How to Make a Grown Man Cry
Teach your kids to do right
I’ve always taught my children to memorize the Bible. I think it is good for their spirits, good for their souls, and even their bodies, if they heed it.
People seldom made me memorize anything until I was fourteen, but I remember much of it, today. I want my grown children to have lots and lots of the Word hiding in their hearts, and they do. It was worth all the work, just for that benefit.
Several times, though, we realized a different benefit.
I always had my children recite their memory work during our homeschool closing programs. It always was a large Scripture portion, such as The Book of James or The Letters to the Seven Churches. One night, when they recited Hebrews 11, “The Faith Chapter”, one preacher in attendance asked if we could recite it again, at his church, during the normal worship time.
After that presentation, a man remarked to me that it was such a great essay and wondered if I had written it, or where he could get a copy of it. Hmm.
I assured him I am not that great a writer, that it had been a selection from Scripture. He was astonished and said he’d never read anything that good in the Bible before. I gave him the reference. He marveled and promised he would go home and read it again, with the…
