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How To Become Wise
(Proverbs 10:1)
This little proverb has much to say about how to be wise. First, it suggests that wise people know that they have much to learn. A child lacking all the experience and perspective of their parents, who turns to their parents for guidance, knows they need to learn. (3 Minutes/700 Words)
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4 Strategies To Help You Parent Adult Children
Christina and I are in a season of preparation, readying ourselves for the inevitable departure into adulthood of all our daughters. With our first recently off to college, we have begun more intentionally seeking wisdom from others on how to parent adult children. (4 Minutes/1100 Words)
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Revolution of the Heart, Part 2 Human Efforts for Cleanness Produce Hypocrisy
(Mark 7:6–17)
Human efforts for cleanness produce hypocrisy. Why? Because we can't really change ourselves, because the problem is with the heart. (4 Minutes/900 Words)
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God's Diet
(Leviticus 11:1-2)
Good parents realize their kids don't yet have the maturity required to make healthy nutritional choices. As the adult in the room, they give proper guidance and boundaries until the child becomes able to adopt them as his own. Our Father in heaven knows what we should consume. (2 Minutes/300 Words)
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Your Teenager Can Help You Destroy Hypocrisy
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When a child grows into adolescence, they begin seeing their parents in a new light. During their younger years, mom or dad was right and true, a source of illumination in a dark world. But, as the teenage years kick in, children begin to discover the world on their own.
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Outworkings and Witnesses of the Gospel’s Truthfulness – Three Outworkings
(1 John 5:1–5)
John knew the truthfulness of the gospel message and watched Jesus' life, and heard His teaching. He witnessed Jesus' death and resurrection and had seen the gospel flood the world after Jesus' ascension. And, over time, John had discovered what the gospel does inside a believer. He knew the gospel message is true, but had also come to discover some of its outworkings. (9 Minutes/2400 Words)
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Good Parenting Recognizes the Human Condition
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Proverbs is a highly parental book. Much of it was written by a father to his son. For this reason, much of the book is solid “Dad advice.” In this proverb, the father tells his son not to be “envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,” followed by his reasons for such an exhortation.
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Paul, The Parent Who Served His Children
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Modern parents can learn much about their role by learning how the apostles led the early church. They considered their role a parental one, for they were spiritual fathers caring for a new generation of baby Christians, raising them to full maturity. Paul felt that fatherly role toward the church in Corinth. (3 Minutes/500 Words)
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Does My Parenting Style Include Trust In God?
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Christians believe trust is central to our relationship with God. We experience a constant battle between fear and faith. (3 Minutes/600 Words)
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Understanding Goals for Your Kids
Many parents are completely unprepared when it comes time to raise, not their little children, but raising young adult children. The goal during their adolescent years should be to teach them how to hear and know the voice of the Lord on their own. You want to teach them to make their faith their own, to get into the Word of God on their own and to ask questions on their own and begin to know this is how God speaks.
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