Have you see that show "18 Kids and Counting" featuring Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their 18 kids with one on the way? It is amazing!! It is amazing they are able to keep that house running. What is equally amazing is the love, peace and harmony that exists amongst the children and how they are obedient to their parents. Whatever you want to say about Jim Bob and Michelle and them having 18 kids with one on the way somewhere along the way they have done a good job parenting. I think they are great and I think the show is good too.
But most of us who are parents don't live in that reality. We're not the Duggars in many ways. We do not have 18 kids we have 1, 2 or 5. And, our households don't run like the Duggars and most of us do not have children who behave like the Duggars. We are left to use the Bible to glean principles for parenting to help us be good parents which is more trustworthy than even the Duggars.
That is the premise of our current message series at New Season that we are having a lot of fun with. We started with the message "The Parents Priority" where we talked about our primary job as parent's is to shift our child's dependence on us to dependence on God. Then last week we talked about "Unchanging Biblical Principles of Parenting." We talked about the need to give our children:
1. Appropriate loving touch
2. Abundant time
3. Encouraging words
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on the planet. Thankfully, God's word gives us guidance.
Check out the text of "The Parent's Priority" here (sorry no audio for this one).
Listen to the "Unchanging Principles of Parenting" here.
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