How many people willingly take the difficult road if the easy road is right there ready for the taking. I think if any child naturally chose work hard and doing things the way they were supposed to be...
All humans have a selfish nature to one degree or another. Being a parent, I’m sure one of the first qualities you saw in your young children was their seemingly natural tendency to be selfish. The de...
You probably don’t have children who have ever murdered someone but that doesn’t mean that the description of God’s people being those that do not kill is of little to no importance to you as a parent...
In Exodus, the Israelites are told to honor their parents so that they may live long in the land. In Ephesians 6:3, Paul echoes the importance of children obeying their parents. He says that the peopl...
Observance of the Sabbath was an incredibly important aspect of Jewish life. It was one of the important aspects of the law that kept the people of God separate from the people of the pagan nations ar...
The third commandment is usually translated to read something like “don’t take God’s in vain,” but is this simply a ban on swearing? That is no doubt included, but the thrust of the third aspect of Go...
It is becoming increasingly popular these days in American religion to define the love of God by the world’s version of love. The problem with that is that the world’s idea of love means to accept som...
In contrast to young children, pre-teens and teens are prone to have doubts about the validity of their worldview. Unless they are specifically taught otherwise, the natural tendency of children will ...
According to some polls, the average American family spends about 58 hours a week watching television, as opposed to 40 hours working for adults and approximately 30 hours in school for students. If w...
Movies are one of, if not, the most popular forms of entertainment in our world today. We often decide whether or not our children can watch a movie based on overt things like violence, language, and ...