Be encouraged, child of God!
I recently re-read this passage from The Legacy Path, by Brian Haynes, and my heart was greatly encouraged. Just wanted to share the encouragement with you. What a God we serve! What does it mean to have a father in God and to be His child even as we are parents ourselves? Having a father...
Grace in Parenting
I have often struggled with exactly how to find balance as a parent when it comes to administering discipline and bestowing grace. Oftentimes I lean much too heavily on one side or the other. I’m currently reading Sally Clarkson’s book The Ministry of Motherhood, and the study and discussion questions at the end of the...
The Source of Your Worth – part 2
In part 1, I expressed the thought that the source of your worth begins with an understanding of who you are. In the thoughts below, I hope to articulate that it continues with an understanding of what God expects. Self-esteem is a term used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall evaluation or appraisal of her or his...
The Source of Your Worth
It is tempting to seek self-worth among earthly things like popularity, athletic ability, good looks, musicianship, or possessions. For an earthly minded person, their level of self-worth is directly proportional to the amount of attention, love, and/or commendation they receive from people. But, if the source of your worth is in earthly things you will...
Guest Blogger: Chad Smith, Kirby FWB Church
Several weeks ago, my two boys (7 and 5), were just having one of those days. I became frustrated with their bad choices and lack of obedience. As they would call it…they were not being “good listeners.” At one point, I was afraid that maybe they had lost their hearing altogether! Just before we started...
Jesus Modeled D6!
The Holy Spirit opened my eyes to something today. As I was reading this morning, the realization dawned on me that the Deuteronomy 6 way of teaching was perfectly modeled by Jesus Christ himself. I’m sure this is probably not news to most of you, but I personally had never really thought about it that...
C.S. Lewis on Faith: Part 2
My previous post covered Lewis’ take on Faith in the first sense: Belief. His comments concerning the second, higher sense are even more compelling, for I have personally experienced that of which he speaks: No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. … Only those who try...
C.S. Lewis on Faith: Part 1
As I said before, lately I have been devouring Lewis’ Mere Christianity. I just finished the chapters on Faith, and I felt that I must share some thoughts on the subject as I feel they must have some implication for parenting. Lewis talks about Faith in two senses: 1) Belief, and 2) a higher sense. ...
Connecting the Dots
This Easter weekend, I had the wonderful privilege of sharing the Easter story in a way that was meaningful to my son for the first time. He is finally old enough to remember facts from the stories he hears, and as we read picture books that spoke of the last supper, the betrayal, the trial,...
Fists Full of Goldfish
Even when he was 18 months old (he’s now almost 3!) my son had a serious propensity toward guy stuff. He revs his tiny balled up hand like the throttle of my Suzuki Intruder 800 with a look in his eye that says, “one day, that motorcycle will be mine.” I always thought kids were...
Defining Obedience for Our Children
3rd post in the series: Seeing the correlation between obedience and true faith, it is imperative that we train our children to mold their hearts after obedience. As Paul points out in Ephesians 6, the way children obey God is to obey their parents. Since we are responsible for training our children to love and...
Feeding Our Kids the Word
At three years old, Keith doesn’t miss a thing. His little ears pick up on nuances in our adult conversations and you can see the wheels turning as he promptly asks what we mean or why we used a certain expression. As I said in my previous post, Keith listens intently to music and asks...
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