I’ve been interested recently to see how our children are motivated to learn God’s Word, and I thought it was worth thinking about enough to write down. Certainly, not everything motivates our children the same way. I do think that the Holy Spirit works in our children’s lives to draw them to himself and to [...]
Filed under: Discipleship
In the last several months, all three of our children have made professions of faith. I smile at how unexpectedly these events have unfolded. As a result, I’m developing thoughts on salvation and children, but as I’m watching my children, I hesitate to write thoughts which might embarrass or make them uncomfortable later on. As [...]
Filed under: Salvation
I talked earlier about being slow to speak and quick to hear as a part of being slow to anger. And here about encouraging conversation instead of lecturing. I’ve been thinking lately that I need to be slow to speak for another reason: I’m interfering with my children’s ability to solve their problems. Typically, I [...]
Filed under: Getting Along
Far from learning obedience in three easy lessons, my children (as well as I) continue to learn and wrestle with what it means to obey. I’ve been talking with my children lately about the relationship between trust and obedience. These are not long conversations. In fact, they are short, but seem to be coming frequently [...]
Filed under: Obedience
David came to me this morning, troubled. It seems that the girls were playing right outside his door this morning, hoping he would wake up and play with them. He was certain they had come into his room, and was bothered that they denied it. He was sleepy and grouchy. So he cuddled up in [...]
Filed under: Getting Along
Yesterday, I gave each child a third of some glorified silly putty I bought for Lee awhile back. They played with it and I talked. Maybe they liked playing with the silly putty (I told them they could only play with it when we were talking about the Bible), or maybe they just wanted to [...]
Filed under: Family Devotions, Salvation, Using Questions
I’ve been thinking about my desire to be more patient with my children. I’ve been praying about it, but then I started thinking more deeply (forgive me– I think more at certain times of the month!) Is prayer the only thing I can do to be more patient? We talked a little bit about teamwork, [...]
Filed under: Emotions, Getting Along
I’ve always heard baptism given as the “first step of obedience.” I think I know what people mean when they say this. We’ve been discussing salvation as an act of obedience. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “LORD, who has believed our report?” So then faithcomes by hearing, and hearing by [...]
Filed under: Salvation
I’ve been looking for ways that I fall short in honoring and submitting to my husband. It’s not always easy for me to identify, primarily because Lee and I generally agree on most things, and because we’re both pretty easy going in general. However, I realized recently that I’ve not been careful regarding the red [...]
What’s going on biblically when children complain about something not being fair? Lee had a good discussion with one of our children, who was concerned about fairness when a sibling had computer time that neither of the other two siblings received. Lee mentioned later that people overly concerned with “fairness” are often simply envious. That was [...]
Filed under: Getting Along
