Family Studies
Families should be worshipping God together in their home. Period. Enough said.
Unfortunately, more must be said, because admittedly the majority of Christian families do not worship together in their home and they have been discipled on how to do so. Since Del Rey Church is all about discipleship (because that's what Jesus told us to be all about), we want to make sure we provide you with discipleship resources for worshipping in your home.
Family worship has been around since the writing of the Bible. Ancient Christians worshipped in their homes as families, in addition to joining with the church as a community to worship on Sundays. Worship in the home was so central for Christians, that our ancestors in the faith wrote manuals for family studies. For example, the Scottish Presbyterians wrote the "Directory of Family Worship" in 1647. Since then, Puritans and Christians from each generation forward to our present has written books and articles on the subject. In our generation, we not only have books and articles available, we also have recorded sermons and podcasts as well.
On this webpage, we wanted to provide you with links to some of these resources. This is just a sampling of resources, there are simply too many resources to cover. As a side note. our church would quibble on some finer points of theology in some of these resources, mainly surrounding church polity, the ordinances and eschatology. With that said, we would wholeheartedly affirm the essentials in these materials and the majority of the finer points of theology within them, acknowledging that these are amazing resources that every home would be blessed to have.
Here are some of the books on the subject:
- Family Worship Book
- The Case for Family Worship
- Family Driven Faith
- Family Worship
- The Family at Church
- Family Religion: Principles for Raising a Godly Family
- Disciplines of a Godly Family
- Bringing the Gospel to Covenant Children
- Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent
- One Year of Dinner Table Devotions and Discussion Starters
- The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
- Training Hearts, Teaching Minds
- God's Mighty Acts in Creation & Salvation (Set)
- Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God
Here are some of the articles on the subject:
- Leading Your Family In Worship
- Family Worship
- Praying for your Children
- The Duties of Parents To Their Children
- Ten Commandments of Parenting
- How can parents explain the gospel to their children without toning down the commands of Scripture?
- The Family: Together in God's Presence
Here are some of the audio talks on the subject:
- How should music be included in family devotions?
- How do you do family devotions?
- How did you do family devotions when your kids were real little?
- How does Pastor John handle spiritual training in the home?
- Jesus Is Precious as the Foundation of the Family
- The Family: Together in God's Presence
- The Fulfilled Family
- Are Christian fathers commanded to daily devotions with their children?
- How do you explain the gospel to a child?
- Sovereign Grace & the Salvation of Children
- One Generation Shall Tell Your Works to Another
- Great Truths for Small People: Teaching the Sovereignty of God to Children
- Teaching the Richness of the Entire Gospel, part 1
- Teaching the Richness of the Entire Gospel, part 2
- His Story or Your Story: Who Reigns Supreme in Your Heart?
- Equipping the Family to Do Discipleship
- Sermon Audio's - Family Worship Sermons
- Child Rearing
- Resources for Family Ministry
- Doing Family Ministry: Real-Life Ministry Models for Real-Life Churches
- Family Living Series
- Marriage & Family Living Class
- Wisdom For Today
- The Christian Family
- Family Worship Part 1
- Family Worship Part 2