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Book Review: Gospel Powered Parenting.

8 Comments / September 8, 2017

Have you ever read a book and it’s like the author is reading your mind? Well, I am 40 pages into Gospel Powered Parenting and so far I keep calling my wife over and telling her to read whole sections. It has to be one of the best parenting books I have ever read. “I am […]

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5 shifts parents need to make in LGBTQ America

1 Comment / July 2, 2015

The ruling that came down this week was not unexpected. It was a slow build that started in the 1960’s with the sexual revolution. What the ruling did was place the final nail in the coffin of Orthodox Christianity as the majority viewpoint in our country. As a country we have been drifting for years

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The 10 best books I read this year.

4 Comments / December 18, 2012

I set a goal for myself this year to read 52 books I ended up reading 42, even though I didn’t reach my goal I read more books than I typically did because I had an agressive goal. Here were the 10 best books I read all year. The Meaning of Marriage This was by

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The influence of parents’ church attendance on their children.

4 Comments / March 13, 2012

I recently read a parenting book that was literally one of the best parenting books I have ever read it’s called Gospel Powered Parenting. (Here is a review my friend Dustin Nickerson did of it.) I loved it because it focused on the Gospel and Jesus not simply behavior modification. I also loved how it called men to be

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4 responses to “The influence of parents’ church attendance on their children.”

Amanda B.

March 13, 2012

I find it very interesting that the children's attendance is higher when the father's is regular & the mother's is irregular than when both parents are regular. However, the stats do prove why God set the father as the spritual head of the family. We need more men to step up & lead in the home & the church. And we need more women who will express that need to men instead of just stepping in to get the job done. Women need to support men in doing the job they were designed by God to do. Even in the secular world, it is very difficult to find a strong role model for fathers.
Think about TV fathers…has there been a good, strong father figure on TV since Bill Cosby? Now Cosby was goofy & made mistakes, but when things were serious, he knew how to be a good dad. Most dads on TV today are bumbling idiots who have no clue how to be a parent. Even worse, many shows that focus on families today don't even have an active father role in the storyline.
So thankful that I married a man who is willing to be the father that he is called to be.

samluce

March 13, 2012

Amanda it's a huge problem. Unfortunately not one that we discuss often and when we do discuss it is more in the context of a lost cause rather than based biblically with practical solutions. I am grateful your husband is being the father he should be encourage him to never lose sight of that. He is replaceable everywhere in life the only place he isn't replaceable is as a husband and father.

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Heather Ramsdell

March 13, 2012

I highly agree and spoke about these stats after I read this book. It really sparked one Uncle to take charge with his single neice and her daughter. Now they have dinner together on tuesday nights and he does a devotion with her. Need more of this happening!

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August 14, 2012

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Amanda B.

March 13, 2012

I find it very interesting that the children's attendance is higher when the father's is regular & the mother's is irregular than when both parents are regular. However, the stats do prove why God set the father as the spritual head of the family. We need more men to step up & lead in the home & the church. And we need more women who will express that need to men instead of just stepping in to get the job done. Women need to support men in doing the job they were designed by God to do. Even in the secular world, it is very difficult to find a strong role model for fathers.
Think about TV fathers…has there been a good, strong father figure on TV since Bill Cosby? Now Cosby was goofy & made mistakes, but when things were serious, he knew how to be a good dad. Most dads on TV today are bumbling idiots who have no clue how to be a parent. Even worse, many shows that focus on families today don't even have an active father role in the storyline.
So thankful that I married a man who is willing to be the father that he is called to be.

1. samluce
  
  March 13, 2012
  
  Amanda it's a huge problem. Unfortunately not one that we discuss often and when we do discuss it is more in the context of a lost cause rather than based biblically with practical solutions. I am grateful your husband is being the father he should be encourage him to never lose sight of that. He is replaceable everywhere in life the only place he isn't replaceable is as a husband and father.
  
Heather Ramsdell

March 13, 2012

I highly agree and spoke about these stats after I read this book. It really sparked one Uncle to take charge with his single neice and her daughter. Now they have dinner together on tuesday nights and he does a devotion with her. Need more of this happening!

The influence of parents church attendance on their children

August 14, 2012

[…] great stuff here and some good links via The influence of church attendance on their children. – samluce.com. Share this:EmailFacebookPrintRelated […]