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God's Workshop

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  • Laurie Vanden Heuvel

Where is God's workshop located? This article explains that it is found in three locations: the home, church, and school, and the author focuses especially on the location of the home.

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Christ, the Government, and Stay-at-Home Moms

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  • Doug Van Meter

This article considers how governments that reject Christ eventually adopt policies (regarding matters like marriage, children, and taxes) that attack God's design for the home. It shows how Christians can respond in such a situation: pursue revival in the land, pray, and work diligently at raising godly children.

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Heading for Home

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  • David Waldron

Christians are described as aliens and strangers in this world. This article shows that this characterization means that Christians are to live with a desire and longing for home. At the same time they are given a foretaste of heaven through the communion of saints. Wisdom is knowing how to live with this longing amidst struggles in this life.

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"My Home, Your Castle"

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  • Esther Smith

The challenge of showing hospitality is rooted not in what your home is like but in what your heart is like. Too many Christians offer excuses for why they cannot practice hospitality.

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The Covenant Home, God's Ideal Institution for the Nurture of Children (2)

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  • Arie DenHartog

God instituted marriage and the Christian home as a place where covenant children can be molded to His requirements. Although the Christian home has been tainted with sin since the Fall, through Christ Christian parents have new hope and the means to fulfill their calling.

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The Covenant Home - God's Ideal Institution for the Nurture of Children (1)

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  • Arie DenHartog

God instituted marriage and the Christian home as a place where covenant children can be molded to His requirements. Although the Christian home has been tainted with sin since the Fall, through Christ parents have new hope and the means to fulfill their calling.

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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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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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Spiritual Conversations in our Covenant Homes

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  • Arie DenHartog

Looking at the text of Deuteronomy 6:6-9, this series of articles looks at how Christians can live covenant lives in the home. This article draws some guidlines for living covenant lives, urging parents to set times for regular conversations and formal instruction in the law of God. Parents can reflect this teaching in how they treat each other, handle their material possessions, and the way they talk about the church and office bearers.

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Covenant Life in the Home (3): Love for God in our Covenant Home

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  • Arie DenHartog

Looking at the text of Deuteronomy 6:6-9, this series of articles looks at how Christians can live covenant lives in the home. The foundation for the Christian family is love for God. This is basic to the structure of family life. The author draws images of what loving God looks like, describing practical implications of this love in the home.

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Covenant Life in the Home (2): Love for God in our Covenant Home

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  • Arie DenHartog

Looking at the text of Deuteronomy 6:6-9, this series of articles looks at how Christians can live covenant lives in the home. The foundation for the Christian family is love for God. This is basic to the structure of family life. The author draws images of what loving God looks like, describing practical implications of this love in the home. Love for God shapes the expression of love in the family.

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Covenant Life in the Home (1)

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  • Arie DenHartog

Looking at the text of Deuteronomy 6:6-9, this series of articles looks at how Christians can live covenant lives in the home. One can truly say that the home is the basic institution of society. This article shows that God instituted the home through the creation of marriage. He intended the home to be a place where covenantal life can be truly experienced.

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Homes as Havens (Again)

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  • Lisa Vaatstra

This article is about the importance of creating a home for the Christian family.

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Our Homes as Havens

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  • Lisa Vaatstra

This article is about creating a positive home environment for the family.

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Guarding the School Education: Our Common Calling

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  • T. M. P. Vanderven

This article is about the relation of school and home in the process of education. What is the function of the school, and how must we see the cooperation between parents and teachers?

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Cleanliness or Godliness?

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  • Sharon L. Bratcher

This article is about housekeeping, having a clean house, and making your house a home.

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The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. L. Weatherhead
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