Family on Miscellanea

Devotion Through Domestic Service

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

If a woman were to spend all day long in church, praying and chanting, her style of life would not be as agreeable to God as if she were a wife who patiently performed her duties, feeding her children, caring for them, guiding them and doing all she could to teach and train them.

Training our Sons

Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Our sons need our training not to respond to unkindness with unkindness, but rather to remember Christ, who was never combative or defensive, but ever loving, kind, and compassionate.

Steve Jobs on Abortion

Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted to meet my biological mother mostly to see if she was okay and to thank her, because I’m glad I didn’t end up as an abortion.

Chesterton on Motherhood

Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

Bad Parents Make Bad Children

Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I cannot suppose thee to be such a stranger as to be ignorant of the general complaint concerning the decay of the power of godliness, and more especially of the great corruption of youth. Wherever thou goest, thou wilt hear men crying out of bad children and bad servants; whereas indeed the source of the mischief must be sought a little higher: it is bad parents and bad masters that make bad children and bad servants.

The Second Most Important Book for Children

Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Besides the Bible, your lives are the most important book your children will ever read. In the book of your life, they will see how important your views on God are, whether worship is a delight or a duty, whether sin is a horrible evil or mere naughtiness, and whether we really cherish our families or view them as a burden.

Principle Duty of Husband and Wife

Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A principal duty between husband and wife is with special care and skill and diligence to help each other in the knowledge and worship and obedience of God in order to their salvation.

Building Our Kingdom

Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

It is when we love God more than we love ourselves and when we quit building our own little kingdom and start seeking his that we will love our spouse.

Marriage and the Creator

Mon, 25 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

No marriage will be unaffected when the people in the marriage are seeking to get from the creation what they were only ever meant to get from the Creator.

A Holy Family

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A holy, well-governed family is the preparative to a holy and well-governed church.

If masters of families did their part, and sent such polished materials to the churches, as they ought to do, the work and life of the pastors of the church would be unspeakably more easy and delightful.

It would do one good to preach to such an auditory, to catechize them, and instruct him, and examine them, and watch over them, who are prepared by wise and holy education, and understand and love the doctrine which they hear.

Family Reformation

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Family reformation is the easiest in the most likely way to a common reformation; at least to send many souls to heaven, and train up multitudes for God, if it reached not to national reformation.

Divine Dating

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

And George Walker, yet another member of the [Westminster] assembly who wrote on the topic, had hard words for weak men who told ladies to marry them because of ‘pretense of inspiration and divine revelation’. Whether out of laziness or desperation men should not try to push women a little closer to the wedding because ‘God had said’ they were meant for each other.

The Real Soul-Mate

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, [husbands] think they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. The real soul-mate too often proves to be the next sexually attractive person that comes along. Someone whom they might indeed very profitably have married, if only —. Hence divorce, to provide the ‘if only’. And of course they are as a rule quite right: they did make a mistake. … But the ‘real soul-mate’ is the only you are actually married to. You really do very little choosing: life and circumstances do most of it (though if there is a God these must be His instruments, or His appearances).

C. S. Lewis on Media and Sexuality

Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

It is all a fake, of course; the figures in the popular art are falsely drawn; the real women in bathing suits or tights are actually pinched in and propped up to make them appear firmer and more slender and more boyish than nature allows a full-grown woman to be…. As a result we are more and more directing the desires of men to something which does not exist—making the rôle of the eye in sexuality more and more important and at the same time making its demands more and more impossible. What follows you can easily forecast.

The Huge Task of Mothering

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? … I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

The Purpose of 1 Corinthians 13

Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Instead of preparing people for marriage, then, the apostle [in 1 Coronthians 13] was trying desperately to show a church full of self-centered Christians that there is a better way to live–not just on your wedding day but every day for the rest of your life.

Al Mohler on the Church and Marriage

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court may well decide the future of marriage as a legal institution, but the church must hold to marriage as far more, but not less than, a legal reality. Marriage is one of God’s most gracious gifts to humanity. It will be the Church’s responsibility to honor marriage, no matter what the Court may decide.

Plutarch on Pursuit of Money and Children

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Good people, what are you after? Why in such deadly earnest about making money, while troubling so little about the sons to whom you are to leave it?’

Lacking Fellowship?

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

At least as it regard the handful of families that showed immediate excitement and then after a month changed heart, this is what ’lacking fellowship’; means. It means that the family needs a church made up of people who are just like they, who raise their children using the same childrearing methods, who take the same stance on birth control, schooling, voting, breastfeeding, dress codes, white flour, white sugar, gluten, childhood immunizations, the observance of secular and religious holidays.

Employment Outside the Home

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I do not belive that ’employment outside the home’ is as valuable or important or satisfying as employment at home, for either men or women.

Institutions Controlling our Chidren's Lives

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Two institutions currently control our children’s lives: television and schooling, in that order.