From beginning to end, God speaks about the importance of children through His Word. Because children are important to Him, children should be important to us. But the evidence of moral decay in a country full of people who claim to be Christians, and a church made up of shallow believers, points to the fact that our ideas about children are essentially the same as the world's. We let a culture that kills 1 million babies a year in the womb inform our opinion about children. Knowing what the Bible says about children will help you connect with God's heart for them and see how He asks us to relate to and regard them. God longs to give His people the gift of children in order that they can make disciples of them. He calls them a ... Read More...

I had one of those days recently where I was constantly frustrated by my children's behavior. You know, where you expect your kids not to act like kids? I couldn't figure out why, at the ages of 10 and 7, they hadn't overcome certain character flaws that I- a woman approaching her forties- still has difficulty with. Then, I slipped into this line of thinking: "Hey, I homeschool. Where are these stinkin' attitudes coming from??" In this day and age, it's important and necessary to protect our children from worldly influences so their faith has the best chance of taking root. According to the Barna Group, the overwhelming majority of adults have their moral and spiritual foundations already in place by age ... Read More...