Train Up Your Children in the Way they Should Go :: Quietly Through Thursday (Plus LinkUp)

Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 This almost sounds like an awesome promise, doesn’t it? A promise that says, “Lead your kids to salvation and they will stick with Christ forever.” Yes, that would be an awesome promise. But that’s not what this verse is saying. Each person is responsible for working out his or her salvation with the Lord (Philippians 2:12). This includes our children. Mommas, we can not “make” our babies be saved. No matter how […]

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The Primary Teacher

I use to believe that my children needed to go to Children’s Church to receive the bulk of their christian education; that the Sunday school teacher had the primary role in this education and I was to reenforce that teacher. I had it backwards.  Proverbs 22:6 tells us “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (NKJV).  In Deuteronomy 6:7 we are told, “You shall teach (the greatest commandment) diligently to your children, and shall talk of (it) when you sit in […]

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