Baptism of SL. What do you want for your children? Your grandchildren? Your nieces and nephews? The children in your church? There are three things we should want for our children above all else – that they belong to God, that they would hear God’s call and that they would respond obediently to God’s call.
Baptism of A van der Kolk. Gerald speaks about the importance of teaching our children, the next generation, about all God has done. We do not want to be like the Israelites, where generations quickly forgot how the Lord cared for them. We do this by teaching our children what is in the Bible, but […]
The Bible teaches that in God’s order it is the parents who have primary responsibility for teaching children the truth about God and his will (Deuteronomy 6:4–9; Ephesians 6:4). As we know from reading Deuteronomy 6, a parent is to teach their children about God during their waking hours, as they observe life, as they […]
Paul in verse 4 is speaking to parents! His first word to parents it not to exasperate their children. We understand the words to mean “Do not irritate your children, do not provoke your children to be resentful or angry.” I think, parents as a whole find this very difficult to do! How does one […]
We have a God that is forgiving and gracious to us and we should praise him for these wonderful attributes.