Never heard of this guy before, but I think he has a great answer to the question: ”What’s the best way to influence your kids?” He really gets to the relationship between parenting and sanctification in our lives. Worth 2 minutes of your time.
(HT: Z)
Archive for the ‘parenting’ Category
Best way to influence your children?
Posted in family, parenting on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Parenting by example
Posted in family, parenting, tagged parenting, ryle on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nathan Bingham writes,
Every new parent quickly becomes aware that they have a constant audience from their child. They are there to watch how you respond to frustrations, whether you grieve over sin, if there is genuine longing to sit under the means of grace each Lord’s Day, etc. The gospel we proclaim to our children [...]
It’s up to us, dads!
Posted in Young men, family, manhood, parenting, tagged parenting, al mohler, voddie baucham, fathering on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Voddie Baucham’s What He Must Be, pp. 181-182
“Ultimately man-making is up to dad. It is your responsibility and no one else’s. You alone can prepare your son to be a man and to take his place as the leader of the family tribe.” As Albert Mohler has aptly noted, “No one else can fulfill [...]
Grooming sons for leadership
Posted in Young men, family, manhood, parenting, tagged parenting, steve farrar on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Steve Farrar’s King Me:
“Whether you realize it or not, there’s nothing more in life that [your son] wants than for you to “king him”…The best leaders think for enough ahead to groom a replacement. That’s what fathering is all about. It’s mentoring and equipping your son to become a man who will assume the [...]
Parental laxity
Posted in family, parenting, tagged parenting on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“We may learn [from Eli] how cruel parental laxity is, and how fatal mischief may be done, by neglect of the plain duty of restraining children. . . .He who tolerates evil which it is his province to suppress, is an accomplice, and the blood of the doer is red on his hands.” –Alexander MacLaren
Asking for your daughter’s hand in marriage?
Posted in family, marriage, parenting, tagged courtship, voddie baucham on October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Would you be happy with this scenario:
Your college-age daughter in her early 20’s meets a young, Christian man who “sweeps” her off her feet and they establish a relationship. Over break, she brings him home so you can meet him for a couple of days and give your approval of him, even though she has [...]
Protecting our daughters for marriage
Posted in family, marriage, parenting, tagged baucham, courtship, marriage on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“We must protect our daughters from male “predators” so they will marry as virgins, thus bringing honor to our name and purity to their husbands; arrange for our daughters’ marriages by finding suitable husbands and making proper arrangements; ensure a measure of security for out daughters by providing for them financially; protect our daughters from [...]
Voddie Baucham: Agree/Disagree, but you should at least hear it
Posted in family, parenting, tagged fathers, marriage, voddie bauchman on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the Crossway blog:
Dr. Gary Chapman says, “I’m not sure that American Christians are going to buy what he (Voddie) is saying, but I think we need to hear it.” Dads, daughters, and sons can listen in to a discussion with Gary Chapman and Voddie Baucham on What He Must Be…if He Wants to Marry [...]
You might be a bad dad. . .
Posted in family, parenting on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are five very practical areas to be on guard against–according to Owen.
Moralistic parenting: how bad will it get?
Posted in parenting, tagged family, moralism, parenting on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Slice of Laodicea starts a post this way:
If you want a concise summary of just how bad things are morally in American families now, the header on a parenting blog post today should help. The headline reads, “Tell Your Teens–No Naked Cell Pics!”
Reading the piece this morning after it came by email, I was struck [...]
