Biblical teaching on marriage, singleness, parenting, and family life.
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08099 The family, like marriage, is a creation ordinance established before the Fall and central to God’s purposes in the world. God chose to structure human life around families, and the patterns of faith transmission, moral formation, and relational security that healthy families provide are irreplaceable. It follows that the family is a high-value…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1058 Family devotions. Family worship. Family Bible reading. Whatever you call it, most Christian parents feel a mixture of guilt and aspiration about this practice. We know we should be doing it. We’ve heard about the Puritan families who gathered daily around Scripture. We’ve read the statistics about children raised in spiritually engaged homes…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 1128 Passing faith to the next generation is one of the most important things Christian parents do. And central to that task is helping our children love God’s Word. We want them not merely to know about the Bible but to treasure it, to turn to it naturally, to find in it the wisdom…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 11072 This question goes to the heart of faithful Christian parenting. Moses commanded Israel: “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:7). The instruction of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1059 Walk into any Christian bookshop, and you will find shelves of children’s Bibles—colourful, illustrated retellings of Scripture aimed at young readers. Parents and grandparents buy them with the best intentions, hoping to introduce children to God’s Word in accessible form. But are children’s Bibles helpful or harmful? Do they prepare children for the…