Passing down our Christian Faith to our Children

I loved this post by Mrs. June Fuentes, from A Wise Woman Builds Her Home. This has been my prayer for myself as a mother, to be so intentional on instructing my children in the word of God and to be a godly example to them. What a high calling, but an incredible one the Lord has given to me. Here's a little snippet of what she wrote...
"I cannot emphasis enough the power of Christian instruction in the home. Many Christians do not know where to begin with this, especially if they are first generation, so I am offering this post for them. The purpose of Christian instruction and education is so that our children will learn about God correctly from us, hide the Word in their hearts, become saved as a result (not always but many will), be eventually able to defend the Word and contend for it, make disciples and eventually help to reform culture as a result of what they know."
If you would like to read the rest go here... http://proverbs14verse1.blogspot.com/2009/07/christian-instruction-in-home.html

Brief History of Education

-Article from: Considering Homeschooling Ministry, http://www.consideringhomeschooling.org/publicschools.html
For the first 200 years of education in North America, the primary goal of schooling was to foster religious devotion. The original Puritan and Separatist colonists, inheriting the Reformation's concern that everyone be able to read the Bible, opened schools for the purpose of teaching children how to study the Scriptures. A biblically literate population was seen as the best insurance for a successful society. Our founding fathers recognized that education should primarily serve to encourage faith in Christ. They acknowledged that civilization's health and very existence depended on people who understood and lived Christian principles.
George Washington said, "True religion affords government its surest support. The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of the youth. It is impossible to govern without the Bible." Noah Webster wrote, "The education of Youth is an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success."
In the 1830's, however, secular concepts began infiltrating the worldview of US citizens. Horace Mann, the "Father of American Public Education," conceived of an educational system without any religious creed (faith). This was the beginning of a long process of excluding God from public education. From this time on, education was seen increasingly as a tool to indoctrinate the public with secularism and humanism. Secularism seeks to remove God's existence, or at least His relevance, from reality. Humanism centers the universe on humanity, making man, rather than a divine creator, its most important being.
"Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?" wrote Charles Francis Potter, signer of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto & author of Humanism: A New Religion. Consider a Christian Home Education for your children. No other environment can provide the safety of a whole Christian worldview and Biblical education.

If I Were the Devil...

If I Were the Devil...
By Paul Harvey, Syndicated Columnist

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world.I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings.I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around.I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue.I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership.I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies.I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent machines to make it convenient.I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that the life of animals are valued more than human beings.I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit.I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them.I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the mind of every family member for my agenda.I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation.I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation.I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movie screens, and I would call it art.I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled.I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agenda as politically correct.I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and the Bible is for the naïve.I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional.I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.

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