How do you react when your children fail – when they disobey in some way? What is your reaction? This is one way to judge whether you are relying on God’s grace or on your own efforts as a parent. Fitzpatrick and Thompson write this: If you are angry, frustrated, or despairing because you work [...]
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Good parenting in, good children out?
Posted in Books and articles, Family, Personal growth, tagged books, children, Family worship, parenting, Parenting for Joy on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How to raise good kids
Posted in Books and articles, Family, Personal growth, tagged children, parenting, Parenting for Joy, salvation on May 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Do you want good kids or godly kids? Do you parent to raise good kids or godly kids? Those are two distinct questions, because often what we desire and what we do in practice do not mesh and can even be at cross purposes. In chapter two of Give them Grace, Fitzpatrick and Thompson help [...]
From Sinai to Calvary
Posted in Family, Personal growth, tagged children, parenting, Parenting for Joy on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How do you use the Bible to get your children to obey? Often we cite a story like Jonah and use this reasoning, “Jonah ran away from God instead of obeying him. We shouldn’t do that. We should obey God the very first time, because that’s what pleases God and doesn’t bring about punishment.” None [...]
Give them Grace: Parenting and the Gospel
Posted in Books and articles, Family, tagged children, parenting, parenting book, Parenting for Joy on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I have told people in the past, “If you think your life changed when you got married, wait until you have kids!” Those of you who have children know that’s true. Life is different in many ways after you have children, particularly because we then need to figure out ‘what do I do now?’ Today [...]
What a ride! How God provides!
Posted in Family, Personal growth on April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I thought this would be an easier way to share some pictures from our accident on April 4. We (Laurel and I, Betsy and Carl) were on our way south from Redding on Interstate 5 to Red Bluff and Chico for the day. Betsy was driving, and we were in the far left lane of [...]
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 [...]
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