June 19 2022

On Mother’s Day I quoted some short statements from pastor-blogger Tim Challies regarding the family. I share additional comments on this special day honoring dads.    

“Find a couple whose grown children you’d be proud to call your own. Ask that couple if you can spend some time with them to either ask them questions about parenting or to simply observe life in their home. This may prove more valuable than any book on parenting.” 

“Don’t put your hope in a particular method or system of parenting. Put your hope in the gospel, then consistently teach it to your children and consistently model it for your children.”

“It is good and necessary to shelter your children from the world. It is also good and necessary to expose your children to the world while they are still under your care, and you can help them interpret what they are seeing and experiencing. Do that with wisdom. Your task as a parent is to prepare your children to live and thrive in this world, not some other one.”

“Remember that your children are sinners who are beset by the fierce enemies of the world, the flesh, and the devil. Be gentle with them and have pity for them. Don’t be yet another enemy to them.”

“Spend lots of time considering how God relates to his children, then imitate that in your parenting.”

“Sing loud in church. Don’t be content with mumbling as if it’s somehow embarrassing to have a male voice.”