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Godly Parents, Faithful Children. Godly Parents, Faithful Children. Characteristics of Godly Parents Train their Children Properly Proverbs 22:6 Ephesians 6:4. Godly Parents, Faithful Children. Characteristics of Godly Parents Set the Right Example I Peter 2:21 2 Timothy 1:3-5
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Godly Parents, Faithful Children
Godly Parents,Faithful Children • Characteristics of Godly Parents • Train their Children Properly • Proverbs 22:6 • Ephesians 6:4
Godly Parents,Faithful Children • Characteristics of Godly Parents • Set the Right Example • I Peter 2:21 • 2 Timothy 1:3-5 • Genesis 25:28; 37:3-4; Ezekiel 16:44 (i.e., “Like father, like son.”)
Godly Parents,Faithful Children • Characteristics of Godly Parents • Teach their Children the Bible • 2 Timothy 3:14-15 • Deuteronomy 4:8-10; 6:4-9
Family Life: A Biblical PerspectiveL.A. Stauffer – P. 56 • “This is what parenting is all about. Conscientious parents spend long hours studying the Scriptures to prepare themselves for the task of teaching their children. It is they who must combat the atheistic, humanistic value system that grows out of the evolutionary hypothesis & denies basic biblical morality and ethics.”
Family Life: A Biblical PerspectiveL.A. Stauffer – P. 56 • “Over & over & over, as this text indicates, fathers & mothers must drill, instill & fill their offspring with the scriptural message of righteousness. A steady diet of daily Bible study & prayer must be an integral part of family life. At the supper table, around the coffee table, before the fireplace, in the automobile the Scriptures must be read, analyzed, and applied.”
Family Life: A Biblical PerspectiveL.A. Stauffer – P. 56 • “If children are to remain free from the garbage of secular values, parents must shut off the TV, bow in prayer with them, open the Bible, & take a little time each evening to teach them some spiritual truth. Do it, daddy & mama, when the children are babes & as adolescents they won’t be embarrassed by it & it won’t seem like “church stuff” that is out of place in the home.”
Godly Parents,Faithful Children • Characteristics of Godly Parents • Discipline Children Effectively • Proverbs 13:24; 15:10; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:15, 17 • I Samuel 2:12-17, 22-25; 3:11-14 • Hebrews 12:9-11
Godly Parents,Faithful Children • Characteristics of Godly Parents • Faithfully Bring Children to Worship • Matthew 6:33 • Luke 2:22, 39, 41-42 • Hebrews 10:24-25
Godly Parents,Faithful Children • Characteristics of Godly Parents • Train their Children Properly • Set the Right Example • Teach their Children the Bible • Discipline Children Effectively • Faithfully Bring Children to Worship
Godly Parents, Faithful Children Joshua 24:15