Rooted Parent Top Ten July- August 2022
This list represents ten articles we believe will encourage and equip you as you parent your kids.
This list represents ten articles we believe will encourage and equip you as you parent your kids.
My hope is that my children will one day proclaim adoption into God’s family as far more beautiful than becoming part of ours.
During those critical teen years, it was formative for me to be at home. I learned to define myself in the context of my home, my family, and God’s Word–not the throes of secondary school drama.
Clearly Scripture teaches us that we are to teach the Word of God to our children… but God’s Word does not give us a directive as to how children are to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Although we feel good about all that is being taught at our son’s Christian school, we must take care not to count on his school (or even his Sunday school) as the primary source of his training in the faith.
If we’re more concerned about the form of education our child receives than we are about their relationship with Jesus, we need to pray that the Lord will reorder our priorities.
When my children taste God’s goodness, they will want more of him. His goodness, not my labors or longings, will be the reason they choose to consume more of him.
The grief that we have collectively experienced as a result of recent gun-related tragedies may make returning to school feel not like something to celebrate, but something to fear.
Your child’s life is a part of a grander story that points in some mysterious way to the day when every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.