How to Create a Christian Home, Christianity at Home, Lesson 3, The Devotionals, 7-11

Jesus himself seems to have become independent, or to have made himself independent, from his family. We read at one place in Luke that he had no place to lay his head. When he was calling me to be his disciples, he pointed out that not even good, pious acts like burying one’s father or going to tell one’s family goodbye could be allowed to stand in the way of doing what God calls a man to do. But in terms even more drastic, he says that unless a man hates his own father and mother and wife and children, … Continue reading How to Create a Christian Home, Christianity at Home, Lesson 3, The Devotionals, 7-11

What is a Christian Home?, Christianity at Home, Lesson 3, The Devotionals, 1-3

For years, people who are nominally Christians have been preached at and teached at to have a Christian home. The reason for this continual preaching has been that every one has recognized the value and desirability of a Christian home, while no one has been able exactly to achieve it. Forgiveness is all right in general, but when sister teases brother about his girlfriend, then forgiveness doesn’t apply. If parents and children differ about privileges and discipline, love is apt to be temporarily forgotten. Perhaps we are really not clear about what a Christian home is. Christianity is based on … Continue reading What is a Christian Home?, Christianity at Home, Lesson 3, The Devotionals, 1-3