Monthly Archive: April 2012

John Piper, pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church, provides the following article entitled “Jesus and the Children.”1 “One thing to watch for when assessing a person’s spiritual fitness for ministry is how he or she relates to children. Put a child in the room and watch. This is what Jesus did to make his point. Children are the litmus paper to expose the presence of pride. …

All parents identify with these words from John Wilmot: “Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.” How true! In a day when talk show hosts and Hollywood celebrities are presented as authoritative family counselors, more than ever, believers need to know what the Bible teaches about parenting–and put those principles into practice. …

Greg Ogden, Executive Pastor of Discipleship, Christ Church of Oak Brook, writes, “If we are to devise a successful strategy of disciple making in our churches, we must first assess the gap between where we are and where we are called to go.” He reminds us that “One of the consistent images in the New Testament for the Christian life is the discipline of an …

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10). Wisdom and knowledge are very different. Knowledge is accumulating facts. Wisdom is knowing what to do with them. 1. Parents are to teach their children about the ways of God. Deuteronomy 4:9, directs parents to teach God’s laws “to your children and to their children after them.” 2. Deuteronomy 4:10 instructs God’s people …