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Our most important job – Conclusion

Hopefully, over the past 3 weeks, you’ve gained some insight into our job as parents. Again, I take no credit for this material, as it all came from Dr. Greg Johnson here at FBC Sanger. You can find links to

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Our most important job – Proper Correction

Well, here we go. Let the debate begin. Do we spank? Timeout? Grounding? The Bible is clear that we are expected to correct and train our kids in the right way. And we are to do so in a loving

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Bearing God’s Image: I’m the king of the world

That quote is from one of the most awarded and celebrated movies of all time.  While to be honest, I didn’t enjoy it that much, it did save 2 marriages.  That’s a story for another day, and involved a violent

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Our most important job – Guidance

Guidance, teaching, modeling, setting an example – these are all appropriate titles for this this post.  However, I think guidance fits best because it encompasses each of the other 3 listed.  We cannot just teach our children with words.  Our

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Our most important job – Accepting

I have to admit, when this point came up, I wasn’t sure what to think about it on the surface.  Accepting our children?  Where was this going?  It turns out, as it always does, that there is a definite message

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Bearing God’s Image: Gardening and Hammocks

When you picture the garden of Eden, what do you see?  Paradise is a good word to describe my mental image.  So, paradise…isn’t that sitting on a beach the the Caribbean watching the tide roll in? In the words of

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Our most important job – Teaching

In the Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown and his friends always heard the voice of adults as a “blah blah blah.”  As a child, I really didn’t understand the humor in this, but by the time I reached my teenage years,

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Our most important job – Introduction

The pastor of our church, Dr. Greg Johnson, is currently in a series called “Take this job and LOVE it.”  It was an excellent, and eye-opening sermon series on how we should approach the careers that God has blessed us

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Bearing God’s Image: Relationship Status

If you’ve seen the movie “The Social Network” you know that Facebook turned a major corner in its success by adding relationship status to profiles. At our core as humans, we long for relationships of various types. Those include family,

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Bearing God’s Image: Look in the Mirror

Yesterday something really cool happened.  God showed just how big He really is.  Brandi and I have felt “called” to start a class for parents of youth at our church here in Sanger.  We officially launched the class yesterday with

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