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…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12015 The Bible does not mention contraception directly. There is no verse that says “thou shalt not use contraception” and no verse that says “family planning is commended.” This means the question must be approached through broader biblical principles rather than proof texts. Christians who hold strong convictions on both sides of this question…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12016 In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a deeply personal and often painful subject. Many couples who pursue it have experienced years of heartbreak through infertility, and the desire for a child is one of the most natural and God-given longings a human being can have. The Bible does not address IVF directly, since the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11107 Parenting is one of the most important things any human being will ever do, and yet it is one of the areas where Christians most often rely on cultural trends, personal intuition, or family tradition rather than on what Scripture actually teaches. The Bible does not offer a step-by-step parenting manual. What it…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12056 Few parenting topics generate as much debate among Christians as physical discipline. The wider culture has moved decisively against it, and in many countries legislation now prohibits any form of corporal punishment. Yet Scripture contains explicit references to physical correction, and many faithful Christians have practised it for generations. The question is what…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08107 Few things stir parental concern more deeply than the thought that their children might be vulnerable to spiritual attack. The instinct to protect is God-given, and Scripture does not dismiss the reality of spiritual opposition. But the question of how to protect children from spiritual attack requires careful biblical thinking, because the answers…
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: 3 minutesQuestion 6024 This question is related to the question of generational curses but is distinct from it. The previous question asked whether ancestral sins create binding spiritual mechanisms. This one asks something more concrete: do the sins that parents commit actually affect their children? The honest answer requires holding two biblical truths together without collapsing…
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…