How Parents Can Better Train Up Their Children in Piety (Thomas Gouge)
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The following is an excerpt on the training of children from Thomas Gouge’s The Principles of Christian Religion (1690).
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Having and Raising Children for Christ
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The way Christians treat the issue of bearing and raising children has a monumental impact on the world.
Read MoreFathers Must Teach Their Children
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Parents have the great obligation to raise their children to love and worship and obey Jesus Christ. And this obligation ultimately rests with fathers.
Read MoreDabney on Parenting—"the one business for which the earth exists"
/“The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth” –Robert Lewis Dabney
Read MoreDabney On Fire: A Theology of Parenting, Education, Feminism, and Government
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In addition to my introductory chapter, Dabney On Fire contains four of Robert Lewis Dabney’s greatest essays, in which he expounds upon the significance of parents, the failure of public schools, the dangers of feminism, and the limits of civil government.
Read MoreBusy Christians and Their Rebellious Children
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“Busy-busy Christians and their rebellious children: a story common to all ages of the Church.”
Read MoreMoses Was Really Concerned About Teaching Children
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Moses was really concerned about parents teaching their children and passing down their faith in Yahweh to their offspring.
Read MoreOur Parents Have Failed Us
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Good parents cannot guarantee how their children will turn out. However, there is the biblical expectation that faithful parenting will produce faithful children.
Read MoreFathers Are the Key to Education
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Fathers are the key to their children’s education. Regardless of where a child is schooled, his or her father plays a major role in education. This is because a father is the leader of his family. And the fact that this statement is even slightly controversial is a product of our culture’s indoctrination into feminism.
Read MoreDave Ramsey is Wrong!
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Dave Ramsey, the financial guru, is right about a lot of things. But he is wrong about private Christian schools. This can be seen in his answer to a recent question posed for Dave in his newspaper advice column.
Read MoreA New E-Book: Thinking Biblically About Education
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The goal of the book is, as the title suggests, to get Christians Thinking Biblically About Education. However, the subtitle tells the reader more about the book's argument—Why Parents Should Abandon Government Schools and Take Back Control of Education.
Read MoreEducation and the Covenant
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That Christian children are part of the covenant means that parents are to train them in the covenant. Christian children need to be taught a Christian worldview and trained to think God's thoughts after Him. They need to learn every subject with God and His Word as the foundation, for "The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge" (Proverbs 1:7).
Read MoreSphere Sovereignty and the Role of Education
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The greatest violation of sphere sovereignty today is in the area of education. Throughout history, both the state and the church have claimed responsibility for the role of educating children. However, both of these spheres are mistaken. The responsibility of educating children is a task God has given to parents. Parents have direct authority over their children, as seen in the 5th commandment for children to honor their father and mother.
Read MoreR.L. Dabney on the Unique Responsibility of Parents
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Parenting has fallen on hard times in our day, as many parents have abdicated the responsibility to raise their children. This is sad because of the monumental influence parents have on their children. No one understood this influence better than R.L. Dabney, the great Southern Presbyterian pastor and theologian.
Read More"Teach Them Diligently" – A Sermon on Deuteronomy 6
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I want to talk about one of the most pressing issues of our day—education. But rather than invoke the opinions of man on this subject, I want us to look at a very important passage from God’s Word, Deuteronomy 6. God has much to say about parenting and educating our children, and this is one of the central passages on the subject.
Read MoreIn Loco Parentis
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This concept is known by the Latin phrase in loco parentis, meaning “in the place of a parent.” Parents have a natural authority over their children, which is why God gives us the 5th commandment to “Honor your father and mother” (Ex 20:12). It’s also why the Apostle Paul tells fathers to bring their children up “in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Eph 6:4).
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