A Paradise Upon Earth
Those families wherein this service of God [family worship] is performed, are (as it were) little churches, yea, even a kind of Paradise upon earth. ~ William Perkins
What a Little Girl Did
A good many years ago, a little girl twelve years old was passing the old brick prison in the city of Chicago, on her way to school, when she saw a hand beckoning to her from a cell window, and … Continued
If You Don’t Teach Them
“The primary responsibility for teaching your children about God is yours, dear parent. It is not the Sunday school’s, the Church’s, nor the Pastor’s. God has entrusted this important work to you. If you do not invest your time and … Continued
A Lesson from the Vine
A faithful minister of the Gospel called one day, to visit a member of his church, who had lately met with a great trial, and was very impatient under it, and complained of being hardly dealt with. On reaching the … Continued
Neglecting Family Worship
In church history, there have been periods when neglecting family worship was considered an offense that necessitated church discipline. Here is a paragraph from the Directory for Family Worship that was drafted in 1647. “The Assembly doth further require and … Continued
The Goodness of God in Affliction
A Sunday-school teacher had a moveable alphabet, which he used in his class to spell out the most important truth taught in the lesson they were studying. One day, the lesson which he wished them to remember, was this, “The … Continued
A Lesson from the Sculptor
This story refers to a good Christian mother. She had been visited with a long and painful illness, which she bore with great patience and cheerfulness. Her sufferings were so great at times, as to make it very trying to … Continued
Parental Responsibility
The 19th century Baptist pastor, Charles Spurgeon, said this of the parent’s responsibility to shepherd their children: “The more of parental teaching the better; ministers, and Sabbath-school teachers were never meant to be substitutes for mothers’ tears and fathers’ prayers … Continued
The Winged Messenger of God
A good man, who had served God for many years, was sitting one day, with several other persons, eating a lunch on a bank very near a deep mining pit. He was the nearest of them all to the mouth … Continued
The Father as Shepherd
“Abraham had in his tent a house of God and a church, just as today any godly and pious head of a household instructs his children in…godliness. Therefore such a house is actually a school and church and the head … Continued