Touchstone Archives: Education Normal

Touchstone Archives: Education Normal
This is an excellent article on what it means to raise “normal” kids from the Christian perspective and the world’s perspective.
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Visit to Jamestown, VA

We took our family vacation to the Tidewater area of Virginia this past week. We visited Jamestown, Yorktown, and Colonial Williamsburg. and for me, the trip to Jamestown was the highlight of our trip to the Tidewater.

It was something to stop and realize that my own ancestors got off a ship from England as indentured [...]

Quality Children’s Christian Books

Little Son asks almost every night for the Parson to read to him before he goes to bed. We’ve run through the gamut of the familiar classics–there are some fine stories out there  about unruly trains who go off the tracks, slow-moving puppies, and tugboats who get too big for their britches. Fine works, all–but [...]

Adventures in Plumbing

Lovely Wife’s sink had been out of commission since January. Both the cold and hot sides developed a drip, and not wanting to waste water (or $), I shut off the taps.  We shared my side.
I was convinced the stems were bad. Our water has so much lime in it that it practically comes out [...]

Duties of Parents & Praying For Your Children

The Briefing, an Australian evangelical magazine that I enjoy reading online has put up two articles on “the duties of parents.” Both articles are from J.C. Ryle–evangelical British pastor and bishop who lived until 1901.Regular readers of this blog (and listeners to my sermons) know that Ryle is someone I think needs to be read [...]

The family that prays together…

You know what a cliché is—“a hackneyed phrase.”  Here is something people sometimes say as a cliché: “the family that prays together, stays together.”  I believe this phrase is more than a cliché, I believe it is really true, and it seems that Scripture supports it.
            We are told in the second chapter of Luke’s [...]

Parenting & Bringing Children to Faith

G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945) was one of the world’s foremost evangelical Bible teachers. His ministry began in England, and then moved to America, and then back to England, and then back to America once again. He was well known on both sides of the Atlantic as being a knowledgable expositor of God’s Word. His daughter-in-law, [...]

Fathers and Sons

I’ve been preaching a series of messages from I Samuel this summer. Early in the book, we learn that Eli, the chief priest, had two sons: Hophni and Phinehas.
These two sons were rogues. They were greedy, immoral, and “worthless,” according to Scripture. They didn’t care about God’s religious regulations and took offerings from the people [...]