Identity: 5th Principle

This is the 5th of 14 posts on the 14 principles in Paul Tripp's new book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Identity
Principle:  If you are not resting as a parent in your identity in Christ, you will look for identity in your children.

"It  never works to look to a broken, dysfunctional creation for identity."  (77)

"Now there are three things to say about trying to get your identity from your children.  First, it is a very natural thing to do and a very hard thing to fight.  In fact, probably every parent falls into this trap in some way.  Second, parenting is a miserable place to look for identity.  Think about it:  you are parenting lost, rebellious, foolish, blind, self-ruling sinners.  I'm not picking on your children.  I have just described every fallen human being born into God's world.  Third, it is a crushing burden for your children to have to get up every morning and carry the heavy load of your identity and meaning and purpose and all the expectations and demands that flow from it.  No child will carry that load well."  (77)

Read more about the disciple-making mission of every parent in this post "THE most helpful parenting passage in the Bible..."

You can find out more about the book HERE.

You can read other posts on this blog about parenting HERE

Faith in God leads to God honoring actions!

R

The color of the day is red because of the scarlet cord Rahab hung from her house for protection.

You can do a look for red objects game or hide some red objects.

Then when it comes to talking about the importance of red you can use this phrase

"Fear of and faith in God leads to God -honoring living."

This week's story of Rahab connection with the Memory verse Isaiah 46:9 is that Rahab heard the stories of what God had done and knew that he is the one true God.  This faith is why she is in the genealogy of Jesus and in Hebrews 11.

Inability - 4th Principle

This is the 4th of 14 posts on the 14 principles in Paul Tripp's new book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Inability
Principle:  Recognizing what you are unable to do is essential to good parenting.

"Parenting is not about exercising power for change in your children. Parenting is about your humble faithfulness in being willing to participate in God’s work of change for the sake of your children. Parents, here’s what you need to understand: God has given you authority for the work of change, but has not granted you the power to make that change happen."

Read more about Inability, HERE.

Read more about the disciple-making mission of every parent in this post "THE most helpful parenting passage in the Bible..."

You can find out more about the book HERE.

You can read other posts on this blog about parenting HERE

Law - 3rd principle

This is the 3rd of 14 posts on the 14 principles in Paul Tripp's new book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Law
Principle:  Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

"If God's plan really is to make his invisible grace visible by sending parents of grace to give grace to children who desperately need grace, then I am called not just to preach that grace but to live and model it for my children every day."  (56)

Read more about the disciple-making mission of every parent in this post "THE most helpful parenting passage in the Bible..."

You can find out more about the book HERE.

You can read other posts on this blog about parenting HERE

Grace - 2nd principle

This is the 2nd of 14 posts on the 14 principles in Paul Tripp's new book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Grace
Principle:  God never calls you to a task without giving you what you need to do it.  He never sends you without going with you.

"There is nothing more important to consistent, faithful, patient, loving and effective parenting than to understand what God has given you in the grace of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ."  (34)

"Instead of approaching [my children] with self-righteous outrage, I moved toward them as a sinner in need of grace needing to confront a sinner in need of grace." (39)

Read more about the disciple-making mission of every parent in this post "THE most helpful parenting passage in the Bible..."

You can find out more about the book HERE.

You can read other posts on this blog about parenting HERE

Rahab shows her faith in God: Teacher Resources 10.02

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Calling - A Gospel Parenting Principle

Over the next 14 days, we are going to post the 14 principles in Paul Tripp's new book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Calling
Principle:  Nothing is more important in your life than being one of God's tools to form a human soul.

"Your church was not designed to replace you, but to assist and equip you in this essential [disciple making] work.  Your government was never designed to replace you, but to protect you as you do this core work.  The school near you will never replace you; at the very best it will support you as you do the work that only you can do.  You could argue that the chief reason God puts parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.  The most important thing that a child could ever learn about is the existence, character and plan of God.  If you know this fact, it will alter the way you understand and interpret every other fact in your life."

Read more about this calling in yesterday's post "THE most helpful parenting passage in the Bible..."

You can find out more about the book HERE.

You can read other posts on this blog about parenting HERE