Jonathan Haidt. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2024. Abigail Shrier. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. New York, NY: Sentinel, 2024. Parenting…
Children are a gift from the Lord. Instructing one’s children to follow the Lord is a sacred undertaking, filled with both deep challenges and profound joys. But it is also a duty. While many such examples can be proffered from…
There may be no better example of the Reformation in action than in the home life of the Puritans, who masterfully applied God’s Word to every area of life and developed a biblical, positive, and lavish perspective on the family…
Four days after being sworn in as the nation’s fiftieth vice president, J.D. Vance stood on stage at the nation’s premier pro-life event and declared, “I want more babies in the United States of America.”[1] Vance’s remarks were not unexpected,…
God’s creation of mankind as male and female in His image grounds human dignity, undergirds the institution of marriage, and establishes the natural family through procreation (Gen 1:27–28; 2:24). God has established the family prior to the state to be…
When it comes to raising children, what is the goal? Admitting there are many things we should accomplish, are they all equally important? To get at this question, let’s posit three bins representing the following categories: first-order, secondary, and, tertiary…
Imagine you’re cleaning up after your mother’s fiftieth birthday party when she pulls you aside, her expression uneasy. She takes your hands and says, “I need to tell you something. You have two sisters you’ve never known about.” Shock and…
I was riding through the Romanian countryside when my host pointed to a large flock of sheep. At the head of the flock was a shepherd who was driving several goats. Behind followed the flock of sheep. My host observed,…
Some of the thorniest issues in our culture are occurring at the overlap of church, state, and family. Modern evangelicals are, perhaps, most comfortable thinking of these things as separate. The Baptists largely convinced most Reformed Protestants of some kind…
It’s a curious story, this drama unfolding in the lives of two women, each one an unlikely choice to participate in the gate-crashing of the universe. God chose women and wombs to house men. And what men! One, the messenger…
Earlier this month, CBMW hosted our annual West Coast conference at Compass Bible Church with Pastor Mike Fabarez in Orange County, California. Video of all of the main sessions as well as all of the breakouts is available in the…
I have three young children who each profess faith in Jesus Christ. As we bring them up, my wife and I are continually reminded that we are doing so in an age that is hostile to the Kingdom of Christ…
