reject even the best biblical instruction and training. The strong language in the following piece is not directed toward those parents who have diligently instructed and...
Our Goals as Grandparents
It hardly seemed possible just a few years ago, but we are suddenly grandparents. Don’t get me wrong; they weren’t unexpected. The grandchildren were all preceded by courtship and engagement and weddings and honeymoons (and yes, at least nine more months). It’s also not like we...
Comfort for Christian Parents of Unconverted Children
All Christian parents wish that God would show us something to do that would secure our child’s salvation, and then “we’ll do it with all our might” because we love our child so much. Yet, God has not made salvation the effect of somebody else’s faith;...
Children, Obey Your Parents
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.Ephesians 6:1 Children have become experts these days at stretching and re-interpreting the words of Ephesians 6:1. The result has been to redefine various forms of rebellion as obedience. Even worse, parents have all too often...
Can You Let Them Go? When Kids Want to Serve God Away From Home
Trevor Johnson, missionary to Papua New Guinea, is adjusting to the tribal missionary lifestyle. In recent days he and his family have gone through dengue fever, malaria, scabies and other parasites, plus “jungle gut.” In his recent letter he said things were looking much better now,...
Back to School for the Glory of God
When I was in school, summer vacation always went too fast. Somehow three months off felt like only three weeks, and suddenly I found myself standing in the school supplies aisle at Wal-Mart anticipating the beginning of another year. As I reflect back on my schooling,...
Are You Rearing an Angry Child?
Who of us has not looked at a child of ours and said, “Unless the Lord does something with that temper, this kid is headed for the penitentiary?” But God has done something. He has given your child parents. And we are to act biblically for...
Adoption as Basic Christianity
James would be surprised that we now have what some have called an “adoption movement” in our country. When he wrote, “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27), he...
The Hardest Change So Far
Life has led us through deep waters of painful transition but a few times. The latest (and most difficult thus far) is at flood stage. The birth of our first child initially launched us into the rough seas of change. Her profound retardation, blindness and a...
What They Did Before TV
My mother was the youngest of fourteen children growing up on a farm in the first part of the last century. The old home place burned down when she was a girl. It was a typical Southern house divided into a boys’ room, a girls’ room,...
