What About Christian Schools?
What About Christian Schools?
As a father who has increasingly come to believe that home education is the best method of raising children, I am very interested in the reasoning of those who support public schooling or private Christian education.
Recently I saw a book called The Christian School, by Noel Weeks, and I bought it in order to find out the biblical basis for sending children to Christian schools. What I found was some great reasons… Continue reading
Educating Children – Whose Job Is It?
Educating Children – Whose Job Is It?
According to the Bible, whose responsibility is it to educate children:
- the government’s job?
- the local church’s job?
- the parent’s job?
The government wants to teach children secular humanism, sex education, so-called safe sex, alternative lifestyles, evolution, situational ethics, and contemporary views on the roles of men and women. The local church usually wants to segregate people by age and wants to make sure that their programs are worldly enough so that they… Continue reading
Bob Bush: Once A Jesuit, Now A Child Of God
Once A Jesuit, Now A Child Of God
by Bob Bush
Introduction
I began my Catholic journey in a little country town in northern California in the U.S.A. The town was so small that we did not have Mass every Sunday, but a priest used to come once a month if he possibly could to hold Mass in a big public hall. I have both an older and a younger brother. My father had been trained at the… Continue reading
Jacob Bicks’ Testimony
Jacob Bicks’ Testimony
(Born 1657, Died at approximately age 7)
Jacob Bicks, the brother of Susannah Bicks, was born in Leyden, in the year 1657. He fell sick on the sixth of August, 1664, three or four weeks before his sister. In his distemper he was very sleepy, until almost dead. When he awoke, he was often praying.
Once when his parents had prayed with him, they asked him, if they should once more send for the physician?… Continue reading
John Sudlow’s Testimony
John Sudlow’s Testimony
(Died in childhood in 1665, exact age unknown)
John Sudlow was born of religious parents, in the county of Middlesex in England. They were careful to instill spiritual principles into him as soon as he was capable of understanding them. Those endeavors the Lord blessed with success. When he was scarce able to speak plain, he seemed to have a very great awe and reverence of God upon his spirit, and a strange sense of the… Continue reading