Teaching His Story & the Art of Biblical Learning 

Education with America’s Providential History

The definition of Education from the Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary captures our Biblical Philosophical Heritage at the height of when America, as a culture, reasoned from the Word of God:

So what are the “Objectives of Education”?

1. Enlighten the understanding
2. Correct the temper
3. Form the manners and habits of youth, and
4. Fit them for usefulness in their future stations.

 

Can we teach our children the way that God wants us to according to:

• Deut 4
• Deut 6
• Psalm 22:6
• Ephesians 6:1-4

without the children’s understanding being enlightened? We learn to pray this in Ephesians 1:17-18:

“…that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints…”

Most of us in the older generation have learned to not pray this way, to not bring our Bibles into our learning and so we need to pray for the Lord to enlighten our understanding and then our children’s!

Correcting the temper in our children is not seen as a distraction, parents. But we want our children to learn temperance, and to be temperate in all things (1 Timothy 3:2; 1 Timothy 3:11; Titus 2:2 ). This takes time, attention and the ability to put their training as a priority even over academics. What a glorious reminder of our call to above all: disciple our children!

This comes as we focus on forming manners and habits in our children. We develop them first, as a student is not above his teacher (Luke 6:40), then help the next generation through our patience and example. The most important habits to establish in our children’s education is the 4R method and the Word Study. (Join the next Renewing the Mind course, to learn more.)

I love to use chore charts and stars so that children can see their progress when they are young. This will lead them, as they mature, to keep their own schedules to bring all things into order and discipline. As 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 encourages us:

“…that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.”

What amazes and blesses me is that when we focus on these objectives, as they mature into young adulthood (about ages 10-12) we begin to realize their special unique gifts and talents. What a joy and privilege to partner with them, to mentor and apprentice them into the last objective: fit them for usefulness in their future stations.

This is the goal of our training and discipleship as parents and guardians, to prepare each one of God’s children to come into all that God has for each one of them. As John Locke eloquently said in Of Civil Government:

“But though this be a ſtate of liberty, yet it is not a ſtate of licence: though man in that ſtate have an uncontroulable liberty to diſpoſe of his perſon or poſſeſſions, yet he has not liberty to deſtroy himſelf, or ſo much as any creature in his poſſeſſion, but where ſome nobler uſe than its bare preſervation calls for it. The ſtate of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reaſon, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but conſult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or poſſeſſions: for men being all the workmanſhip of one omnipotent, and infinitely wiſe maker; all the ſervants of one ſovereign maſter, ſent into the world by his order, and about his buſineſs; they are His property, whoſe workmanſhip they are, made to laſt during His, not one another’s pleaſure…”

Father, help us see education the Way that You see this process. Let us focus on what You love. Help us to overcome what You hate. Give us divine strategy to disciple our children. Help us to raise them for You and for Your glory, in Jesus’ Mighty Name, amen.

Verna M. Hall, The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America. Christian Self-Government, Founders Edition, vol. 1 (San Francisco: Foundation for American Christian Education, 2006), 58.

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3-27-2026 A3S2C1 Law & Equity

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity  ~ A3S2C1

Hamilton explained Equity in Federalist 80, “It has… been asked, what need of the word ‘equity’? … There is hardly a subject of litigation between individuals which may not involve those ingredients of fraud, accident, trust, or hardship”.  (1)

This might include a family needing help settling a dispute in a family will.

“The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded. Suppose, by some forced constructions of its authority… the federal legislature should attempt to vary the law of descent in any State, would it not be evident that in making such an attempt it had exceeded its jurisdiction and infringed upon that of the State? Suppose, again, that upon the pretense of an interference with its revenues, it should undertake to abrogate a land tax imposed by the authority of a State; would it not be equally evident that this was an invasion of that concurrent jurisdiction in respect to this species of tax, which its Constitution plainly supposes to exist in the state governments?(2)

“By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains a certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing…” (3)

O Father, our Biblical responsibilities and Constitutional rights and privileges depend on our love and obedience to You. Forgive us for turning our backs on You. Grant us repentance, that we may honor and glorify You once again!

1. Federalist 80
2. Federalist 33
3. Federalist 78