Esther Edwards, the daughter of Jonathan Edwards, recorded many tender moments of her family life in her journal. On September 11, 1756, she reflects on the night before, and how her father gave her counsel on some spiritual difficulties she was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Family worship can become a resented drudgery or a longed-for joy. This is powerfully illustrated by John G. Paton, the faithful missionary to the cannibals of the New Hebrides islands, in his autobiography Missionary Patriarch. Paton discusses...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A defining moment in my life came in the year 2000 when I was listening to Dennis Rainey at a conference in Dallas Texas. He said, The family is God’s smallest unit in the battle for the soul of any nation. He designed the family as the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
And verily there is one spring and cause of the decay of Religion in our day, which we cannot but touch upon, and earnestly urge a redress of; and that is the neglect of the worship of God in Families, by those to whom the charge and conduct of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
These historians observe that slowly, over the generations, we have surrendered the functions of family life over to institutions: Sociologists define the function of the modern family as twofold: the 'socialization' of the child, and the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"Everything educates in the family, the handshake of the father, the voice of the mother, the older brother, the younger sister, the baby in the cradle, the sick loved one, the grandparents and the grandchildren, the uncles and the aunts, the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The biblical view of patriarchal leadership in marriage is supremely defined by the heart and behavior of Christ toward His church. William Gouge, the puritan writer says: The goodness which Christ doth for his church, He doth because He is the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Our family attempts to read the Bible through each year, reading to one another out loud. Here are a few of the things I have attempted to show our family about the book of Numbers. What is the theme of Numbers?The 40 years of wilderness...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
And verily there is one spring and cause of the decay of Religion in our day, which we cannot but touch upon, and earnestly urge a redress of; and that is the neglect of the worship of God in Families, by those to whom the charge and conduct of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
