6-18-20 This Week in Faith
/Happy Father’s Day!
Thanks for all you are doing to invest in your kids and point them to Jesus. I know it can be hard and tiring. But know that it is worth it and God is using what you are doing. Your time with and for your kids is never wasted. But also know that God loves your kids even more than you do and is a more faithful Father than you are, so you can rest in his promises for your kids, even when you feel like you haven’t been up to the task. Here are a couple of articles to encourage you dads.
Finding the Father’s Face: A Parenting Pilgrimage
Finding the Father: Practical Steps Along the Pilgrimage
How the Bible Calls Dads to Father their Daughters
How to Pray for Your Kids this Summer
Summer time can sometimes feel like it’s hard to get expectations for our kids above waking up before noon and not watching too much TV. Especially this year when we have been at home for a much longer period of time. But this article offers some good things to pray for- both generally and specifically- for our kids. God can use the different routines of summer to shape our kids, and grow parents as well. And while I can get into a rut of praying the same things for my kids over and over again, there are some important things in this list to pray for that I want to try and come back to.
Click here to read the article Sam Crabtree.
How to Turn Repentance into a Non-Apology Apology
Talking about repentance and how to apologize with our kids is important. It’s even helpful to point out some of the terrible apologies we see on TV and social media to help our kids understand what not to do. This article looks at repentance from Psalm 51. Our middle and high school students are supposed to be reading through Psalm 51 for next week’s small groups and memorizing Psalm 51:1. So it could be a great opportunity to consider some of what he has to say in this article and have a dinner table discussion on how to repent towards God and how to seek forgiveness from each other.
Click here to read the article by Sam Alberry.
VIDEO: High School and Middle School Parenting Forum
This is an hour long forum with the student pastors from the Village Church in Dallas, Texas. Jen Wilkin who is a great author and speaker and who has 3 boys that are grown and out of the house now, joins for part of it to give some of her thoughts on parenting teens as well. It gets off to a little bit of a slow start but they cover a wide range of parenting topics that are helpful if you have the time.
