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Kids Feel what Parents Feel
Posted in Family, tagged Parenting for Joy, Piper on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stepping up in the Valley
Posted in Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, Family on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What does manhood look like in the valley of difficulty, trial, loss, and death? Dennis Rainey, in his book Stepping Up: A Courageous Call to Manhood, discusses seven days of sorrow, as one of his daughters had a child who died seven days later. He highlights some truths he learned in dealing with this difficulty: [...]
Presentable Children and Whitewashed Tombs
Posted in Biblical Studies, contemporary culture, Family on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As a Pastor I have at times felt and heard the expectation from others, why aren’t your children more well-behaved, as if a Pastor’s kids should be perfect, all the time. Now people don’t say it in so many words, but there is that pressure to have good, presentable children, as if the standard is [...]
“Father Knows Best” and a greater love
Posted in contemporary culture, Family, Personal growth on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We have a couple new TV channels on what I call “free TV” (we don’t have cable or anything like that). These new channels (MeTV and AntennaTV) have old but good TV shows, like the 50′s classic Father Knows Best. Today Robert Young taught me, by example, a little bit that can help us men in [...]
Reflections on Parenting Blindspots
Posted in contemporary culture, Family, tagged blindspots, parenting on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do you know where your blindspots are, particularly as a parent? Probably not to the extent that you should, that’s why they are called blindspots! Over the next few days I would like to comment on some blindspots mentioned in portions of an article posted on Josh Harris’s blog, an article written by Reb Bradley [...]
What does Scripture mean by a “rod”?
Posted in Biblical Studies, Family, tagged children, discipline on September 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Dr. William Barrick, Professor of Old Testament at The Master’s Seminary, helps to interpret passages like Proverbs 23:13, which encourages us to discipline our children with a “rod”, in a letter he wrote. to limit it to only a stick or a rod, would be too legalistic… It seems obvious that 2 Samuel 7:14 cannot [...]
The Big Picture of the Bible, for Kids
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, Family on August 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What’s your favorite story? I asked that question of some children yesterday and received a number of different responses. They also told me that they often read their favorite stories over and over again. Many of us do that simply because we enjoy our favorite stories. After having my son read a paragraph from a [...]
Help kids live in this world
Posted in Family, Personal growth, tagged parenting, Parenting for Joy on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I found a recent article in the Atlantic fascinating (even though I found the opening quote unnecessary, and am not supportive of the culture of therapy). Hardship and discipline are good for our kids, and we shouldn’t protect them from these things. “It’s like the way our body’s immune system develops,” he explained. “You have [...]
Parents: Failure is part of the deal for your kids
Posted in Family, Personal growth, tagged parenting, Parenting for Joy on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Collin Hansen has an excellent article on the cult of self-esteem in our culture and helping children to handle failure. He concludes it well when he writes this: This last part strikes me as most difficult for Christian parents. We rightly want to shield our children from the pain of sin, especially the sort we [...]
God employs a parent
Posted in Biblical Studies, Family on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I was preparing for our Sunday School class (Getting to the Heart of Parenting) this past week, I came upon this great quote from John Calvin on Galatians 4:19. “my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!” Paul is of course speaking here [...]
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