Fathers are busy, they've got a full-time job, they've got all kinds of responsibilities, a lot of the fathers here are elders or deacons or ministers as well. I think the best preparation to really be effective at family worship is to be prayerful yourself, and to have a secret life of communion with God and feel the burden of the souls of your children.

The second most important thing is be widely read, read as much as you can about all kinds of spiritual matters and practical matters, and be well-versed about your children's needs just through reading. And let the family worship flow out of the spontaneity and the overflow of that kind of preparation.