The Need For Godly Parenting Stones and Serpents The Need For Godly Parenting

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The Need For Godly Parenting Stones and Serpents The Need For Godly Parenting

Eph. 6:4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. Tit. 2:3-4 The older women likewise, … 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

We Give Our Children Stones and Serpents When They … Ask for our time and affection and we give them material things 2 Tim. 1:3-5; Prov. 4:1-17 Ask for our guidance and discipline and we look the other way Prov. 29:15; 1 Sam. 3:11-13

We Give Our Children Stones and Serpents When They … Ask for our stand on morality and we give them access to immoral entertainment Eph. 5:3-5 Ask for a spiritual focus and we encourage only worldly success 1 Jn. 2:15-17

We Give Our Children Stones and Serpents When They … Ask for order and stability and we give them chaos and unpredictability Eph. 5:22-29

Ps. 127:3 “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward.”