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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 2 – Intermediate)
Topic: The Family Home (05/29/08)
After a hard day out in the battlefield of the world, home is where you can go to rejuvenate, get your armor cleaned and repaired and rest up for the next battle. It’s a place to let down your guard and relax, bond with your family and take the load of the world off, even if it only for a short time. Home is the firm foundation for children, a place they know they can feel safe and secure. Home should be a haven where love, peace and harmony abide. God intended for the family home to be a place where values are taught and practiced.

Deut. 1l: 18-20 (NIV)

18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,

Unfortunately, traditional family values have gone by the wayside, even in the Christian community. Parents are so busy with careers, clubs and activities for themselves and their family, they lay aside their most important role, time spent with God, and training their children the value of serving God with their whole heart. The Bible says to speak of the Lord when the sun comes up until it goes down, teaching your children about the ways of the Lord.

In today’s society, very few traditional family homes are left standing. Families are being pulled apart by the cares of society, while parents are wrapped up in their own selfishness, leaving their children to suffer the consequences. As a result, children will inadvertently search for the love and acceptance they’re lacking from home, through material possessions or unhealthy relationships.

Many parents today consider their children as possessions, to be raised by other people, while they peruse their own desire to succeed according to worldly standards. They are so preoccupied, they have neglected the most valuable thing that a family home should consist of, and that is, “TIME.”
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Joshua Janoski
06/06/08
Good wisdom here. Parents definitely need to make sure that their priorities are straight. Putting God first in their lives and their children's lives is very important.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Lollie Hofer 
06/07/08
Most stories lean toward fiction so it was refreshing to find an essay about family values. Biblical, God-ordained families are indeed harder and harder to find. Interesting insights. Thanks for sharing.
Gregory Kane
06/07/08
An apt commentary. A personal testimony at the end from your own life would have given it that extra punch to drive the message home to the reader
Marilyn Schnepp 
06/11/08
Amen! Amen, and Amen! Very well said, and it is so true. Nice devotion and should be read and digested by every Christian Household. Your Title says it all in a nutshell. Well done!