If you are a father you are a teacher. But what do you need to teach your children? We need to teach our children how to pick good friends. This is pretty much where Solomon begins instructing his son in … Continue reading Dads: Day Twenty Three
If you believe the gospel, it should impact your tone of voice in parenting. In Ephesians 4, Paul puts it like this, “Put off…clamor.” And the word clamor basically means yelling. Obviously God doesn’t have a problem with volume. The … Continue reading Lower the Volume!
Many parents within the church, especially conservative churches, know they have a responsibility to call their children to obey. One of their primary goals is to produce obedient children who love the Lord. But, some of those parents do not … Continue reading Raising Courageous Children
We are living in a culture that wants to excuse all sin. Knowing that, it shouldn’t surprise us that our culture goes to especially great lengths to excuse children’s sin. For almost every sinful behavior there is a ready-made excuse. … Continue reading No Excuses…
It is one thing to know what God is going to do in the future, it is another to have that knowledge change your entire way of looking at the world. We have been given hope as Christians but we … Continue reading Simple Family Devotions #23: Hoping in your hope
You need to teach your children to value wisdom. What I mean is you need to teach your children to use their minds and think and you need to teach them to want to work at using their minds to … Continue reading Dads: Day Twenty Two
I have a hope of glory. And if you are a Christian, so do you. Paul actually says that this part of the glorious mystery that is revealed in the gospel, Christ in you, the hope of glory. But what … Continue reading Simple Family Devotions #22: The Hope of Glory
God wants you as a father to get involved in the nitty gritty details of your children’s lives and help them learn how to honor God in each and every area. That’s a privilege! It’s also a little overwhelming. You … Continue reading Dads: Day Twenty One
I have been working on a little devotional for fathers and thought I might share some of it with you from time to time. I know I need it! — “Fathers, do not provoke your children to become angry…” Ephesians … Continue reading Dads: Day Ten and three quarters
I have been working on a little devotional for fathers and thought I might share some of it with you from time to time. I know I need it! — “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger…” Ephesians 6:4 … Continue reading Dads: Day Ten and a half
