Tag Archives: children

Eliza Spurgeon became a mother at age nineteen. Her first born was a strong-willed boy named Charles. He would be followed by 16 more children, 9 of them would die in infancy. For Eliza, raising godly children meant leading them to salvation at the earliest of ages, before they could ...

Zechariah 4:10” Do not despise these small beginnings……. This certainly was the case in Bakersfield, California on May 14, 2014. Jeremy Triantafilo, a 4 year old was innocently riding his bicycle up the driveway. Suddenly out of thin air the next door neighbor’s dog raced around the corner running up ...

Zephaniah 3:17” ….he will quiet you by his love….” Remember when Jesus was asleep in the boat and a great tempest arose on the sea and quickly made the waters around the disciples’ boat very ugly? Have we ever found ourselves sailing along the sea of life in calm, placid ...

‘Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.’ Proverbs 1: 8-9 (ESV) The verse above, if presented to some’, may very likely invoke laughter and derision. Many people, including families, do not ...

Snot. Dirty diapers. Boo-boos. Puppy-faces. These are familiar turfs for her. She has had a personal encounter with each, and has mastered the art of alleviating every last one. She has been the on-call doctor, the twenty four hour nurse, and Mr. Clean. She has been a disciplinarian as well ...