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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘parenting’
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 [...]
Stories, Hope, Life, and Children
Posted in Books and articles, contemporary culture, Personal growth, tagged arts-biblical perspective, parenting, Parenting for Joy, Power of Story on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My children are 19, 16, and 12. One is in college, the second considering colleges, and the third looking towards them in the future (he loves the dining hall the best when we visit campuses!). So I think about the future, what they will grow up to be, and what God has for them 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 [...]
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 [...]
Parenting and Christian Freedom
Posted in Biblical Studies, contemporary culture, Family, tagged parenting on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hobbes: Is it a right to remain ignorant? Calvin: I don’t know, but I refuse to find out. This humorous interchange between Calvin and Hobbes highlights the fact that sometimes we decide on issues in the Christian life in which there is not just one right way, but there is freedom. Sojourn Kids, a ministry [...]
Being a Helpless Parent
Posted in Biblical Studies, Books and articles, Family, tagged parenting on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Leslie Leyland Fields sent me her book a few weeks ago, “Parenting is your Highest Calling”, and Eight Other Myths that Trap us in Worry and Guilt. Over the next few weeks I am going to post some thoughts from the book, and from the interview that Dennis Rainey had with her last week on [...]
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