Clik here to view.
The Commandment We Forgot: Honoring the Dishonorable
Today we continue this series on honoring our parents, the series that considers how we, as adults, can fulfill the fifth commandment. Behind it is the knowledge that few of us seriously consider the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Be a Parent Worthy of Honor
For a number of weeks, I have been exploring the fifth commandment and, in particular, how adult children are to obey it. “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do Children Have a Financial Obligation Toward Their Parents?
Crash Course Philosophy has more than 5 million subscribers, making it one of the most popular YouTube channels. They recently shared a video titled “Family Obligations” in which they explain the view...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Blessings of Growing Up in a Christian Home
I consider it the greatest privilege, the highest act of God’s providence, that I grew up in a Christian home. I consider it no small responsibility to ensure my children, likewise, are growing up in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Parent
I think she might actually hate her child. She sat beside me at the soccer game, her daughter competing against mine. Meanwhile, her son sat beside her. Or he did for a minute, at least, until he got...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Writing Great Books for Kids (and Reading Great Books To Kids)
Parents love to buy their children good books. Christian parents love to buy their children good Christian books. Thankfully, we are well-served with excellent titles geared to children. Many of them...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Art of Godliness, Episode 2: Honoring Parents
Today I bring you episode 2 of The Art of Godliness, the new podcast hosted by myself and my good friend Paul Martin. The purpose of the podcast is to think out loud and in public about how to live a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exploring the Bible: A Bible Reading Plan for Kids
A key component of every parent’s task is helping our children form good habits. A key component of every Christian parent’s task is helping our children form the good habit of personal devotions. We...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What’s the Purpose of … Children?
It used to be so straightforward. We got married, then we had children. It’s just what we did. But then something changed, so that today both marriage and having children have become optional, matters...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vlog: Why My Family Still Doesn’t Do Sleepovers
Many years ago Aileen and I made a decision for our family, little knowing how that decision would end up reverberating around the world. We decided not to have our kids participate in sleepovers....
View ArticleClik here to view.
10 Lessons on Parenting Big(ger) Kids
We did it! Aileen and I successfully got one of our children through childhood and into adulthood. Today Nick, our oldest, celebrates his eighteenth birthday. He is now an adult, and a pretty good...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It Takes a Church To Raise Your Child
You’ve probably heard it said that it takes a village to raise a child. Parenting is so difficult, so complex, so relentless, that it is more than any two people can successfully handle. Children...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Dear, Sweet Girl
My dear, sweet girl, I’m so thankful you’re thinking about sin. I’m so thankful you’re thinking about what it means to be a sinner, what it means to realize that so often you do the bad stuff you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Honestly Assessing Our Decision to Public School Our Kids
Last week Aileen and I had the joy of attending our son’s high school graduation. Nick graduated as an Ontario Scholar, certified as bilingual in French and English. Now he gets six weeks of vacation...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Use the Rod, Lose the Child?
Spare the rod, spoil the child. It’s not exactly the wisdom of Solomon, but it’s not far off. Proverbs 13:24 echoes many of the other Proverbs when it says “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kids and Technology
Here’s a question I was asked most recently in South Africa, but which I’ve been asked all over the world: What can you say about that tricky relationship between kids and technology? This is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Raising Our Children To Be In But Not Of The World
Parenting is tough. One of our greatest challenges is to raise kids who are able to exist in this world while not being of this world. A reader recently asked for some thoughts on this, and here’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Folly Bound Up in the Heart of a Child
The Bible tells us what we all soon learn by hard experience: “Folly is bound up in the heart of a child” (Proverbs 22:15). Though children are young and naive and innocent in so many ways, they are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Window on the World
We pray. We pray because we believe prayer matters, we pray because God hears, we pray because God chooses to act on our prayers. We pray because we can and we pray because we must. These prayers are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shepherding At Home
In this video, which was filmed at a nearby conference, I was asked about some of the concerns related to pastors and their families. I tried to briefly to remind church leaders of the temptations...
View Article
