Tim Challies offers another good recommendation for parents, “The Parenting Book Too Few Parents Read.” Acknowledging that rearing children in this culture is difficult, Challies encourages parents to tap the wisdom of experts, those who have already displayed success in this area of life. I believe that many parents fail …
In his article, “Help! I Want to Get Married, but I Can’t Afford It,” Russ Gehrlein gives some practical and biblical advice to young people who desire to marry but feel it is out of reach. Among his best points are to develop a plan and to trust God along …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Called to Follow,” was first published on Friday, June 13, 2014. “Then He said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.’” —Matthew 4:19 If there is one great principle of Christian living, it is walking in Christ’s footsteps (I John 2:6). …
I wrote this essay, “Marriage—A God-Plane Relationship (Part Five),” for CGG Weekly on February 19, 2010. “Husbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word . . ..” …
Originally “Marriage—A God-Plane Relationship (Part Four),” this essay was published in CGG Weekly on February 12, 2010. “Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table.” —Psalm 128:3 Psalm 128 illustrates how properly honoring and working …
This essay, “Why Bother With Fathers?” appeared in the June 19, 2009, issue of CGG Weekly. “They were like well-fed lusty stallions; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.” —Jeremiah 5:8 American singer/songwriter Billy Joel, 60, is getting divorced—again. He and his third wife, former Top Chef host Katie Lee, …
This essay, titled “Why We Homeschool,” appeared in the CGG Weekly of July 14, 2006. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” —Proverbs 22:6 Back in the early years of the homeschooling phenomenon, its advocates were …
CGG Weekly published this essay as “Expecting More” on November 7, 2003. “. . . till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ . …
