When God gave the Israelites the ten commandments, he declared, “I am the Lord your God.” (Gen. 20:3) Then he instructed that they should have no other gods before him. This includes our husbands and our children.
Tag Archives: Motherhood
Kindness Takes Patience
The phrase “kindness leads to repentance” can almost become formulaic. If I am kind, then my child will repent. If I am kind, then my child will stop misbehaving….Romans 2:4 highlights the power of kindness in bringing people to repentance, while also recognizing that it takes time.
Moms in the Bible–Rebekah, part 2
An ordinary day, an unexpected visitor, a decision to be made. Both Rebekah and Mary experienced those things, hundreds of years apart. Their choices teach all of us how to respond when God calls us.
The Opposite of Anxiety
The Lord has been teaching us this for hundreds and hundreds of years with one caveat, our trust should ultimately be in him.
Taste and See
Our thoughts can run away with us and we can fear what is happening or what is to come. We forget to turn to the Lord or we doubt his goodness and sovereignty and we too act irrationally, or feel as though we have gone crazy.
Moms in the Bible–Hagar, part 2
Have you ever felt that way? Hearing the voice of your child and seeing their anguish, yet feeling so completely unable to help?
Spiritual Blessings and God’s Power
Resurrection power. Life giving power. Life transforming power. That is one of the spiritual blessings that he gives to those who believe.
Learning the Framework, part 4
In this area, the goal is to grow their wisdom with the consequences we give. We want to give consequences that are restorative (of both the situation and of the child) as opposed to punitive (simply meant to punish).
Learning the Framework part 3
Our children were made by the creator of the universe and he has good things planned for them. We get to join God in his work in their lives.
Learning the Framework, part 2
Christian parents want their children to grow up in the assurance that they are loved, by us and by God.
Lyssa Stoyko 