In this post, Brian Croft shares five ways to communicate love to your wife, all of which share one common denominator…surprise for her and sacrifice from you.
http://briancroft.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/what-are-some-effective-ways-to-love-and-serve-your-wife/
In this article, Rev. Michael Brown shares some thoughts on what he says is the only “youth program” your kids need; family worship and catechesis:
Coming to Reformed Christianity, my wife and I not only learned the sobering truth about the means of grace and what actually happens during the Divine Service on the Lord’s Day, we also learned about the vital importance of regular family worship throughout the week. Clearly, this was a practice far more biblical (and historical) than the compartmentalized, hustle-bustle of a busy week at church. The ancient paths God carved out for families to walk in long ago were new to us. We learned how he designed the family to be a worshiping unit, an entity that would engage in prayer, praise and instruction in the course of ordinary, daily life. We learned how Christian parents have the covenantal responsibility-both toward God and their children-of bringing up their little ones as disciples in the historic Christian faith. Suddenly, all those passages about training up your children began to come into color.
Read more here:
http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2010/12/04/this-is-not-your-neighbors-youth-group/
This is a thought-provoking five-part series based on J. C. Ryle’s The Duties of Parents. It covers:
I suggest you read the post below first.
http://jcrylequotes.com/2010/09/11/five-hints-for-raising-godly-children/
This is a wonderful example of a man putting his family first. I have only recently explained to our children that the front passenger seat is the most dangerous seat in a car because of the driver’s natural inclination to turn a vehicle to protect themselves in the event of an accident. Yet this man willingly placed himself in danger to protect his wife and unborn child. Here is an excerpt from the article:
“It breaks my heart and it also fills me with gratefulness,” a weeping Erin Wood, 31, told NBC’s “Today” show this morning. “If it would have been a head-on crash, we both would have been killed and our baby,” she said.
Brian Wood, 33, was pronounced dead at the scene Sept. 3 after an oncoming SUV careened across the center line on Whidbey Island in Washington state, and hurtled over the roof of Wood’s 2004 Suburban. His wife was in the passenger seat. The North Vancouver, B.C., couple’s first child is due in early November.
Her husband of five years slammed on the brakes and swerved hard to the right, ensuring that he would take the brunt of the impact, his wife said. She had been dozing and woke to see the Chevy Blazer racing toward them. She suffered a banged head and a black eye, which was still visible today, but is otherwise fine. The unborn baby boy was unharmed, she said.
http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/husband-sacrifices-his-life-to-save-his-pregnant-wife/
Patrice
It's the way he was raised, the way his parents had been raised back in the homeland. You never leave the table without chewing the Real Bread. Even if there were cows to milk and you had to run, or you were late for prayer meeting at the church, or you had company for dinner. If you sat down to eat, you never left the table without eating Words.
http://www.aholyexperience.com/2010/08/one-parenting-habit-that-changes.html
I found this post at Generation Cedar to be very thought provoking. The quote from the young woman interviewed on Return of the Daughters is, indeed, a profound statement. She says, “I’m not single. I’m part of a family.”
http://www.generationcedar.com/main/2010/08/is-there-such-a-thing-as-singleness.html
The other day we purchased and watched God’s Technology, which is a film that outlines a Christian response to the digital revolution, in four parts:
Part 1: Four Biblical Principles
Part 2: Three Possible Responses
Part 3: Seven Step Training Program
Part 4: Example: The Seven Steps Applied to Facebook
We found the film to thought-provoking and informative, and will apply some of these things in our family. Another thing I liked is that I could download it direct, which saved a lot of time on postage :)
Here is the trailer. You can download the film at http://www.headhearthand.org/
