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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘salvation’
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 »
Observing Salvation in Your Child: What Does it Look Like? (#5)
Posted in Biblical Studies, Family, tagged children, conversion, salvation on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the fifth talk in the series of conversations that I have been blogging on with Jim Elliff on Family Life Today. Let me start with a brief summary of where we have been and the topic for today. Yes, I would say maybe a better way to put it, Dennis, might be this [...]
How Children Come to Faith in Christ #2
Posted in Biblical Studies, Family, tagged children, faith, salvation on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How do our children come to faith in Christ? I am blogging on a series of six interviews with Jim Elliff on the Family Life Today radio broadcast. Ryan Kelly, who has linked to this whole series, writes I cannot recommend these talks enough to any parent wanting to be thoughtful, careful, and prayerful in [...]
How Children Come to Faith in Christ #1
Posted in Biblical Studies, Family, tagged children, faith, salvation on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The salvation of children is an important issue for a number of different reasons. I happened upon, through Justin Taylor’s blog, a series of conversations between Jim Elliff and Dennis Rainey, host of the radio program Family Life Today. Jim is a pastor and speaker, and he appears six times on the show to discuss [...]
