Training your toddler to battle porn
The battle against porn starts while your son is still in diapers…
Ruling a household
These posts focus on how to be a good shepherd to your wife and children by planning, building, and rightly ordering your family.
A primer on how to lead your wife, part 3: leading means calling
We get asked how to lead a wife more than anything else. We break it down like this: you lead your wife by following Jesus, requiring her to follow in your tracks, and calling her to do so. This may seem simplistic, but it is a sure foundation. In this series we’ll look at each of these three elements in turn.
A primer on how to lead your wife, part 2: leading requires following
We get asked how to lead a wife more than anything else. We break it down like this: you lead your wife by following Jesus, requiring her to follow in your tracks, and calling her to do so. This may seem simplistic, but it is a sure foundation. In this series we’ll look at each of these three elements in turn.
A primer on how to lead your wife, part 1: leading means following
We get asked how to lead a wife more than anything else. We break it down like this: you lead your wife by following Jesus, requiring her to follow in your tracks, and calling her to do so. This may seem simplistic, but it is a sure foundation. In this series we’ll look at each of these three elements in turn.
Ms. Wrong, part 2: loudness
The second installment of our serial guide to considering a possible helpmeet. Here we focus on what Scripture says about loudness in women, and how to spot it.
Attending church is entering the heavenly court
The concept of “on earth, as in heaven” applies to worship just as much as to doing God’s will day by day. When we attend church, we are entering spiritually into a heavenly reality—which has serious ramifications for our worship.
Ms. Wrong, part 1: immodesty
The first installment of our serial guide to considering a possible helpmeet. Here we focus on what Scripture says about modesty in women, and how to apply this in the modern day.
If marriages should be fruitful, can we use contraceptives?
While contraceptives are not intrinsically wrong, the ordering of a marriage toward fruitlessness is—and contraceptives often end up being used to establish such a pattern.
Fruitfulness is normal
From the beginning, God established children as the natural fruit of marriage. Barrenness is a curse—so why would believers voluntarily bring it upon themselves?
How to do family religion, as told by Michael
Devotional time with your family is one of the key ways a man shepherds his house. Here’s how Michael does it.