What is the most important responsibility a mother has in shaping and nurturing her growing children? Certainly, kids need shelter, food, love, and stability. We can think of many physical comforts that will help our children to thrive. However, a Christian mother needs to consider her children’s spiritual growth even more than their physical growth.

“A court in London has sentenced seven members of a Muslim child grooming gang… to at least 95 years in prison for raping, torturing and trafficking British girls as young as 11. The high-profile trial was the latest in a rapidly growing list of grooming cases that are forcing politically correct Britons to confront the previously taboo subject of endemic sexual abuse of children by predatory Muslim pedophile gangs” (Jewish Press, July 14, 2013).

Speaking to politicians in his own party, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated that the euro “will no longer work if the French-German leadership is not ready to exercise, not its right, but its duty to lead the euro” (Libération, July 8, 2013). He warned, “If the euro explodes, Europe will explode, and if Europe explodes, then you cannot maintain peace” (ibid.).