Tim Challies offers another good recommendation for parents, “The Parenting Book Too Few Parents Read.” Acknowledging that rearing children in this culture is difficult, Challies encourages parents to tap the wisdom of experts, those who have already displayed success in this area of life. I believe that many parents fail …
In what has become a short series of articles (the first was on marriage; see here), Tim Challies offers “If Satan Wrote a Book on Parenting,” listing nineteen pieces of “advice” Satan might give parents about raising children in today’s world. With how plugged into this culture we tend to …
This essay, “Vain Repetitions,” appeared in CGG Weekly on June 1, 2012. “And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.” —Matthew 6:7 Some time ago, my family attended our nephew’s preschool graduation ceremony …
Originally “Marriage—A God-Plane Relationship (Part Four),” this essay was published in CGG Weekly on February 12, 2010. “Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table.” —Psalm 128:3 Psalm 128 illustrates how properly honoring and working …
Originally “Marriage—A God-Plane Relationship (Part Three),” this essay appeared in CGG Weekly on February 5, 2010. “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it . . ..’” —Genesis 1:28 Last time, we saw that it is God’s involvement that …
I wrote this essay, “The Importance of Parenting,” for the CGG Weekly on July 28, 2006. “And you, fathers [parents], do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” —Ephesians 6:4 Over the past few days, columnist John Derbyshire has …
This essay, titled “Why We Homeschool,” appeared in the CGG Weekly of July 14, 2006. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” —Proverbs 22:6 Back in the early years of the homeschooling phenomenon, its advocates were …
