The Family and Religion (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · May 14, 2026 · 37m

This session frames the family as a fundamentally religious institution—not merely sociological or economic—and uses Psalm 127 to argue that true “security” (personal and national) is futile unless the Lord is the builder; the psalm’s startling point is that children, raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, are God’s appointed “weaponry” for cultural and spiritual conflict, “arrows” by which God’s people contend with enemies at the gate rather than cower behind walls. It rejects romantic myths of pre-Christian family virtue (noting pagan kinship could be violent and treacherous) and…