Building a Godly Home: A Holy Vision for Family Life
William Gouge, edited by Brown, Scott and Beeke, Joel. Building a Godly Home. Vol. 1 Grand Rapids, MI.: Reformation Heritage, 2013. 192 + xiii pp. $18.00 Of Dom...
Category: parenting
The Impact of Fathers
Fathers (whether they recognize it or not) are behaving in a way that will shape their children’s understanding of what it means to be a father, and that ...
Father Hunger
Wilson, Douglas. Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead their Families. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2012. viii + 252 pp. $15.99 In Father Hunger...
Dads, Daughters, and Dancefloors
Remember school dances in junior high? High School dances weren’t that much better either. Most of the time, you could always find the vast majority of th...
Instructing a Child’s Heart
Over the course of this summer, I picked up Tedd Tripp’s Instructing a Child’s Heart. I had read his magnum opus of child-rearing, Shepherding a Chi...
Reforming Marriage
There are several books that will not change your mind on a subject, but will entrench your position if you agree with it before ever picking it up. Reforming M...
God’s Call to Biblical Parenting
I’ve been spending time reading Reforming Marriage lately, and found this quote to be particularly relevant to men in the church. “The Lord said tha...
Singing Kids to Sleep
I sing hymns to my kids when I’m singing them to sleep. I always have. Lately, it’s been a lot of “I’d Rather Have Jesus,” ̶...
To Train Up a Child
Over the course of the last two weeks, I’ve been reading To Train up a Child by Michael and Debi Pearl. My wife Krista has been reading Debi’s lates...
Learning to walk
My youngest son, Haddon, is just shy of 6 months, but is already mobile. He started crawling just a few weeks ago, but he’s gotten super-quick. And now,...