Blog… Impossible Parenting – What I’m Reading 30 Sep 2005 "The task of parenting is simply impossible. Any sane look at what is required of parents by God is completely and utterly overwhelming. This is why the task must be…
Blog… Inescapable Discipline – What I’m Reading 26 Sep 2005 "The fact that discipline is occurring in a home doesn't mean the children are being disciplined in godliness. Often the standard of discipline is merely selfishness on the part of…
Blog… Demeanor – What I’m Reading 20 Sep 2005 "Language cannot be limited to the set boundaries of the propositional. The connotative value of words carries as much freight as the strict denotative value of words. In addition to…
Blog… Memories and Knowledge – What I'm Reading 16 Sep 2005 "Most of what shapes the character of children as they grow will not be consciously remembered. Because we have been well-trained by certain rationalistic methods of education, we think someone…
Blog… A Liturgy of Spanking – What I’m Reading 15 Sep 2005 "The liturgy of spanking often teaches as much as the spanking itself does. A child when grown will no doubt have forgotten all the various offenses he 'caught it' for.…
Blog… Odious Comparisons – What I’m Reading 13 Sep 2005 "One of the more grievous sins committed by parents against their children is the sin of comparing them to one another. 'Why can't you be more like your sister?' 'Your…
Blog… Are You Alive? 9 Sep 2005 "Years ago, Dr. G. Campbell Morgan said publicly that by no means every Christian can remember the time when he was born again. After the meeting, someone challenged his statement.…
Blog… Christian School Discipline 9 Sep 2005 "A genuinely Christian handling of discipline is a costly thing; it cannot be achieved without the expenditure of precious hours. The brusque interview and the routine infliction of penalty may…
Blog… Stupid Christians 9 Sep 2005 "There is, unfortunately, a feeling in some quarters today that there is something innately wrong about learning, and that to be spiritual one must also be stupid. This tacit philosophy…
Blog… St. Paul and Mr. Hyde 9 Sep 2005 "Stevenson gives us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but St. Paul in a single mighty paragraph at the end of the seventh chapter of the Epistle of Romans lays bare…
Blog… Squabbles – What I’m Reading 7 Sep 2005 "Brothers and sisters quarrel and squabble with one another. Parents intervene, try to sort things out, and generally restore order. What happens when order is not really restored but moves…
Blog… Parental Sin – What I’m Reading 6 Sep 2005 "Parents are sinners as well as children, and under the hand of the Lord, parents are children as well as children. This means everyone in the household, not just the…
Blog… A Cleansing – What I’m Reading 5 Sep 2005 "Parents who discipline their children faithfully and regularly need to know it's almost certain they still miss things. In other words, in a disciplined household, kids still get away with…
Blog… True Learning 30 Aug 2005 "True learning is revealed in character; it is not a matter of courses or degrees or preparation for a job… [it] is normative: it measures what is against what ought…
Blog… The Threat of Scientific Knowledge 30 Aug 2005 "Where knowledge grows without wisdom and without reverence, it threatens both our humanity and our world. Yet modern man suppresses his natural desire to throw himself in the path of…
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