A sure fact of life is that our children will disobey us. Another sure fact is that, as parents, we will resort to ungodly means and attitudes in order to try and make them obey.
But the gospel of Christ offers great hope to sinners like us and our kids. The gospel provides us with instruction about how to live, divine motivations to obey, and the grace we need when we fail.
Ephesians 6:1-4 offers parents 5 important truths to teach children that give them divinely inspired motivations so they want to obey you.
We all struggle with pride—parents and kids alike. How do we learn to be humble?
Philippians 2:1-18 contains (at least) a dozen motivations for humility.
If you’re looking for a concise passage that marries central Christian beliefs to important Christian ethics, Philippians 2 is great. This passage not only teaches about humility, it contains one of the most pointed and rich accounts of Jesus’ humility.
