The most important school for theology.

Where is the prime learning place for God's word? It is the home.

Home is where we learn to learn. It is where patterns of learning and thinking are modelled and formed—and taken into school, to church and into the rest of our lives. What is often sown and nurtured under the trellis of the home flourishes into later life accordingly.

What an exciting privilege and responsibility this is for parents! May you love teaching your children to love being taught by Jesus—his words are spirit and life; he is wisdom from God; and his words will never pass away!

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Train up a child in the way he should go; 

even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

Insights indebted to Phillip Jensen

Finding it hard to remember Scripture?

God has already given a solution to that problem:
Write it out then read it every day.

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When [the king] takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites. It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law to the right or left.

Deuteronomy 17:18-20

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

O: You've read it before. There's nothing new in it. So how do you keep coming back to the same book?

A: Every time I read God's word, Os, I learn something new.

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O God, from my youth you have taught me, 
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. 
So even to old age and gray hairs, 
O God, do not forsake me, 
until I proclaim your might to another generation, 
your power to all those to come.

Psalm 71:17-18