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Damaged Emotions in Children and Young People A Christian Perspective

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  • J. W. Van Pelt

What are the signs of emotional abuse and damaged emotions in children and young people? And how should we give pastoral care in these circumstances?

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Raising Christ-Like Children

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  • William Boekestein

This article discusses a helpful way in which parents and the broader body of Christ can bring up children to bear the image of Christ.

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Parents, Your Kids Need Big Theology

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  • Jessica Robyn Provencher

This article explains that your children need to be taught theology, through hymns, memorizing Scripture and reading together.

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How to Help Your Kids Read the Bible

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  • Chris Morphew

Are you looking for ways to help your children read the Bible for their personal devotions? Read the article for helpful suggestions.

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Four Unexpected Ways to Teach Your Kids about Grace

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  • Silverio Gonzalez

Christian parenting must model God's grace to the children. How do you teach children about grace in your parenting? This article shares four ways.

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How to View Our Children

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  • C. Vogelaar

How should you view your children? This article discusses seven things that must shape the way you view the training of children as parents.

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Five Misconceptions about Parenting That Will Hinder Your Children from Coming to Jesus

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  • Starr Meade

What are commonly held misconceptions about what is best for children, and how do they hinder us in practicing piety in our families? This article lists five misconceptions about parenting.

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Jehovah's Perfect Parental Discipline

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  • Joel R. Beeke

What do the Scriptures say about the discipline of the Lord? This article provides nine characteristics of such perfect parental discipline, which parents are also called to follow in the disciplining of their children.

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Social Media and Middle School

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  • Jim Stitzinger

When do you open the door for your children to access social media? This article provides a number of talking points for parents to cover with their children.

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Why Christian Parents Should Not Want Good, Happy, Safe Kids

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  • David E. Prince

This article discusses what cruciform, or cross-centered, parenting looks like. It confronts rather than ignores sin in the life of the children. It trains the children toward moral and physical courage.

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Book – God's Children in Worship

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  • Harry Boonstra

This article introduces the book God's Children in Worship as a resource and guide to help churches who are serious about teaching children (and adults) about worship,

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How a Biblical Worldview Shapes the Way We Teach Our Children

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  • Timothy Paul Jones

This article discusses how having a biblical worldview impacts how we treat and train our children. Scripture reveals that they are gifts from God and yet sinners in need of redemption. The training they are to receive includes both formal and informal components.

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Let the Children Come to Me – An Interview with Norman Thomasma

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  • Harry Boonstra

This article reflects an interview with a pastor on the importance of children as part of the worship service.

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Comfort for Christian Parents of Unconverted Children

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  • Jim Elliff

This article draws comfort for Christian parents with unconverted children by pointing to the work of God and the continuous call to pray for their children.

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Like Cat, Like Kitten!

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  • Charles H. Spurgeon

This article looks at the great influence mothers have on children, and aims to encourage mothers to use this influence to raise children to the glory of God.

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Children's Bulletins – An Aid to Worship

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  • Faye Fredricks

Many congregations make use of children's bulletins to help bridge the generation gap in worship. Making use of pictures and quizzes, such bulletins involve the children in the service and answer some of the questions children ask about worship and general church life. This article gives some suggestions on how to use such a bulletin to enhance the participation of children in the worship service.

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Discipline of Covenant Children

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  • Wilbur G. Bruinsma

Christian parents are called to raise their children within the covenant calling God gave them. Part of this is that they are called to apply discipline to the children. How do parents do this? What is the purpose of this discipline? This article shows the biblical roots for discipline and the way it can be applied positively and negatively, then looks at the purpose of discipline.

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Five "Do Nots" of Fatherhood

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  • R. Kent Hughes

This article presents five things for fathers to avoid in raising their children: criticism, overstrictness, irritability, inconsistency, and favoritism.

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Martin Luther, the Loving Father

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  • Carl R. Trueman

This article shows how Martin Luther was a family man who loved children, and wrote about child-rearing himself. It also highlights how he had to grieve multiple times on account of losing children.

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What Jesus Thinks about Children

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  • R. Kent Hughes

This article considers how the Lord Jesus in his ministry regarded children. Mark 10 is one text that is given some attention.

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Five Reasons to Keep the Kids In

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  • Nicholas T. Batzig

This article stresses the importance of having the little children in the worship service.

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Teaching Our Children to Pray

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  • Tim Challies

Should parent be teaching children to pray when the children haven't professed their faith? This article looks at the biblical guidance on how and when to teach our children to pray.

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Children in Church

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  • Catherine MacKenzie

Together with adults, children are part of the church. However, what is the place of children in church? This article gives practical suggestions on how children can be integrated in the church and what should be the role of Sunday school.

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What's the Purpose of ... Children?

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  • Tim Challies

Should you have children? We live in an age where children are seen as a means of self-realization or an accessory to the good life. What is the purpose of children? This article explains.

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Talking with Your Kids about the Sermon

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  • Joe Holland

How can parents talk with their children about the sermon? This article is aimed at helping parents in this area, giving eight guidelines to that end.

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When a Child Says "I Don't Know"

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  • Julie Lowe

Is "I don't know" a refrain from your children in response to your questions regarding their behaviour? This article shows how parents, teachers, or other caregivers can often use this as a cue to let a child off the hook instead of calling heart motivations to task. Thus, the author suggests ways to handle this response in an effort to disciple the children God entrusts to us.

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How We Live as Children and Teenagers

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  • James W. Beeke

This article shows how children and teenagers can obey God's command to honour their parents in a way that is pleasing to God.

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The Unwavering Parent & Teacher

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  • James W. Beeke

Unbelieving parents and believing parents have hopes for their children. What this article shows is that their hope is based on different grounds. The unbelieving parents' hopes for their children is in their child, while the believing parents rest in God.

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Raising Our Children to Be Gatekeepers

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  • Joel R. Beeke

By teaching children the virtues of truth, goodness, and beauty, showing them Christ, and instilling the fear of God in them, parents can raise children who are gatekeepers. Let this article show you how from biblical examples.

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Honoring & Exercising Authority

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  • Joel R. Beeke

This article shows that parents exercise authority on behalf of God, and children are called to submit. The author shows ways in which children can honour the authority of their parents, and how parents can exercise their authority.

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Practical Guidelines for Ministry to Children in the Church

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  • Joel R. Beeke

This article shows that children are part of the church. Parents and the church must involve them in the worship service. Let this article give those practical guidelines.

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Parental Resolutions

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  • Cotton Mather

This article gives resolutions that parents must take in fulfilling their parental role of imparting wisdom and education in children.

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How to View Children in the Church

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  • Joel R. Beeke

Children in the church must be seen through the eye of the covenant. Within the covenant God works to meet their needs of knowing him, and calls them to respond to him in faith. This article shows how this view shapes the place children have in church.

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The Benefits of Good Habits

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  • Diana Kleyn

This article aims at encouraging children and parents to develop good habits for praying, reading the Bible, keeping godly company, and singing. These habits, when used well, will be of great benefits to God's children as means of grace.

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Bringing Up Children

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  • William MacLeod

This article paints the realities of bringing up children. It shows parents that children need to be saved, and parents have the promises of God to fulfill their parental calling. Teaching them God’s word and continually offering prayers for them is crucial.

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Where Have All the Children Gone?

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  • John Rogers

Should children be part of the worship service? In this article the author shows that by understanding the covenantal nature of worship, one can see that when God calls his covenant people he calls families. In the worship service, children can learn that life is not about them, but about worshipping God.

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Marriage, Family and the Civil Authority A Theological and Ethical Perspective

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  • D. J. Steensma

This article looks at the characteristics of biblical marriage and shows how the covenant structure informs the relationship between husband and wife, children and parents, and the public character of marriage.

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Where Have All the Children Gone?

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  • John Rogers

Understanding that children are God’s gift in a marriage, and that he gives them for the increase of mankind and his church, should make us rethink the priority of children in marriage. These facts must challenge the claims of overpopulation, and free up Christians to enjoy the gift of children in the service of God.

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Why We Should Teach Our Children the Ten Commandments

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  • Erroll Hulse

This article discusses the value in educating our children on the Ten Commandments. It points to the law's centrality throughout Scripture, and gives a fourfold summary of its purpose. It concludes with some important considerations as we teach the law to our children.

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Training Children to Worship

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  • Harriet Haverland

The best place to start training children is at home through family devotion. Children learn from the attitude parents have on Saturday evening before the Sunday worship service. This article discusses ways of training your children so that they understand how to worship in church.

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The High Calling to Shepherd Small Souls

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  • Doug Barnes

Elders have a responsibility to shepherd children by ensuring that they receive the sign and seal of the covenant through baptism, and that their parents understand their responsibility to nurture those children.

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Child and Worship

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  • Thijs Oosterhuis

Both the Old and New Testament show that God delights in seeing children be part of the assembly of His people. Parents therefore have a responsibility to nurture children in the faith and guide them through the worship service. The church also carries this responsibility.

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Kids, Character, and Catechism

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  • L. Charles Jackson

When we develop the character of our children, we mark their souls morally and ethically. This parenting involves ploughing and planting the Word of God in them. One tool God provides for this is the catechism. The catechism provides children with solid, thorough knowledge in today’s confusing world. It gives a workable framework within which we can live.

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Does Infant Baptism Still Matter?

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  • James Visscher

Infant baptism should not be treated as a minor issue, because it speaks about God and His work, God’s people, and the covenant. It is also a source of comfort for parents of children who pass away before they have a chance to express their faith in Christ.

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Fathers: The Glory of Children

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  • Allen Brummel

Is your father someone you can glory in? God gave parents abilities and opportunities to provide for their children. He also gave them authority over their families, has endowed them with life experience, and has made them His representative. All of these things qualify their parenting call, and makes them deserving of respect.

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Go Ask Your Parents!

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  • Martin VanderWal

Children should ask their parents for guidance in the way of God’s wisdom. This article gives reasons why children should do this, how they can do this, and the resultant benefits they will experience.

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Giving Our Sons and Daughters in Marriage - Our Covenantal Responsibility (2)

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  • Arie DenHartog

Parents have a responsibility toward their children when it comes to their children marrying. The Bible tells us that believers should not be "unequally yoked" with unbelievers in marriage. This article shows the way such a mindset can be cultivated through family instruction in children's lives while they are still young.

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Giving Our Sons and Daughters in Marriage - Our Covenantal Responsibility (1)

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  • Arie DenHartog

Parents have a responsibility toward their children when it comes to their children marrying. The Bible tells us that believers should not be "unequally yoked" with unbelievers in marriage. This article shows the way such a mindset can be cultivated through family instruction in children's lives while they are still young.

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Disciplining Our Covenant Children in Love (2)

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  • Arie DenHartog

God has called parents to administer discipline toward their children. This article shows how parents should administer this discipline.

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Disciplining Our Covenant Children in Love (1)

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  • Arie DenHartog

This article looks at parents' biblical calling to administer discipline toward their children. This discipline is guided and limited by God's word and love for God and the child.

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The Discipline of Our Covenant Children (3)

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  • Arie DenHartog

This article looks at the biblical call for parents to administer corrective discipline toward their children in order to keep them from the path of sin.

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The Discipline of Our Covenant Children (2)

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  • Arie DenHartog

This article discusses the foundation behind discipline in the Christian home based on the covenant and God's word. The author highlights what the relationship between parents and children should look like, and what Christian discipline involves.

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The Discipline of Our Covenant Children (1)

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  • Arie DenHartog

This article discusses the foundation behind discipline in the Christian home based on the covenant and God's word. The author highlights what the relationship between parents and children should look like, and what Christian discipline involves.

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Raising our Covenant Daughters

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  • Arie DenHartog

God's covenant call has an impact on how parents should raise their children. This article focuses on parenting daughters as covenant children. Enabling daughters to fulfill their calling and role means teaching them the virtues of being a godly woman.

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In the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord (2)

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  • Arie DenHartog

Ephesians 6:4 lays the foundation to Christian parenting. Exploring this text, the author of this article shows that the foundation to parenting lies in the guidance of the Lord Jesus Christ. He determines the extend of parenting and the obedience of children. This article discusses the respective roles of the father and mother.

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In the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord (1)

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  • Arie DenHartog

Ephesians 6:4 lays the foundation to Christian parenting. Exploring this text, the author of this article shows that the foundation to parenting lies in the guidance of the Lord Jesus Christ. He determines the extend of parenting and the obedience of children. This article discusses the respective roles of the father and mother.

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Father’s Authority in the Christian Home (2)

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  • Arie DenHartog

Parents are entrusted with the responsibility to rule over their children, guide their development, protect them from evil, and train them in the way of the Lord. This responsibility is given to them by God, and the father has a special role to play in the way he exercises his authority in the home. This article focuses on the way the father exercises his authority during the child's different stages of growth.

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Father’s Authority in the Christian Home (1)

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  • Arie DenHartog

Parents are entrusted with the responsibility to rule over their children, guide their development, protect them from evil, and train them in the way of the Lord. This responsibility is given to them by God, and the father has a special role to play in the way he exercises his authority in the home. This article shows that fathers should in their actions mirror our Father in heaven.

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Psalm 78 - It’s the Children

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  • Vernon Pollema

Based on Psalm 78, this article shows that parents have the obligation to pass on the faith to their children, so that their children can pass it on to the next generation. When this is not done, God’s church suffers.

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What to Think

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  • Richard DeVries

Should parents teach their children what and how to think? Is this not infringing on their rights and freedoms? This article gives one answer: God expects parents to teach children what and how to think.

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Marriage, Divorce, and Children (3)

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

This trilogy of articles looks at marriage, divorce, and the effects of divorce on children. This article focuses on the church's responsibility toward children of divorce.

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Marriage, Divorce, and Children (2)

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

This trilogy of articles looks at marriage, divorce, and the effects of divorce on children. This article looks at specific ways in which divorce does damage to children.

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Marriage, Divorce, and Children (1)

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

This trilogy of articles looks at marriage, divorce, and the effects of divorce on children. The author looks at the social, spiritual, and emotional impacts of divorce by looking at the stories of two adults.

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Teaching our Children

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  • Carl J. Haak

Three reasons motivate Christian parents to pursue Christian education for their children: instructing children in the ways of the Lord, instructing them only in the truth of God, and instructing them to serve God. The responsibility belongs to both parents and children - children are to be diligent in their studies, and parents are to be supportive. With this approach, Christian schools become a way of worshiping and glorifying God.

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A Mother Looks at the Sabbath Observance

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  • Shari Bosveld

Sunday can be a very busy day for a Christian mother. For mothers, Sundays still involve their daily work. This article gives some practical ways in which mothers can prepare for the Sabbath. How parents organise themselves around this day has a bearing on their children.

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Bringing Forth Children in an Age of Selfishness

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  • Allen Brummel

Parenting is hard work. This article discusses our calling in marriage. Children are a blessing of the Lord. The author also looks at when young couples should try and start a family.

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Holy Baptism: Sign of God’s Unconditional Covenant

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  • James A. Laning

Baptism is the visible sign of God’s grace to His church. This article looks at children of believers as members of the church, and also discusses infant baptism as believer's baptism.

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Discipline of Covenant Children

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  • Wilbur G. Bruinsma

Christian parents are called to raise their children within their covenant calling. Included in this calling is an obligation to discipline. This article looks at the biblical basis and purpose of dicipline, and how it can be used both positively and negatively.

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What Have We Done Wrong?

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  • Bill Clark

Why is it that some children raised in Christian homes rebel against Christ? This article deals with the guilt many parents have over the rebellion of their children. The author maintains that parents should not be discouraged in their parenting, but continue to teach and be examples while praying for the conversion of their children.

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The Power of Example

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  • J. C. Ryle

This article shows that living an exemplary life as parents is a powerful tool in parenting your children.

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The Blessing of Children

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  • A. Terpstra

This article is about having children, discussing overpopulation, population restrictions, and the command to multiply and fill the earth (Genesis 1:28).

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Hey, What Are You Reading?

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  • Arthur Kingma

This article is about the task of parents to stimulate their children to read. The author discusses choosing books to read and using discernment in reading.

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A Biblical Relationship With Parents

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  • Sylvea Wong

This article gives suggestions for how children can build healthy relationships with their parents. The emphasis is on showing genuine love to one's parents.

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Children - Or is Tithing Only for Adults?

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  • Bill Dehaas

This article is about teaching children to tithe and work with money. 

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My Child Needs Discipline

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  • Clarence Bouwman

This article looks at the need for discipline. Our children have sinful hearts and needs to be shown the seriousness of their errors.

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Throwing Toys Out of the Pram

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  • Carl R. Trueman

This article is about coddling and over-protecting our children, and the effects of this on our children and society. 

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What's Right With That?

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  • John Younts

Based on Philippians 4:8-9 this article aims at helping parents encourage excellence in their children. It gives some practical ways of communicating with children in such a way that they are encouraged to do well. 

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Children at the Lord's Supper

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  • Jelle Tuininga

Should children be allowed to celebrate the Lord's Supper because of infant baptism? 

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Children Worshipping God

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  • Simonetta Carr

This article is about the place of children in the worship service and training children for the worship service.

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Is Infant Baptism Divisive?

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  • Bill DeJong

This article looks at baptism and Christian unity. The author also discusses children in the Word of God (passages like Mark 10:14 and Matthew 18:3)

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Children at the Lord’s Supper?

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  • Clarence Bouwman

Can childen also celebrate the Lord's Supper? The author also looks at children and the Passover meal in the Old Testament.

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Are Infants in the Church and Unbelievers Outside of it in the Same Position?

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  • Jakob Geertsema

This article is about the salvation of children and the position of children in the covenant. The author also discusses infant baptism, and the regeneration of children.

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Family Planning and Birth Control

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  • Jack Moesker

What are Christians supposed to think of family planning and birth control? This article looks at marriage and children, and also discusses Genesis 1:28 and 1 Timothy 5:14.

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God's Heart for Children

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  • A. J. MacDonald

This article is about the parenting of children, God the Father and his children, spiritual child abuse, and the place of fatherhood in parenting.

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Disastrous Times for Children

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  • Cornelis van Dam

This article is about parenting, and specifically about children and prosperity, children and the example of parents, and children's dependency on parents.

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Spanking Children and the Limits of the Civil Law

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  • P. C. Glover

This article is about disciplining children, specifically the spanking of children. The author also discusses civil law in this regard, as well as the injury to children in discipline.

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Children under the Preaching of the Word

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  • P. Niemeijer

This article is about the place of children in the church and in the worship service. The author also looks at the task of the parents with regards to the worship service.

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Disciplining our Children

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  • Cornelis van Dam

This article is about parenting, and specifically about children and discipline and punishment.

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How to Lead Your Children in Worship

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  • Charles M. Wingard

This article is about children and our worship service.

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Should Children Go to the Basement?

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  • Jakob Geertsema

This article is about children in the worship service.

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Who Speaks from the Pulpit?

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  • Jakob Geertsema

This article is about the place of the preacher in the worship service. The author also discusses Hebrews 10:22 and children in the worship service.

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"A Cry for the Cry-room"

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  • Michael G. Brown

This article is about the baby room in the church and the way we look at children and the worship service.

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For Time and Eternity

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  • Jack M. Gray

This article is about the role of husbands, wives and children in the family according to Colossians 3:18-20.

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Why Baptize Infants?

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  • Peter Y. De Jong

This article looks at the reasons for infant baptism (family baptism, the church included children and the fulfillment of OT promises) and the obligation that goes with the baptism.

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Are Some Fish Too Small?

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  • Roger S. Greenway

This article is about children and the importance to also focus on children in mission work.

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How Do We Dress?

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  • Otto Bouwman

This article reflects on what motivates children to dress as they do. There is often a degree of peer pressure, and a desire to fit in. The author makes a call for being stewardly and godly in our clothing.

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A Godly Father's Counsel to His Children

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  • Richard Brooks

This article is about examples in the past of fathers' godly counsel to their children.

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Being a Church Kid: Positives and Negatives

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  • James Visscher

This article is about growing up in the Christian church and in a Christian family. The author discusses the blessings and dangers of children growing up with the Christian faith.

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God Communicates and so Must We!

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  • Ron McKenzie

This article is about the importance of reckoning with children in the worship service.

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Can Children Worship?

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  • Allen D. Curry

This article is about teaching children how to worship.

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Of all graces, faith honours Christ most; therefore, of all graces Christ honours faith most Matthew Henry
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