Biblical teaching on marriage, singleness, parenting, and family life.
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08107. Protecting children from spiritual attack is one of those parental concerns that can either drive you to prayer or drive you slightly mad, and I have watched it do both. The instinct behind the question is right and God given. A parent who did not want to shield their child from spiritual attack…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08099 When the enemy attacks families he is going after the oldest institution God ever made. Before there was a nation, a temple or a church, there was a household, and God has been working through households ever since. That alone tells you why the family draws so much fire. Over the years I…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 08098 Understanding how the enemy attacks marriages begins with understanding why he bothers. Marriage was God’s idea before sin entered the world, and Paul tells us it pictures something enormous: the relationship between Jesus and his church. Anything that displays the gospel that clearly is going to draw fire. My wife and I have…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1128. Helping children love Scripture is, I think, one of the most important tasks any Christian parent takes on, and also one of the most quietly daunting. We want our children not simply to know facts about the Bible but to treasure it, to reach for it naturally, and to find in it the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1059. children’s Bibles are not simply acceptable for young children, they are, in my experience raising and teaching children over many years, one of the most effective tools available for building early familiarity with Scripture’s great story before a child has the reading stamina or vocabulary to engage the unabridged text directly. The concern…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1058. family Bible reading fails in most homes not because parents lack good intentions but because it is attempted with the wrong expectations, either too ambitious a plan collapsing within a fortnight, or too passive an approach that never moves past reading words aloud without any real engagement. I have tried and failed at…