Category Archives: Parenting
Most people are quite familiar with the concept of God as Father, but if we look at Scripture we might be surprised at what we find about the fatherhood of God. Continue reading
Are there any successful marriages anymore? Is marriage dead? Why isn’t God’s design for marriage working in our culture? Truly following the Lord’s design can lead to functional instead of dysfunctional marriages and families. Continue reading
Our children are growing up in a dangerous world, and as parents we cannot always protect them. Pornography is rampant and children are exposed at earlier and earlier ages. Satan can use an “accidental find” to hook an innocent child into a lifelong addiction. So, how do we respond as a parent? Here are some steps to find constructive solutions to the problem. Continue reading
Is personality hereditary? This is an interesting question; a question that anyone with multiple children has grappled with. How can my children so instinctively respond just like me or my spouse? But on the other hand, how can two children from the same parents be so different? Continue reading
Here are eight ways you as a parent can protect your children from sexual abuse. Continue reading
God’s attention to His children is stronger than that of a mother to her infant child. As a new mother, I can tell you that that might be the highest level of attention imaginable! Continue reading
The goal of this post is to connect these conversations about sex to the main land of parenting by describing two parts of parenting in the early years of a child’s life that lay a healthy foundation for talking about sex. Continue reading
Our theology drives our lives. What we know and understand about God impacts everything—everything we think, say, and do. It especially controls and directs spiritual activities such as preaching and counseling. It’s the latter I wish to consider by asking: “How does the Fatherhood of God impact our counseling, our personal ministry of the Word to others in need?” There are certain counseling problems that are especially helped by specific aspects of God’s Fatherhood. Continue reading
As so many counseling problems are at least partly caused by ignorance, error, or forgetting about God, every counseling problem finds at least part of its answer, and usually a large part, in teaching the counselee about God. Continue reading
Remembering the Fatherhood of God should make counselors more loving, more sympathetic, more dependent, and more God-like. Continue reading
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