The truest measure of a father’s love is not the estate he leaves his children, but the altar he keeps for them. A father cannot govern another heart, cannot purchase a child’s salvation, and cannot command tomorrow. He can bring that child, by name, before the God who searcheth the heart.
In the Bible a family is a people named of one father, set in God’s order, holding one inheritance, and redeemed by a…
The stability of a home rests upon a trust that hides nothing and a forgiveness that collects nothing.
God has so ordered the home that children render obedience and honour, and fathers render the Lord’s own nurture and admonition; where either part fails, the household fails with it.
I did not write these essays to win an argument with the age. I wrote them for a congregation in Coden, Alabama, who go home from a plain sermon on Sunday and spend the next six days inside systems built on the opposite assumption. The book is forty-six of those pieces, written across 2025 and, in a few cases, years before that, while I was on deputation for the work in Uganda. They were pastoral letters before they were chapters, and they read like it. My aim was never to make my people fluent in the age, but to leave them immovable in the Bible.
The spiritual government of the home requires us to reject both legalistic bondage and fleshly license, establishing instead a household of liberty governed by scriptural clarity, charitable preferences, and protective standards.
When a father’s appetite governs his eyes, his house will be governed by deception; a home keeps its sight only by trusting the voice of God above the feel of things.
A father’s personal obedience is the only soil in which his verbal instruction can take root; when a father’s life contradicts his lips,…
The Forge of Character in the Christian Home “Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for…
Before we can fully appreciate the masterpiece of womanhood painted in Proverbs 31, we must look at who is holding the brush. The…