Voddie Baucham’s The Children of Caeser (DVD)
February 12, 2008
Just Released ! The Children of Caeser
Dr. Voddie Baucham knows what most parents are too quick to dismiss: whoever is teaching our children is also discipling them. Voddie persuasively argues that Christian parents need to take the initiative in their children’s education and stop turning them over to the anti-God environment of the government school. Using Scripture, statistics, and sound reasoning, Voddie powerfully makes the case that whoever controls the schools does indeed control the world.
You will also want to consider Dr. Baucham’s latest book, Family Driven Faith
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Family Driven FaithBy Voddie Baucham / Good News & Crossway
Family Driven Faith equips Christian parents with the tools they need to raise children biblically in a post-Christian, anti-family society. Voddie Baucham, who with his wife has overcome a multi-generational legacy of broken and dysfunctional homes, shows that God has not left us alone in raising godly children. He has given us timeless precepts and principles for multi-generational faithfulness, especially in Deuteronomy 6. God’s simple command to Moses to teach the Word diligently to the children of Israel serves as the foundation of Family Driven Faith. |
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February 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
I’ve read Dr. Baucham’s “Family Driven Faith” and I love his focus. I have practiced family devotional worship in my home with my children for several years; (probably not as devoutly as Brother Voddie) but I’m working with the limited gifts the good Lord has given me.
I’ve learned from hard knocks that the most important aspect is not the quality (by my perception), but in the quantity and consistency. We pray the traditional “Way of the Cross” every Friday night during lent, light a candle, and have a scripture reading. Sounds very peaceful and holy, but it also involves snacks being thrown at each other and kicking under the table. I think the most important lesson I’ve learned through family worship is that my children are always watching and listening to ME. (And they are the ultimate hypocrite detectors). Just when I think they are not paying attention, I sneak up and see (acted out in their room) my 4 year old (young Simon of Cyrene) help his 2 year old brother who has stumbled under the weight of the cross.
I greatly commend most of the “Family Driven Faith” book, but I disagree with the focus of his last section on education. (which I assume is the topic of his latest work):
1. I have nothing against Christian schools or home schooling, because parents are and should always be the primary educators of the children. Any school should exist to ASSIST parents in THEIR responsibility.
2. Many “Christian” schools are no different culturally than public schools in America. Parents think they are doing the good Christian thing by sending Jr. off somewhere that has public prayer, good Christian music, books, good Christian kids, and all the best that money can buy expecting all of this to magically rub off on Jr. But the sad truth is that most families at these schools have the same “entertainment driven” mindset, divorce rates, contraception rates, and celebrity obsession as the rest of America. And when these good Christian kids grow up and realize that, they leave the faith in droves.
3. I have one child in public school already and the rest will be going also. I realize that I am exposing them to different influences, and dangerous situations; but I am not raising my children to be cowards. I may be sending them out among “strangers and sojourners”, but their mother and I (and more importantly Christ) goes with them.
4. Some people involved in government schools may be trying to establish an “anti-God” environment; but is there any more important battlefield that exists in America? People may fight to keep God out of the classroom, but I believe God is bigger than that. Dr. Baucham may prefer to have his family and good Christian families be separated from the culture (Has there ever been a good Baptist that wasn’t a Separatist at heart?) But if we really want to be “evangelical”, is there any better place to evangelize people in America than by being involved with families in the public school system? You can’t keep putting up bigger and bigger signs and expect them to come to your church or your good Christian school.