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Parents Obey Children?

May 3, 2010 by Andy Naselli

After Kara learned Ephesians 6:1 (“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right”), our twenty-two-month-old started teasing us last night that parents should obey children!

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: humor, parenting

You Don’t See This Happen Every Day

November 16, 2009 by Andy Naselli

The latest Themelios issue includes articles by both Ray Ortlund and his son Dane.

  1. Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. | Pastoral Pensées  Power in Preaching: Delight (2 Corinthians 12:1–10), Part 3 of 3
  2. Dane C. Ortlund | Christocentrism: An Asymmetrical Trinitarianism?

How cool is that? If I were Ray, I’d be filled with gratitude to God! (And he is—he told me this morning.)

  • Ray Ortlund (blog) is pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee. He served as Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois from 1989 to 1998, and he has pastored churches in California, Oregon, and Georgia.
  • Dane Ortlund is a a PhD candidate in New Testament at Wheaton College under Doug Moo.

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: parenting, Themelios

“Rearing children is like holding a wet bar of soap”

September 11, 2009 by Andy Naselli

If you are a parent and regularly drop soap in the shower, this might not be encouraging.

Some fathers exasperate their children by being overly strict and controlling. They need to remember that rearing children is like holding a wet bar of soap—too firm a grasp and it shoots from your hand, too loose a grip and it slides away. A gentle but firm hold keeps you in control.

We cannot begin to estimate the ravages of overstrictness on the evangelical Christian community over the years. I have had occasion in my ministry to bury people who lived virtually all of their seventy years in reaction to the harsh legalism of their upbringing—lost bars no one could manage to pick up. Others were not so tragic. They came to renounce legalism Biblically and theologically, but still wrestled with it emotionally for the rest of their lives.

Why are some fathers overly strict? [1] Many because they are trying to protect their children from an increasingly Philistine culture—and smothering rules seem the best way to accomplish that. [2] Others are simply controlling personalities who use rules, money, friendship, or clout to rule their children’s lives. The Bible, read through their controlling grid, becomes a license to dominate. [3] Still others wrongly understand their faith in terms of Law rather than grace. [4] Some men are overly strict because they are concerned about what others will think. “What will they think if my child goes to this place . . . or wears this clothing . . . or is heard listening to that music?” Not a few preacher’s kids have been catapulted into rebellion because their fathers squeezed their lives to fit their parishioners’ expectations. What a massive sin against one’s children!

–R. Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man (Wheaton: Crossway, 1991), 48–49. (You can read the context of this quotation by searching on “soap” in Amazon’s “Look Inside!” feature.)

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: parenting

Biblical Parenting Conference with Tedd Tripp

March 7, 2009 by Andy Naselli

This week I profited from listening to a series that has been in my MP3 queue for months: a biblical parenting conference with Tedd Tripp from September 19-20, 2008 (see the audio and video below). Particularly memorable is one of Tripp’s illustrations in session 4: tying good apples to a bad apple tree is as profitable as behavior modification that doesn’t deal with heart issues.

Tedd Tripp has authored the following books (and corresponding media):

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Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: parenting, Ted Tripp

C. J. and Carolyn Mahaney on Parenting

February 29, 2008 by Andy Naselli

This week my wife and I listened to a two-part interview that Grant Layman conducted with C. J. and Carolyn Mahaney and their daughters Nicole and Janelle in 2002 (at least that’s the copyright date). My wife had already listened to it and wanted me to hear it. What an edifying, humbling, enjoyable interview. Highly recommended!

  1. Part 1: “Grant Layman opens this message on parenting by inviting his audience into the Mahaney’s living room. This session of testimonies from C.J. and Carolyn Mahaney and two of their daughters offer insight into biblical parenting. Grant interviews the Mahaney family on topics including guarding family times together, training godly sons and daughters, faithful confrontation of sin, proper discipline, and building a collection of family memories.”
  2. Part 2: “Grant Layman continues an insightful and fun-filled interview with C.J. and Carolyn Mahaney. Daughters Nicole and Janelle share what each appreciated most about her upbringing and make a fascinating statement concerning what they wish their parents had done differently. Topics include the challenges faced by parents of teens, and insight on graciously dealing with those challenges according to Scripture. “

Mahaneys

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: C. J. Mahaney, Carolyn Mahaney, Manhood and Womanhood, MP3, parenting

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