Ephesians 6:4: Parental Discipline
The main parental responsibilities of instruction, love and discipline can be assigned to the ways in which we mediate Christ’s mediatorship as prophet, priest and king. We have looked at our parental responsibilities as prophets...
Ephesians 6:4: The Priestly Duties of Parenting
Recently Kevin DeYoung in a blog article called ‘The World is Catechizing Us Whether we Realize It or Not,’ commenting on his recent experience of watching the Olympics he writes, ‘You couldn’t watch two weeks...
Ephesians 6:4: Instructing our Children
John Newton, the author of Amazing Grace, was born in 1725 and at the age of 7 his mother Elizabeth died of tuberculosis. She was sickly the whole of his childhood. One biographer writes: ‘Though...
Ephesians 6:4: Fathers
Father’s Day is approaching soon, but it has been called ‘an awkward holiday.’ It will not only be awkward because of the token gifts which seem to trivialize it, as has happened to Mother’s Day....
Ephesians 6:1-3: Children obey your parents: Part 3
Obeying your parents, why should we do it? On the one hand we have the pragmatic view of psychology which has finally admitted the age old wisdom of God’s ways and tells us that every...
Ephesians 6:1-3: Children obey your parents: Part 2
Obeying your parents, why should we do it? On the one hand we have the pragmatic view of psychology which has finally admitted the age old wisdom of God’s ways and tells us that every...
Ephesians 6:1-3: Children obey your parents: Part 1
The family today is under attack. This basic building block of society which has everywhere had a basic form of father, mother and children as the inner core and in laws and other extended family...