A warm welcome to you.
Honorable Vessels Co. is the place online where God's good work of discipleship in our little family overflows to equip and encourage you in the same.
Here, you'll find us striving with his help to build a joyful Christian home and usher our children to God. Our prayer for each of our children is that God, in his sovereign grace, would make them vessels for honorable use in his hands.
What is family discipleship?
Family discipleship is the patterned pursuit of parents and children living before God's face together, attending to God's Word and his world.
A pattern: The beautiful thing about family discipleship is that it capitalizes on the repetition of daily life. Patterns and norms are set in children's hearts when parents lead them to make the same small choices over and over in a Godward direction.
Living Coram Deo: Everything in the Christian life begins with the fear of God, as Coram Deo living means that we are acutely aware of God's holy presence, his rule, and his standard for what is good, beautiful, and true. We believe that parents who teach biblical truths, but do not themselves live before God's face, not only fail to shepherd their children to Christ, but actively achieve the opposite effect.
Attending to God's Word and world: Discipleship to Christ is founded on attending to Christ, the Word. Faith comes by hearing. There is no greater gift we can give our children than a heartfelt and hermeneutically sound confidence in God's Word. With this alone, they will have every resource they need to live, endure, and hope well in this life.
Our Heart
We believe in parents’ God-given duty to usher their children unto wisdom and virtue, who is Christ, by means of a rich life lived together, Coram Deo. We care deeply about recovering family worship and strengthening every family's discipleship at home into Christ the King, as we live in the midst of a crooked generation.
Now, parenting is our station, but Christ is our life.
Our children cannot catch what is not truly ignited in us. So a great emphasis here is for the cultivation of our own devotion to Christ, so they might catch what we have. Let's work on our own holiness, our own marriages, our own spiritual disciplines, our own worship, and trust that the Lord will bring the increase in our children.
What you can expect
Here at HVCo, you’ll find tools and resources I’m creating for use in our own home.
I’ll share in writing the reflections that are keeping us routed to the Celestial City.
You can find me on Instagram sharing real time musings and moments of gratitude in our life as a family.
I hope you’ll consider keeping in touch with me here (monthly newsletter!), as I hope to encourage you by way of regular reminder that the King is coming, and he is coming soon!
"Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use another another for dishonorable use?"
Romans 9:21
"Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work."
1 Timothy 2:20-21