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Who believes that if you spend quality time praying as a family that you will be closer to God and closer as a family?
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 Everyone likes free stuff, so I will be handing out a rookie card of a football player to anyone who signs up for my feed. After you sign up drop me an email if you would like one. When I get your email I will tell you which player I will be sending. You might think that I will be sending cards that are worthless, your wrong. A football card is worth only as much as someone is willing to pay.

There will be many more give aways to come, so stay tuned.

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As summer comes to a close any hopes that the suns warmth will remain on Capital Hill were blown away with the foul winds coming from the Petraeus hearings. The success of the counterinsurgency strategy put into place by General Petraeus, who was put into place by a unanimous vote of Congress, under cut the preconceived mindset of some Members of Congress. What General Petraeus expressed to the American People, through hours of grueling testimony before Congress on Monday and Tuesday had already been demonstrated by President’s visit to Anbar a week earlier.

We should take solace that men like General Petraeus are willing to stand on the wall to protect us from evil. May the country continue to produce men and women of courage like General Petraeus.

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The goal of all parents is to raise a child who is moral in many different aspects of their lives. As our children continue to develop, our responsibility as parents is to guide them into the way of a Christian centered life. Working towards the goal of our child’s moral excellence will bring both parents together to study the Bible for answers to these questions.

Knowing How

Telling a child what to do does not mean they automatically know how to do it. When a parent does not give the child moral guidance then the child will go blindly into that direction. During their young years the way we are as parents will tell our children what they are to expect in their years to come. When my son looks up at me with those loving eyes and sees everything I do; how I love on mom, how I treat my friends, how I treat my neighbors, this will show him how to live a moral life. In addition to showing moral behavior you have to instill moral’s into the child by explaining the “whys” and add it to their moral store house. For example:
“Steven, please do not run in the church foyer”.  Then little Steven stops, but then the following Sunday little Steven runs again. He already was told not to do it, so why is he disobeying?  It was not explained why. The moral reasoning was not inputted into the moral store house. Let’s look at it again. Steven is running in the foyer again. “Steven, we do not run in the foyer because you might run into someone and hurt them or yourself. Look at Mr. Lands, he has a hot cup of coffee and Mrs. Beverly has a baby in her arms. If you run into them you could be burned by hot coffee or make Mrs. Beverly drop her baby. It is not allowed to run in the foyer. Do you understand son?” “Yes sir, Dad.” The following week little Steven does not run because it was understood and added to his moral store house. There was a convention going on and an older gentleman (who walked with a cane) walked in to a packed house. There were no more places to sit but then one younger gentleman got up and gave up his seat. Out of the hundreds of people only one got up. That young mans parents added to his moral store house, that you respect elders. Most people do not instill that anymore. Morals build a healthy, respectable character.

Legalism And Parenting

Heading in this direction is very dangerous for children, especially while they are teens. They try to weigh the form of truth to the substance of truth. They must have room to grow in making individual decisions.  If I tell my son to never go in the street and one day a little baby strolls out in the road and a car comes, will he make the decision to get the baby out of the street, or will he be thinking of dad saying to him to stay out of the road? 

Asking Why

Here is this week’s homework, or at least the end of the week’s homework. When your child asks you why, find the reason he or she is asking the question. Does giving your answere to their question resolve their need for an answere? We will get to get together this weekend and discuss what happens with my son and your children.

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This is the first of many articles I will be writing on the subject of parenting God’s way. Everyone who has children or wants them has the desire to be a good parent. How we raise them to grow in all the healthy ways is up to us as parents. Does God want us to spank our children? Does it say in the bible “Spare the rod spoil the child”? As parent’s, there are question’s  that we ask ourselves when it comes to raising our child in a Christ like environment.

Starting Points   

    The Bible gives us instructions for successfully giving our children a clear picture of a Christian moral life. Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction on the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). Training starts with mom and dad living a Christ like moral life. God made us in his image with the capacity to do good deeds. Sometimes when my son starts to act up in the stores I want to do some good deeds to his tail. The feeling of wanting to automatically scold him is a feeling I fight. God wants me to talk to him in such a way that does not show him an out of control father, but address him in a manner that best suites the situation.

Biblical Teaching

    Everyday should be spent raising our child under the roof of the salvation message. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord (Colossians 3:20). Go tell them this and it stays up there as long as their young minds can hold it. Living for one another for God shows a child the ways of Jesus Christ. We all want our children to obey us, how they obey us is the question. Do they obey us in fear or out of true love and devotion for the Lord?

Plan To Succeed

    Over the next couple of weeks I will be writing an article a day that will be based on studies that my wife and I have taken and are taking to help us be better parents under Gods supervision. We want to plan to succeed, not plan to fail. I do believe that Jesus is the one true living God; he died on the cross, raised three days later to conquer death for all who believe in him. One day we all will be going home (HEAVEN), I want for all of us to insure that we take our children with us.

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