Posts with the category “the-household”

There is a lot of talk about the household in Christian circles these days, much of it good (On this note, we heartily recommend C.R. Wiley’s two books, Man of the House and The Household and the War ...  Read More

IntroductionVideo games are the magical invention of an imaginary world. To play the game is to conquer a pretend planet. All power in that world is just one click away.  You see what isn’t real and b...  Read More

IntroductionChristian high school and homeschooling curricula increasingly require a “career prep” class. Modern people think of a career as a lifetime occupation or profession that requires special t...  Read More

1 Corinthians 7:2-5, “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, a...  Read More

IntroductionHebrews 13:4, “Let marriage be held in honor by all.”Marriage must be honored. Elsewhere in the New Testament, this word for “honor” is translated as precious. So we read of “gold, silver,...  Read More

“In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were...  Read More

Biblical patriarchy expects wives to submit to their husbands. Hyper-patriarchy expects husbands to regularly remind wives of their duty to submit. In contrast to hyper-patriarchy, husbands need to fo...  Read More

IntroductionIn Dante’s Purgatorio, pride is the first sin punished. Penitents carry heavy boulders on their back, forcing proud heads to stoop so the gaze of their smug eyes never leaves the earth. El...  Read More

Somewhere a faithful Christian father leads his family in evening devotion. He looks across the room over which he presides. Before him stretches chaos. One child is rolling on the ground. The firstbo...  Read More