The Tulip Driven Life

GREENVILLE PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BOOK REVIEW: FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Thomas Booher AT 41 Christian Education November 7, 2015             Although Foundations of Christian Education is a collection of addresses delivered in the 1920’s and 1930’s by Louis Berkhof and Cornelius Van Til, they translate well onto the written page, and the essays remain valuable today because they demonstrate the need for and basis of Christian schools and Christian education from a Reformed worldview. Today, just as when these addresses were given, Christians often take lightly the calling to educate their own. This short book describes what Christian education should look like by giving a theological basis for it and by giving practical guidance on how to implement it. The first “section” of the book discusses the necessity and distinctiveness of Christian education from the R...

I remember having sword drills in elementary school. This is where you are given chapter and verse of a book in the Bible, and then on cue, you search for it. Whoever finds it first gets a point. It was fun, and it might have helped me flip to particular passages more quickly, but it didn't really teach me what the verses actually said. Sometimes we may have read the verses we looked up, I do not remember, but even if we did, the point wasn't really to elaborate on the verse and what it meant, the point was simply to find it. Then I remember going to AWANA'S, or whatever it was called, like twice as a kid. You got points which I think could be redeemed for prizes for quoting verses that you memorized. Of course, we did that in school too. So I still remember the little jingle for, say, Ephesians 4:32. "And be ye kind, one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you you you, Ephesians 4 and 32." I thi...