Sermons About Parenting
Parents & Kids
The Christ-Centered Life, part 9: The Bible doesn't say much about parenting, but it's instructions are helpful and apply across the board. This message explores the biblical expectations of parents.
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God Stories: Charlie Jolly
Charlie Jolly shares some of the challenges and blessings of being a parent and grandparent.
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Gather to Me My Saints, My Faithful Ones
Someone has commented that for Catholics a saint is someone who has performed 7 verifiable miracles--but for Presbyterians, a saint is someone who’s brief! Researchers James Patterson and Peter Kim learned that 70% of Americans believed that America has no living heroes. About the same number say that our children have no meaningful role models. Ninety-six% say that they, and nobody else, determine what is and what isn’t moral in their lives; instead, they base their decisions on their own experience—even on their daily whims. Those numbers baffle me, since they must include a lot of folks who call themselves Christians! We Christians need good role models for our children - and for ourselves. It’s time we reclaim the notion of sainthood—drag it out from the bottom of the box up in the attic—dust it off—and make it part of our lives. Saints aren’t folks who’ve been dead hundreds of years, and sainthood didn’t go out with the Protestant Reformation. Sainthood, like faith, is contagious. We catch it from those around us. You demonstrate your faith-in-action as God’s own when you make an offering, when you write a note of sympathy or congratulations, when you call to encourage someone, when you teach Sunday School or serve on a committee, when you make a dish for a bereavement meal. You also become a model of faith when you present a cheerful face to your family or co-workers, when you practice patience with people who irritate you (even if they live in the same house with you), when you observe someone in trouble and offer compassion rather than judgment, when you face adversity with the trust that God will help you through it.
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Parenting is not for Chickens
The story of Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, reveals how a permissive father can create so much havoc that the glory of the Lord leaves his home.
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Passion, Purity & Parenting: Family Worship
Why do half of today's Christian youth abandon the faith when they become adults? Many like to blame the church, but another possibility is that parents didn't do their job in training their children how to worship. Listen as Pastor Tim Kelly dives into one of the most important aspects of parenting.
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A New and Improved Family
Do you ever struggle with raising your children? Parenting is tough work, but thankfully the Bible has much wisdom to help us as we journey to a new and improved family. Sam shares how discipline, love, training, and instruction all play a vital role in raising our children.
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Passion, Purity & Parenting: Disciplining with Love
To spank... or not to spank? The Bible and modern-day psychologists tend to disagree. But what does the Bible REALLY say about child discipline? Listen as Pastor Tim Kelly unpacks this hotly controversial - but pertinent - passage.
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The Next Generation
Samuel's mother, and even Eli, set him on the right course to be a godly leader of Israel.
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Living a Life of Gospel Intentionality
Kaleo SDSU is taking a couple weeks to explore what it means and what it practically looks like to be intentional with the gospel through all of life. We will be investigating the book of Mark for insight into how Jesus brought the gospel to every situation and trained his disciples to do the same. We are called not to separate our life into religious, pagan, hobby, service, parenting, work and gospel intentionality but is instead a life that sees the gospel as the motivation and center of all we do.
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