Involving Children in Service
The following excerpt from The Ministry of Motherhood by Sally Clarkson really resounded with me this morning: I believe Jesus will hold each of us responsible for the stewardship of the good news he has given us. If we are to succeed in our calling of raising children with hearts for God, then we must...
Teaching and Talking
There seems to be an important distinction in Deuteronomy 6 between teaching God’s Word and talking about God’s Word. Let me elaborate. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 says: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that...
Why Honor?
Does it ever seem strange to those of you who are parents that we are the ones who have to teach our kids to honor us? There have been times that I feel quite uncomfortable demanding that my son honor and obey me, for I am keenly aware of my own shortcomings and inconsistencies. It...
C.S. Lewis on Faith: Part 2
My previous post covered Lewis’ take on Faith in the first sense: Belief. His comments concerning the second, higher sense are even more compelling, for I have personally experienced that of which he speaks: No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. … Only those who try...
Connecting the Dots
This Easter weekend, I had the wonderful privilege of sharing the Easter story in a way that was meaningful to my son for the first time. He is finally old enough to remember facts from the stories he hears, and as we read picture books that spoke of the last supper, the betrayal, the trial,...
Defining Obedience for Our Children
3rd post in the series: Seeing the correlation between obedience and true faith, it is imperative that we train our children to mold their hearts after obedience. As Paul points out in Ephesians 6, the way children obey God is to obey their parents. Since we are responsible for training our children to love and...
Feeding Our Kids the Word
At three years old, Keith doesn’t miss a thing. His little ears pick up on nuances in our adult conversations and you can see the wheels turning as he promptly asks what we mean or why we used a certain expression. As I said in my previous post, Keith listens intently to music and asks...
Pulling My Own Wagon
I’m currently reading Boundaries with Kids, by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend. It’s chock full of really great stuff on child-rearing from a biblical perspective. I’ll spare you an endless string of great quotes and highlight one section that stood out to me in relation to my post on log extraction. One of the...
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