Westminster Presbyterian Church Belconnen Sermons
Web Site: Westminster Presbyterian Church Belconnen
Total Sermons: 157
Total Amens: 2
Accommodating our children
Some fathers think that if they provide their children with food on the table, a shirt on their backs, and a roof over their heads, then they have done their duty. I am suggesting a very different meaning of the words "accommodating our children". I mean we are to know our children, to know their limitations, to know the differences between them, to know their strengths and particular weaknesses. We are to enter their world...
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Jacob the prodigal son
There is a striking similarity between the account of Jacob meeting Esau (as described here in Genesis 33) and our Lord's parable of the prodigal son. In many ways Jacob is like the prodigal son returning home repentant, and yet there are some significant differences as well. Esau is something like the forgiving father in Jesus' parable, and so is a picture of the forgiveness of God Himself. Yet Esau is described in the Bible as godless. We have much to learn here about reconciliation with our brothers.
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What's in a name?
Jim Hogg was a lawyer in Texas in the late 19th century. His older brother, Tom, wrote a poem about the civil war in which the heroine was Imogene, or Ima for short. Jim was so taken by the story that when his first daughter was born he named her after the heroine - Ima. When Jim's father-in-law heard what they were calling his grand-daughter he made an emergency visit. However he arrived too late, the "christening" had already taken place. She was named "Ima Hogg." So, what's in a name? There can be quite a lot. So it was for Jacob ...
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Affection for our children
Neurologists tell us that when parents show affection to their babies and young children a flood of hormones is released in their brains. These develop pathways and networks in the child's brain, which help them to show affection to others. This is a good reason to show affection to our children, but there is an even better reason. We have the privilege of emulating to our children the affection that God shows to us as His children ...
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Accountability with our children
Perhaps you have found that children often have a keen sense of justice. If Mum has cooked chips for dinner, children can be very discerning about how many chips are on someone else’s plate as compared to their own. What we parents need to realise is that it is God who has given them this keen sense of justice, and He has given it to them for a reason. It may not be the reason for which they use it, but a keen sense of justice is intrinsically good as a gift of God.
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