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The Ordinary Christian Family
One of my adult sons recently commented to me that the traditional family is toast. I understand what he meant. The ordinary Christian family is nearly extinct. Contemporary culture is redefining family—gay marriage, a range of creative living arrangements, and the pressure to accept polygamy are all assaults on the Christian family. The notion that parents, whose love produced children, should live together in marriage, working together to provide a godly home and stability for their children, has all but vanished as a cultural ideal. The ordinary Christian family is simply ordinary Christian people, living in the ordinary circumstances of … View Resource
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Listening at Home
How well do you communicate? Most of us will answer in light of our ability to present our thoughts and ideas in cogent ways. But I would suggest that the finest art of communication in our family life is not expressing our ideas. It is understanding the thoughts and ideas of the other people in the family. This is a recurring theme of the book of Proverbs. “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion” (Prov. 18:2). The agenda of a fool in conversation is getting things off his chest. Even when he is … View Resource
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A Child’s Call to Conversion: Faith as a Christian Mark
The clear desire of all Christian parents is the spiritual wellbeing of their children. We want our children to be saved, to be part of the company of the redeemed. We yearn for the blessing of God’s covenant grace to be on our children. View Resource
Tedd Tripp
Dr. Tedd Tripp is an author, conference speaker, and elder at Grace Fellowship Church in Hazelton, Pa. He is author of Shepherding a Child’s Heart and, with his wife, Margy, Instructing a Child’s Heart.
