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Raising Our Children

As part of a new social order, we have a different culture from the rest of society. We have different goals and different standards. We serve the God of Abraham and want to train our children to keep His way — to always do what is right and fair. That’s why we home-school our children and make opportunities to include them in what we do. We want to equip them to make wise choices, and not be swayed by the media manipulation and love of pleasure that drives the modern world. We want them to understand the value of the treasure we have found, and to appreciate the One who rescued us from a lonely and futile existence.

The Unintentional Destruction of Intentional Communities
To destroy is to spoil so that restoration is impossible, to break down or break up. How many communities have broken down or broken up due to the impossibility of perfecting the human nature? How...
A Direct Pipeline to God
(A Story for our Children) Moses was a beautiful baby boy. His parents were determined to save his life, since Pharaoh had ordered that all male Hebrew boys would be put to death. They placed him in...
Who Made Me a Judge?
The book of Acts records a clear example of how the state should function in a secular society. The separation of church and state is supported by the story of Paul before the Roman proconsul, Gallio...
The New Social Order
  The lion had been the undisputed king of the beasts. No one dared say otherwise. He had it all — the survival of the fittest. He was at the top of this social order, right or wrong. He...
The Messianic Communities in the European Union: An Issue of Parental Authority
I. INTRODUCTION At this International Conference on the future of Religious and Spiritual Minorities as we move into the 21st century, it is appropriate to ask the following questions:
What Makes For Appalling Behavior
"He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him." -Proverbs 13:24 Spare the rod and spoil the child the old adage says. Sparing the rod,...
When the Spanking Stopped
When the spanking stopped, the bastardization of America began...
Getting Back Together: Interview with Robert Houriet
When we interviewed Robert Houriet in 1987, he was a for-real fifty-year-old hippie, living on an organic farm in Hardwick, Vermont. Like thousands in the ’60s, the Movement kindled a spark of...