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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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,…
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…
Family worship led by the male head of the household was in decline among Presbyterians in the latter half of the 19th century. Nevertheless, many strong statements on family worship…
Many Christians are familiar with Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible. That work has continued to be a great help to Christians even as we approach the third centennial…
The following is from the ‘Farewell Sermon’ of this leader of the Great Awakening in New England (The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. I, p. ccvi.) Although considered by many…
The Bible teaches that Christian men who head households should be spiritual leaders in their families. The principal means for this leadership has been in domestic gatherings called ‘family worship,’…
New England was the laboratory of Puritan ideas. Throughout the 17th century leading English Puritans emigrated to New England in order to put their beliefs into practice freely. Oliver Cromwell…
The distinctive elements of Biblical family worship, leadership by the male head of the family and the use of God’s word, are found throughout the Bible, in the ancient Church,…
The family as an institution belongs to the natural order. Its welfare tells on that of the community, and of the State, and of the world. So also what affects…
The Reformed Churches by their recognition of the household of the believer as a unit in their fellowship were shut in to what they looked upon as no bondage. Their…
GOD, the Creator of man, established the family constitution. ‘God setteth the solitary in families,’ Ps. 68:6. As to the design of this constitution, we are expressly informed in Malachi…
The parent is the divinely constituted HEAD AND LORD of his family. The authority which he possesses is not usurped, but is delegated to him by the source of all…
The parent is invested with authority for some wise and special end, which looks beyond this world, and ‘things temporal.’ It is to accomplish the great purpose for which the…
THE head of a family should act the part of a PROPHET towards the rest of his household, and impart to them such instruction as is calculated to answer the…
The term education, as it is commonly received, is too restricted in its signification. In its usual acceptation, it is applied to the acquisition of what may with propriety be…
But in addition to preceptive instruction, there must be superadded the force of corresponding example. The one will effect but little without the other. We are imitative creatures, and learn…
As the helplessness of a child, unable to defend itself from surrounding danger, makes a strong and effectual appeal to its parents for protection, so should its native ignorance, especially…
It may be proper in this place to notice briefly, the peculiar duties, advantages, and consequent responsibilities of MOTHERS, in regard to the education of their children. To its mother’s…
