Dad Challenge – Mark Hall

Mark Hall encourages dads to be intentional about their parenting and offers them great advice to be the fathers God calls them to be.

How To Raise Children That’ll Make You Proud

Unbelievers raise their children guided by their own ideas and priorities, but Christians will want to raise them according to God’s Word. The Bible tells us that both parents are needed to raise wise children, and assigns the instruction to the father and the guidance to the mother. 

Imagine you want to teach your child how to drive. Your son will need to study the driver’s manual and a person who’ll help him to put into practice what he learned. The father is like the driver’s manual; he teaches his children how to behave and why. In other words, he teaches them the doctrine of God’s Word. 

The mother, on the other hand, is the copilot who teaches her son how to use what he learned in the manual. She is the one who warns him to wait until the light turns on or slow down. She gives direction to what the father has taught their children.  

This doesn’t mean God prohibits the mother from teaching the Bible to her children, but it is primarily the father and not the mother who is responsible before God for their spiritual instruction. A father who does not teach the Bible to his children is living outside of God’s will. 

Raising righteous and wise children is not impossible if we are led by the Spirit of God. Besides, holy instruction will adorn them. We all know how pleasant it is spending time with well-behaved children. People will look at them as if they wear crowns on their heads and necklaces around their necks. Pharaoh had Joseph clothed in fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck, as a sign of honor and dignity. That’s the idea the Bible gives us about our children.

With the right instruction, our children will make us proud and happy, and not only that but they “will win favor and esteem in the sight of God and of people.”

“My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother; for they will be a graceful ornament on your head, and chains about your neck.” (Prov. 1: 8-9)

Islamic Indoctrination in Tennessee

At the end of last year Middle schoolers in Tennessee were forced to recite the shahada and write the five pillars of Islam. Fortunately hundreds of parents protested, and Tennessee introduced a New Bill to stop “Islamic Indoctrination.” Take care of your children. Stay on top of things. Ask them what the did at school every day.

Read the article here: Islamic Indoctrination in Public Schools

 

How To Raise Wise Children

For years I’ve fought the lies that in the name of science and progress are imposed on my children at school. Do not think the danger will be over when they reach college—it’ll only get worse! Not only will they endorse homosexuality, relativism and teach them the world created itself, they’ll also teach them the advantages of lying, stealing and cheating at work to advance themselves, all of these during their “Ethics” class. Ironic, isn’t it?

Determine in your heart to take out the “junk” they get into their heads and hearts every day. Prioritize. There is nothing that should occupy your time more than your children’s spiritual lives (after your own of course, or you will have nothing of value to communicate).

Teach them who God is and why it is necessary to obey Him, who Christ is and why it’s necessary to surrender to Him. Memorize a verse a day and explain it to them on the way to school every morning. If they can read, always carry a Bible with you and let them read it. You’ll be feeding their hearts, minds, and spirits, and helping them act wisely. Teach your children to choose good and reject evil, and to distinguish between the holy and the profane.

 

 

Creation Seminar – The Age of the Earth

How to Transform Your Husband

Don’t let the title deceive you. I do not pretend to know everything about men, but I can share with you a secret I learned from the Word of God that’ll make your life much happier…

If you asked your children “What would you like your dad to do different?”, maybe they’d answer, “We’d like him to spend more time with us.” If you answered the question, maybe you’d say, “I would like him to help me more.”  Would you like to see some changes in your husband (or wife), but you’ve talked to them about it, and nothing has changed? Don’t worry, God has come to your rescue. Consider this: 

A daughter of God does not depend on her husband, but on God— for everything. 

I do not mean you shouldn’t ask things from your husband. What I mean is that you shouldn’t set your hopes on him, but on God. Those changes you would like to see in your spouse, ask them from God first. Ask God to transform his heart and above all, make up your mind to depend on God for your every need. You can ask Him for anything! The more you depend on God, the better. 

Some time ago, because of problems at work, my husband came home every day in a very bad mood, and my children felt stressed because of it. Since Jesus promised us if we ask something from Him together He would answer, I proposed to my children to pray together for his dad. We asked God to make my husband feel relaxed and happy again. Two or three days later, my husband came home happy, and stayed that way all the time we kept on praying for him. It was truly encouraging to prove God always keeps His promises. This is only one example, but sometimes I’ve barely finished praying, and God has already changed my husband’s mind! Don’t fight alone, ask God what you need. There is nothing He cannot change —and by the way, without our help. 

Would you like to see some changes in your husband’s character? Don’t tell him—tell God— and see Him transform that man of yours into “the man of your dreams…”

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known TO GOD.” 

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials – Movie Review

After watching “Maze Runner” of which this one is the sequel, we decided that since the first one was for the most part clean and exciting, we would watch this one too. I cannot tell you enough how much we regret wasting our money and our time that afternoon at the theater.

The Scorch Trials is a movie about some teenagers escaping and running from their captors. The beginning is full of action and the story does make sense at first, but just about the middle it seems like the author didn’t know what else to do, so he or she introduced zombies. Don’t get me wrong I like zombies, but why trying to imitate World War Z, when it doesn’t even fit in the story?

Furthermore, if you happen to be a Christian, there is a particular scene where the main character had to drink some kind of concoction between alcohol and drugs to enter into a place full of drunk/stoned, profane people dancing (you know how it is). Why? Go figure! Again, this scene didn’t make any sense at all.  I bet someone said, “What else we could include in it?” and another said, “Let’s include drugs, alcohol and immorality, that will do!”

I’d like to tell you everything made sense at the end, but we didn’t even bother to finish this movie. My recommendation? Don’t watch it. It’s not worth it.

Pure Evil in All Its Glory – Bradley Mattes (Life Issues Magazine)

http://www.lifeissues.org/category/resources/education-tool-news/the-latest/

if you think you know everything there is to know about abortion and Plan Parenthood, you need to read this article and share it, because there is no other way to stop it…

Let All That You Do Be Done in Love – James MacDonald

http://www.jamesmacdonald.com/radio/

Click on the link to hear part of the conference “Act Like Men.” It is eye-opening and very practical. A true a blessing for anyone who struggles between telling the truth and speaking with love.

3 Things That’ll Make You a Better Father

1. If I could give you just one piece of advice as to how to raise well your children, it would be this, “Never assume your children are saved.” I don’t mean that you should never consider them Christians, but don’t do it until you see clear evidence of salvation in them. Assuming their teachers at church have led them to Christ or wishing with all your might for them to be saved, will not turn them into children of God. On the other hand, assuming they haven’t been saved won’t let you be at peace until you’ve lead them to Christ yourself. You’ll get out of bed early to pray for their salvation; you’ll use every opportunity to teach them a spiritual truth. You’ll advise them with the Bible and guide them constantly to the Cross.
2. Teach your children to choose right from wrong. Read them Bible stories and show them why the characters’ actions were right or wrong. Eventually, let them show you. Invent everyday situations that present dilemmas and ask them what the right thing to do is. Do the same when they grow older, using real situations instead. Over time, your children will consistently choose what is good and reject what is evil. “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
3. The third thing is probably the hardest one: spend time with your children. Abandon the excuse of “quality over quantity”; it rarely works. Play with them, hug them, enjoy their company. Leaving all to your wife is not only irresponsible, but selfish; it shows a lack of love for her and your children, not to mention a poor understanding of God’s will. Do not make the mistake of replacing time with your children for service in the church. That is not acceptable, even if it is the pastor who does it (see 1 Timothy 3: 4-5). God didn’t appoint you “Head of the welcoming committee” or “Head of the cleaning and painting force.” God appointed you head of your wife and children. For the sake of your children, be the leader, do not leave that responsibility to your wife. If you do it, know that you are acting against the will of God. By the way, you won’t be able to fool your children forever. When they grow up, they will realize you’d rather spend time elsewhere, than in their company. Be their guide and their best friend.

Excellent fathers lead their children to Christ, teach them how to be wise and spend time with them. Their reward is the love and admiration of their children and wife, and the satisfaction of having pleased God.

“The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, and he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.”