Christian Dads http://www.christiandads.com Christian Dads is a life changing community. Mon, 05 May 2008 20:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Fatherhood Logic http://www.christiandads.com/fatherhood-logic.htm http://www.christiandads.com/fatherhood-logic.htm#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:10:57 +0000 Brenton Balvin http://www.christiandads.com/?p=488 If A:
The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love (Psalm 145 :8)

And B:
Jesus knew the Lord his Father (Luke 3:21-22)

And C:
By the Spirit we are to be like the Son (2 Corinthians 3:18), the image of the Father (Colossians 1:15)

And D:
In Christ the Lord is our Father (Romans 8:15-17)

And E:
As a father I am called to show my children the Father (Ephesians 6:4)

Then F:
I must learn to be gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love

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]]> http://www.christiandads.com/fatherhood-logic.htm/feed The Chief Task of Parenting http://www.christiandads.com/the-chief-task-of-parenting.htm http://www.christiandads.com/the-chief-task-of-parenting.htm#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:47:35 +0000 Brenton Balvin http://www.christiandads.com/?p=489 From an upcoming John Piper book on marriage….

The most fundamental task of a mother and father is to show God to the children. Children know their parents before they know God. This is a huge responsibility and should cause every parent to be desperate for God-like transformation. The children will have years of exposure to what the universe is like before they know there is a universe. They will experience the kind of authority there is in the universe and the kind of justice there is in the universe and the kind of love there is in the universe before they meet the God of authority and justice and love who created and rules of the universe. Children are absorbing from dad his strength and leadership and protection and justice and love; and they are absorbing from mother her care and nurture and warmth and intimacy and justice and love—and, of course, all these overlap.

And all this is happening before the child knows anything about God, but it is profoundly all about God. Will the child be able to recognize God for who he really is in his authority and love and justice because mom and dad have together shown the child what God is like. The chief task of parenting is to know God for who he is in his many attributes, and then to live in such a way with our children that we help them see and know this multi-faceted God. And, of course, that will involve directing them always to the infallible portrait of God in the Bible.

(HT: Desiring God)

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]]> http://www.christiandads.com/the-chief-task-of-parenting.htm/feed Fall From a Low Height Now Or…. http://www.christiandads.com/fall-from-a-low-height-now-or.htm http://www.christiandads.com/fall-from-a-low-height-now-or.htm#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:10:54 +0000 Brenton Balvin http://www.christiandads.com/?p=487 A good friend left some great parenting advice in the comment section of another’s blog. Speaking about discipline he quoted an unknown source who said that our goal as parents should be that our children “fall from a low height rather than a high height.” This means we should not shy away from causing our kids momentary discomfort now if we desire them to be happy, productive, individuals later. The pain and consequences of a person’s wrong choices seem to increase proportionately to the increase in their age. That is why it is so crucial to sinful nip behavior in the butt now. Proverbs 22:6.

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