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Time for Your Children About the father-role in raising children in the faith

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  • Jetze J. D. Baas

Do fathers have time for their children? This article looks at a father’s first responsibility. It also discusses the importance of fathers in parenting.

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Four Ways You Can Demonstrate the Gospel to Your Children Today

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  • Michael Kelley

There are four ways of demonstrating the gospel to your children in your parenting. They have to do with struggles, promises, discipline, and apologizing.

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Teaching Children about God

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  • Philip Doddridge

What is biblical parenting? This article argues that the core of biblical parenting is in training children in the way of piety, devotion towards God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Four Unexpected Ways to Teach Your Kids about Grace

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  • Silverio Gonzalez

Christian parenting must model God's grace to the children. How do you teach children about grace in your parenting? This article shares four ways.

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The Importance of Family Education

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  • C. Vogelaar

Christian education begins at home. This article explains that it is through parenting that seeds of faith are sown, and God uses this education as means to call children to himself. The article explains both the importance of this education and the manner in which parents should carry out this duty.

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Five Misconceptions about Parenting That Will Hinder Your Children from Coming to Jesus

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  • Starr Meade

What are commonly held misconceptions about what is best for children, and how do they hinder us in practicing piety in our families? This article lists five misconceptions about parenting.

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Six Truths about Parenting That Reorient Everything

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  • Paul David Tripp

Psalm 51 gives six truths that are essential for your parenting. This article shows how the psalm reveals the deepest needs of children.

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Four Ways to Launch Your Child’s Future

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  • Robert Dickie III

Preparing children for the future is part of your parenting. How do you do that? This article explains the importance of knowing your child's friends, design, opportunities, and communication style.

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Parenting: The Joyful Impossibility

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  • Paul David Tripp

Can parenting be joyful? Joyful parenting happens when you are aware of these two things: you cannot change your children, and you need grace.

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Happy Child = Easy Life

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  • Paul David Tripp

Why is parental discipline important? With consideration given to 1 Kings 1:6, this article explains that parents in their exercise of authority are called to reflect the authority of God, and therefore parenting needs to include the disciplining of the child.

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Setting a Parental Agenda

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  • Paul David Tripp

Do you find parenting teenagers a challenge? This article suggests setting a parental agenda.

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Earth-Bound Parenting

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  • Paul David Tripp

Your parenting reveals where your heart is. Which treasure does your parenting reveal, earthly treasure or heavenly treasure?

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Why Parenting Strategies Won't Work

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  • Paul David Tripp

What you need for parenting is not another strategy, but a parenting that is gospel-centred. This article gives fourteen principles for parents to help them parent the gospel way.

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Covenant Children

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  • Anne Camp

The call to raise children within the context of the covenant is a call to live out of trust in God. This article shows how God’s promises in the covenant should shape parenting.

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Parenting as Shepherds

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  • Peter Boyd

Key to parenting is understanding that authority is given to parents not as a right but as a responsibility. This article shows when parental authority is used and abused.

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Driving Them Mad There are so many ways for fathers to get it wrong

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  • John Wilson

The temptation facing fathers in their parenting is that of embittering or exasperating their children; hence the warning in Colossians 3:21 and Ephesians 6:4. This article shows when such exasperating happens.

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Why Christian Parents Should Not Want Good, Happy, Safe Kids

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  • David E. Prince

This article discusses what cruciform, or cross-centered, parenting looks like. It confronts rather than ignores sin in the life of the children. It trains the children toward moral and physical courage.

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Four Priorities for Every Gospel-Centred Parent

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  • Russell D. Moore

This article explains that parenting, particularly fathering, shows something of what it means to know God. It explains, with Matthew 7:7-11, why parents need the gospel, and goes on to provide four priorities for gospel-centred parenting.

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The Traumatic Teens Parental idols can make adolescence much more difficult

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  • Paul David Tripp

Parenting can be shaped by idolatry. This article shows how the idol of comfort, respect, appreciation, and success can shape the way parents respond in their relationship with teens. It shows that this can be conquered by embracing biblical principles for parenting.

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James McInnes (Clachan, Kintyre)

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  • J. M. MacPherson

This biography of James McInnes is shared to demonstrate how God works salvation even in pain for a seven-year-old boy. The article demonstrates the fundamental role of biblical parenting and prayer.

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Four Ways to Avoid Health and Wealth Parenting

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  • Matthew B. Sims

Is your parenting caught in the trap of health and wealth parenting? Good parenting is one that teaches children to be prepared to also face suffering. This article explains four ways to do this.

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Six Ways to Make Christ Central at Home

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  • Alvin Reid

As parents how do you build a Christ-centred home? This article shows how Deuteronomy 6:6-9 can shape parenting in order to make a home Christ-centred.

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Four Simple Ways Fred Elliot Discipled His Children

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  • Sean Nolan

Discipling children is the call of every parent. What can we learn from the lives of those who went before us? This article looks at how Fred Elliot, the father of Jim Elliot, discipled his children. There are four things we can learn from his parenting.

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Diligently Teaching Our Children to Spot Counterfeit Gods

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  • Matthew D. Adams

The idols of choice, sex, and acceptance are counterfeits gods to many young people. How can parents in their parenting help their children spot these counterfeit gods and disciple their children for Christ? This article offers some advice.

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The 4 S’s of Parenting

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  • Casey Cease

Parenting is hard work. Are there ways of parenting that can help your family thrive? This article explains four such ways.

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Making Disciples at Home

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  • Michael Guyer

Parenting is part of discipleship. This article is a call to churches to partner with parents and equip parents to make disciples at home. The article discusses the different ways the church can be involved in this ministry of equipping parents.

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Six Breathtaking Examples of Motherhood from History

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  • Jen Oshman

This article looks at six women in history who serve as an encouragement to Christian mothers in their parenting role.

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Sanctifying Our Children

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  • Ronald Van Overloop

Concern for holiness is what must motivate parents in their parenting. This article shows how this was so in the life of Job as he was concerned about the holiness of his children.

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Current Threats to Raising God’s Covenant Children

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  • Ronald Van Overloop

Substance abuse, television, ungodly music, sports, and internet are threats facing parents in their parenting duty to their covenant children. This article discusses these threates, and how parents can combat them.

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The Uniqueness of Christian Parenting

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  • Jason Helopoulos

Christian parents seek to prepare their children for this life and at the same time life in heaven. This article offers numerous insights into what makes Christian parenting unique in this broken world.

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Maintaining Authority in our Homes

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  • Daniel Kleyn

All authority is ordained by God. This article explains the implications of this for the exercise of authority in the Christian home. It examines the exercising of authority in parenting and the role of children in submitting to authority.

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Being the Hand of God: Godly Parenting in an Ungodly World

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  • Barrett L. Gritters

The painful experience in parenting is seeing children growing up to reject God. How can parents deal with this? This article argues that parents should understand that their role is being God’s hand to their children. It shows how God demonstrated this painful experience in the Bible.

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Parenting Well in a Digital World

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  • Tim Challies

The digital world poses some challenges to parenting. These challenges can be overcome by rejecting ignorance and embracing education, rejecting folly and embracing responsibility, and rejecting fear and embracing familiarity. These are ways that parenting well can be done in a digital world. The article expands on this.

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10 Lessons on Parenting Little Ones

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  • Tim Challies

Parenting little ones can be a challenge at times. This article offers ten lessons which should shape biblical parenting.

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The Two Kinds of Conversation You Need to Have with Your Children

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  • Tim Challies

In their parenting, parents need to have face-to-face conversation and side-by-side conversation with their children. This article explains.

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Fathers (and Mothers), Do Not Provoke Your Children!

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  • Tim Challies

Can you as a parent be the reason why you had that angry response from your children? According to Ephesians 6:4 it is possible that you can provoke your children to anger through your parenting. The article explains in some detail.

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5 Bad Substitutes for Discipline

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  • Tim Challies

Parents have the responsibility of training their children in obedience through discipline. This article discusses five poor substitutes for disciplining children that parents may fall into in their parenting.

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Three Parenting Myths We Are All Tempted to Believe

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  • Tim Challies

Christian parents can be tempted to believe some myths about parenting. This article discusses three such myths, and the truths that destroy them.

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Nurture Your Children

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  • Tim Challies

Parenting children in such a way that children are nurtured for Jesus Christ can be challenging. This article explains the reasons for and ways of parenting.

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Ephesians 6:4 – One for the Dads (and Moms)

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  • Tim Challies

How can parents obey Ephesians 6:4? Parenting that does not provoke children to anger is parenting that values authenticity, involvement, and humility.

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What Every Young Person Needs to Know

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  • William W. Harrell Jr.

What are important things a Christian should know before leaving home? To help parents fulfill their parenting duty, this article discusses ten important things that every young person should know, which will enable them to live their Christian calling.

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Treasuring Others

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  • Alasdair Groves

Have you realized that your brothers and sisters in Christ are one of your heavenly treasures, already for the here and now? This article explains that reality, and how it shapes your daily life, whether that's parenting, small talk, prayer, or confessing sin.

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Covenant and Culture

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  • Gene Edward Veith

The author describes most of the lives of believers as closely associated with covenants in one way or another. He focuses on the community of believers who have to learn to keep the covenantal duty of living with others as brothers and sisters together in a covenant community. Other aspects of the covenant life include marriage and parenting.

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How to Parent: "Give Them Grace"

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  • Foppe Vanderzwaag

This article shows how the gospel should shape parenting, and how parents can practice their parenting as a model of God's grace.

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The Rewarded Parent & Teacher

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  • James W. Beeke

Applying Matthew 25:23 to parenting, this article shows that the work parents go through in raising children God's way, will not go unnoticed. God will reward them.

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The Harvesting Parent & Teacher

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  • James W. Beeke

Applying the wisdom of Ecclesiastes 11:1 to parenting, this article shows how parents should react in their labour of sowing the seed of God's Word in their children, when results are not forthcoming.

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The Covenant – Focused Parent & Teacher

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  • James W. Beeke

The covenant promise should be a source of encouraging for parenting. This article shows how parents can cling to God's covenant promises in rearing the children he entrusted to them.

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The Strengthened Parent and Teacher

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  • James W. Beeke

Looking at the life of Elijah, this article shows how God's grace and power are able to sustain parents when parenting and teachers when teaching seems impossible.

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The Consistent Parent and Teacher

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  • James W. Beeke

In parenting and teaching, consistency is the key. This article shows that inconsistencies between what parents and teachers do will cause a great harm to the children.

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Parenting by God’s Promises Dr. Beeke interviewed on his book:

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  • Joel R. Beeke

How does knowing the gospel apply to being a parent? This article on parenting looks at the importance of the promises of God in our childrearing.

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The Humble Parent and Teacher

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  • James W. Beeke

From John 15 this article shows that parenting and teaching should be done in dependence on Christ.

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Guarding Girls

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  • Doug Van Meter

Fathers are required by God to give biblical leadership to their daughters. This article gives a call to fathers to guard the purity and heart of their daughters, as their parenting duty.

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Proverbs 22:6 – Misplaced Guilt

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  • Richard Eikelboom

This article shows that a misunderstanding of Proverbs 22:6 can result in great guilt to many parents. Good parenting does not save children, so if parents did their work but their children make bad choices, they should not blame themselves.

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Castle Made of Sand

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  • Doug Van Meter

This article shows how consumerism has affected parenting and given rise to the need for day-care centres. This article calls parents to take hold of their responsibility in raising their children.

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Communicate with Teens

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  • Tedd Tripp

In parenting teens, parents should trust in the Lord to provide what is needed. This article guides parents in fulfilling this responsibility. The author discusses pitfalls to avoid, how to set goals for teens, how to help teens with their doubts, and how to impress in them the fear of the Lord.

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Kids, Character, and Catechism

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  • L. Charles Jackson

When we develop the character of our children, we mark their souls morally and ethically. This parenting involves ploughing and planting the Word of God in them. One tool God provides for this is the catechism. The catechism provides children with solid, thorough knowledge in today’s confusing world. It gives a workable framework within which we can live.

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Growing Healthy Children: An Alternative to Provocative Parenting

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  • William Boekestein

Grounded in Colossians 3:21 and Ephesians 6:4, this article talks about how parents can avoid provoking their children by creating a healthy home atmosphere that displays God's grace. The author provides helpful guidelines for effective parenting.

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The Heart of a Little Girl

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  • S. Scott Willet

The heart of a girl is shaped and formed by God to one day be loved by a man. This article is about the role of the father in parenting his daughters. It is the parents' task to teach their daughters what they should seek in a relationship.

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The Way of Weakness in Covenant Nurture

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  • Mark Sumpter

Parenting is a difficult task which requires faithful prayer and wisdom. Parents have many faults and weaknesses, but God has chosen to use the weakness of parents to demonstrate his covenant faithfulness. Weakness finds a place in parenting as we express our dependence on God in prayer.

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Fathers: The Glory of Children

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  • Allen Brummel

Is your father someone you can glory in? God gave parents abilities and opportunities to provide for their children. He also gave them authority over their families, has endowed them with life experience, and has made them His representative. All of these things qualify their parenting call, and makes them deserving of respect.

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Raising our Covenant Daughters

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  • Arie DenHartog

God's covenant call has an impact on how parents should raise their children. This article focuses on parenting daughters as covenant children. Enabling daughters to fulfill their calling and role means teaching them the virtues of being a godly woman.

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Raising the Sons of the Covenant (2)

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  • Arie DenHartog

God created boys and girls to be different with different roles and different struggles. Therefore, parents should be prepared to raise their sons in a different way from their daughters. This article discusses parenting sons to raise them as covenant children in the fear of God.

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Raising the Sons of the Covenant (1)

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  • Arie DenHartog

God created boys and girls to be different with different roles and different struggles. Therefore, parents should be prepared to raise their sons in a different way from their daughters. This article discusses parenting sons to raise them as covenant children in the fear of God.

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In the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord (2)

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  • Arie DenHartog

Ephesians 6:4 lays the foundation to Christian parenting. Exploring this text, the author of this article shows that the foundation to parenting lies in the guidance of the Lord Jesus Christ. He determines the extend of parenting and the obedience of children. This article discusses the respective roles of the father and mother.

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In the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord (1)

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  • Arie DenHartog

Ephesians 6:4 lays the foundation to Christian parenting. Exploring this text, the author of this article shows that the foundation to parenting lies in the guidance of the Lord Jesus Christ. He determines the extend of parenting and the obedience of children. This article discusses the respective roles of the father and mother.

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What Have We Done Wrong?

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  • Bill Clark

Why is it that some children raised in Christian homes rebel against Christ? This article deals with the guilt many parents have over the rebellion of their children. The author maintains that parents should not be discouraged in their parenting, but continue to teach and be examples while praying for the conversion of their children.

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The Power of Example

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  • J. C. Ryle

This article shows that living an exemplary life as parents is a powerful tool in parenting your children.

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It Ain't Over 'Till It's Over

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  • Carl R. Trueman

Looking at Luke 23:41-42, this article shows that the way Desiderius Erasmus treated the text did not do it justice. The dying thief who received forgiveness is not an example of "mere Christianity." The text shows that the thief knew a lot about Christ and His kingdom. The author of this article argues that the thief could have learned this from his childhood; thus, this text can be used to encourage parents in their parenting call.

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Exodus 20:5 – Punishing the Children for the Sins of the Fathers

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  • Willem den Hollander

This article is about the phrase "punishing the children for the sin of the parents," found in Exodus 20:5. The author discusses the effect of parents' sin and parenting upon the lives of their children.

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A Requiem for an Old-fashioned Virtue

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  • John Rogers

Many people today encourage 'self-expression' in parenting, which allows children a lot of freedom. The author of this article maintains that this is not a good parenting practice, and stresses the importance of promoting self-restraint and self-control.

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What Does it Mean, Fathers Do Not Exasperate Your Children?

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  • Hans Vaatstra

This article on Ephesians 6:4 is about fatherhood and practicing the right kind of authority, discipline and love in parenting.

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Being the Hand of God

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  • Barrett L. Gritters
This article is about parenting. Topics that are discussed in this article is the unbelieving child, God as Father and our parenting, and the responsibility of parents. Lord's Day 39 of the Heidelberg Catechism is also mentioned.
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Responsibilities towards Children

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  • Kenneth Koole

This article is about parenting, education and discipline. Christian values and the relationship of parents and children are also discussed.

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1 Samuel 1:27-28 - For this Child I Prayed

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  • John Blankespoor

This article on 1 Samuel 1:27-28 also looks at parenting.

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From Generation to Generation We Will Recount Thy Praise

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  • Jack Moesker

This article is about parenting teenagers. The author looks at faith and unbelief with youth, the importance of communication, openness and truth in our parenting and the importance of a good example.

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Love, Dating, Sex and You

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  • Sarah Vandergugten

This article is about parenting and sexuality, reasons for dating, the priorities in dating, and sexuality and dating.

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"Barb" Wire “The child is father of the man.” (Wordsworth)

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  • Christine Farenhorst

This article is about Barbie dolls, cultivating a Christian identity in girls, and parenting young women to womanhood.

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Disastrous Times for Children

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  • Cornelis van Dam

This article is about parenting, and specifically about children and prosperity, children and the example of parents, and children's dependency on parents.

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Special Children

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  • W. Pouwelse

This article is about parenting children with physical or mental deficiencies (handicapped children) and their place in the kingdom of God and the church.

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Proverbs 22:6 – The Training of the Child

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  • Clarence Bouwman

This article on Proverbs 22:6 is about parenting and the obedience and faith of covenant children.

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Disciplining our Children

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  • Cornelis van Dam

This article is about parenting, and specifically about children and discipline and punishment.

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Ephesians 6:4 - God's Plan for Raising Children

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  • Kyle A. Sorensen

This article on Ephesians 6:4 is about the father's task in parenting.

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Love and Punishment

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  • D. Allan Stares

This article is about discipline in parenting and education.

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Parents, School and Community in the Old Testament

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  • Keith Sikkema

This article is about the parenting task in the Old Testament. It shows that parents had to fulfill their task in the covenant community. This is also how we should view our Christian schools today.

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As the Twig Is Bent

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  • Laurie Vanden Heuvel

This article is about parenting and giving direction to children through teaching, modelling, and discipline.

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The Smacking Debate

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  • Ronald C. Christie

This article is about parenting and physical punishment (smacking), and the laws government has on physical punishment.

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Psalm 78:4-9 - The Relay Race

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  • Eric Kampen

In this article on Psalm 78:4-9, the author discusses parenting and the great deeds of God, and also the example of faith that parents must show their children.

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How do Pilgrims have Fun?

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  • Nelson D. Kloosterman

This article is about the Christian as pilgrim in leisure and in our popular culture. The antithesis of church and world, Christian fun, and thanksgiving is also discussed. The author also looks at confrontation with this culture and parenting.

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The Function of the Promise of the Covenant in the Rearing of Children

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  • Willem B. Slomp

This article is about the human theories of education, and its difference with raising our children as covenant children. The author discusses parenting and the promises from God, unconditional love, rules in parenting, child rearing and unique children.

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Catechism - To Instruct

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  • Lawrence R. Eyres

This article is about parenting and the instruction of children. Deuteronomy 6:7-9 is also discussed.

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Apple in Right Hand while Bringing Up Children

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  • R. de Boer

In this article about Martin Luther's view of education and parenting, the author also looks at discipline and love, the Christian school and the task of education.

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God's Heart for Children

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  • A. J. MacDonald

This article is about the parenting of children, God the Father and his children, spiritual child abuse, and the place of fatherhood in parenting.

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Five Things I Wish I Had Known ... about Being a Father

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  • Robert Andrews

This article is about the place of the father in parenting. The author also looks at the children's image of their parents, sin and weaknesses of the parents, being judgmental and critical in parenting, and the ability to listen in child rearing.

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Little Innocents?

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  • Sinclair B. Ferguson

This article is about the sinfulness of our children. The author discusses total depravity, Adam and original sin, and the parenting of sinful children

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Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him and to follow him John Calvin
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