The best Christians should be the best husbands, best wives, best parents, best children, best magistrates, best subjects, that the doctrine of God might be adorned, not blasphemed.
– John Geree –
1646 AD
The Best Christians – John Geree
Jesus Must Be Your First Love – Leslie Ludy
Until Jesus Christ is the obsession of your heart, you’ll always be looking to mere men to meet your needs that only Him can fill. Only when you make Jesus Christ your first love, will you be ready for a love story that reflects His glory.
– Leslie Ludy –
Faith Must Impact Everything – Elisabeth Elliot
A faith that doesn’t impact your daily life — your home, your marriage, your family, your work, etc — is no faith at all.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Kids Throughout the Decades – Ravi Zacharias
In the 1950s kids lost their innocence. They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term—the generation gap.
In the 1960s, kids lost their authority. It was a decade of protest—church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.
In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self. Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion. … It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.
In the 1980s, kids lost their hope. Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.
In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.
In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.
– Ravi Zacharias –
The Duties of Parents – JC Ryle
Samuel, in the days of his childhood, appears to have ministered unto the Lord some time before he really knew Him. “Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him” (1 Sam. 3:7). The Apostles themselves do not seem to have understood all that our Lord said at the time that it was spoken: “These things understood not His disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of Him” (John 12:16).
Parents, comfort your minds with these examples. Be not cast down because your children see not the full value of the means of grace now. Only train them up to a habit of regular attendance. Set it before their minds as a high, holy, and solemn duty, and believe me, the day will very likely come when they will bless you for your deed.
– JC Ryle –
from The Duties of Parents
Martin Luther on Wives and Husbands
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
– Martin Luther –
Married to the One You Love – Hudson Taylor
Oh, to be married to the one you do love, and love most tenderly and devotedly… that is bliss beyond the power of words to express or imagination to conceive.
– Hudson Taylor –
Uncommon Marriage Union – Jonathan Edwards
Give my kindest love to my dear wife, and tell her that the uncommon union which has so long subsisted between us has been of such a nature as I trust is spiritual and therefore will continue forever.
– Jonathan Edwards –
God Always Gives His Best – Jim Elliot
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.
– Jim Elliot –