- Mon, Jun 06, 2011
- Marriage and Family
The Impact of a Father Reading to His Child
Check out this touching story on a father and daughter and the power of reading to your children.
Randy Alcorn's Blog: parenting
- Wed, Feb 09, 2011
- Culture and Worldview
An Alarming Trend: the Illiteracy of Boys
My friends Brett and Alex Harris, on their wonderful website www.therebelution.com, cited a Wall Street Journal article about the importance of reading, and the great decline in reading among boys. I have often cited this as one of the most alarming trends of our day.
A Christ-centered Marriage Is Christ-centered Parenting
While researching a novel I’m writing based on the upcoming movie Courageous (from Sherwood Pictures), I recently read what I would call a GREAT book on parenting: Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting, William P. Farley (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2009).
- Fri, Aug 14, 2009
- Eternal Perspective Ministries
Paul Tripp on Motivation and Obedience in Children
I read this question, from Abraham Piper, and answer, from Paul Tripp, on the Desiring God blog. For those of you not familiar with Paul, he's the president of Paul Tripp Ministries, whose purpose is "to place the truths of the Gospel—the person and work of Jesus Christ—in the middle of the messy and confusing situations and relationships in which every person lives." He's also on the pastoral staff of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and is a professor at the Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, Texas.
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