This was a very helpful 32 minute teaching from Dr. Joel Beeke on how we can train our children to better hear sermons. He has several excellent and practical ideas as to how we can promote this discipline in our … Continued
Family worship provides the added benefit of training our children for corporate worship. As they sit and listen to the Word of God, hear prayers, and sing hymns these elements in corporate worship will take on a new meaning. The … Continued
Let me now therefore, once more, before I finally cease to speak to this congregation, repeat, and earnestly press the counsel which I have often urged on the heads of families, while I was their pastor, to great painfulness in … Continued
A little boy about twelve years old was tempted one day to pluck some cherries from a tree which his father had told him not to touch. “You needn’t be afraid,” said his companion, who was standing near him. “Your … Continued
“Would then the present generation have their posterity be true lovers and honorers of God; masters and parents must take Solomon’s good advice, and train up and catechize their respective households in the way wherein they should go. I am … Continued
We deeply want a revival of domestic religion. The Christian family was the bulwark of godliness in the days of the puritans, but in these evil times hundreds of families of so-called Christians have no family worship, no restraint upon … Continued
“If we want to bring up a godly family, who shall be a seed to serve God when our heads are under the clods of the valley, let us seek to train them up in the fear of God by … Continued