Parenting
Find biblical principles for raising children, fostering godly family relationships, and building Christ-centered homes. Get practical guidance for nurturing spiritual development and character in the next generation.
Thoroughly Christian Families—Part 5
If all we knew was God’s greatness, we might fear and reverence Him, but it…
Thoroughly Christian Families—Part 4
If ever we are to have children who go on to love God wholeheartedly, it…
Thoroughly Christian Families—Part 3—Routines and Rituals
God knows that we are not only shaped from the inside out, with teaching and…
Thoroughly Christian Families—Part 2—Internalising and Exemplifying the Word
Shaping the heart of those who live in our homes is not just one thing,…
Thoroughly Christian Families—Part 1
Many, many Christian homes are practically secular. They don’t deny God. They go to church…
Parenting Teen Rebellion (2)
Parenting teenagers in a state of rebellion need not simply be a “phase” that we…
Parenting—Teen Rebellion
Parenting teenagers requires that parents understand how they contribute to the problem of teenage rebellion.
Parenting—the Teen Years
Parenting teens need not be the daunting and nightmarish experience some say it is. How…
Parenting—Bringing Up Girls
Raising girls to be godly women means understanding biblical femininity.
Parenting—Bringing Up Boys
To raise boys, we must have a clear notion of what constitutes biblical masculinity.
Parenting—Corrective Discipline
Parenting has to include corrective discipline. How should parents administer it?
Parenting—Not Provoking to Anger Part 2
Parents can provoke their children to anger with unbiblical correction, ungodly words and disrespect.
Parenting—Not Provoking to Anger
Parents are commanded to not provoke their children to anger. What are the ways that…
Parenting—Teaching Honor and Manners
Parents need to teach more than obedience. Children must be taught honour, if they are…
Parenting—Teaching Obedience
Parents are to teach their children first-time, immediate, cheerful obedience.
Unbiblical Parenting Strategies
Parents can find themselves parenting in unbiblical ways, inherited from their parents or form the…
Parenting the Heart
Parenting is more than controlling outward behaviour. Parenting seeks to shape the heart of a…
How Parents Instruct
Parenting involves instructing through the symbolic, including ceremonies and rituals that bring home the truth…
Parental Example
Parents are responsible for teaching and shaping children through example: the example of their piety,…
Parents: Teaching and Shaping
Parents are responsible to actively bring their children up, by teaching and shaping them in…
What’s the Point of Parenting?
Why did God establish the family? More than anything, the family reveals truths about God,…
The Profit of Parental Pain
Being chastened by God is not pleasant. Hebrews does encourage us to consider this chastening…
A Christian View of Corporal Punishment
Does the Bible speak to the matter of physical chastening? In the context of parenting…
The Fathers We Need
What kind of fathers does Scripture call for?
Permissive or Priestly Parents
How should parents raise their children? The Old Testament furnishes us with a positive and…
Life Issues—Parenting
What does the Bible say about parenting?
Unless the Lord Builds a House
A certain worldly wisdom says that we should be neutral about our children’s faith. Psalm…
Faithful God, Faithful Families
Understanding the faithfulness of God is what leads to faithful marriages, and faithfulness to God…
The Fifth Commandment—Honor Father and Mother
What does ‘honouring’ father and mother really mean? And why have many societies considered this…
Proverbs on Parenting
Modern parenting methods are often a far-cry from what Proverbs calls for. This is largely…
God-Saturated Homes—Part 5
God wishes young eyes to see pictures of himself through the biblical roles that are…
God-Saturated Homes—Part 4
One of the ways that God wishes to have the faith fleshed out before the…
God-Saturated Homes—Part 3
God wanted the Israelites to do more than simply teach the faith. He wanted it…
God-Saturated Homes—Part 2
When our children observe us, do they see a deep-rooted and thorough love for God?
God-Saturated Homes—Part 1
Why do so many young people who grow up in ostensibly Christian homes abandon the…
Spiritual Parenting
As Paul made disciples, he compared himself to both a father and a mother in…
The Pain of Permissive Papas
The tragedy of permissive parenting is seen in the wicked sons of the high priest…