What Is the Foundation For Parenting?

What Is the Foundation For Parenting?

WHAT IS THE ESSENTIAL FOUNDATION for effective parenting? Christians answer this question in varied ways. Some would say it is love for children. Others that it’s the willingness to educate them in a Christian school. Many would say discipline and affection....
Are You Grateful For Your Children?

Are You Grateful For Your Children?

THE PATRIARCHS ARE BIBLICAL HEROES, yet their attempts at parenting met with scattered results. Lets walk through Genesis and reflect on their experience. Adam had three sons. Abel was chosen, but Cain, filled with jealousy, committed fratricide. He killed his...
Is Your Fatherhood Spiritual or Biological?

Is Your Fatherhood Spiritual or Biological?

I WAS CONVERTED AT AGE TWENTY-TWO. As my father did not share my faith, it was difficult to go to him for spiritual advice. He disciplined and loved me. For that, I will be eternally grateful. He is now dead, and I miss him. He was my biological father, but he was not...
An Argument for  Dad As the Lead Parent

An Argument for Dad As the Lead Parent

MY WIFE AND I often speak at parenting conferences. Sometimes I make the off-hand comment that, in the Bible, the father is the lead parent, and his wife is his helper. I am often surprised at the reaction. “Where did you get such a crazy idea?” Or, “I don’t like it...