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

2. Bread
Stone ?
Fish
Snake
Egg
Scorpion

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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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