This week's theme: ``Turning the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children"
Questions: Mal 4:6 - How can this be done?
What is the view of many toward children? similiar to that of the disciples in Matt 19:13?
Why don't we have time for children?
Example of Christ.. he said to ``suffer the little children". What did he mean by ``suffer"? Have patience with them?
What lessons can we learn from children?
How are we to be like them? Matt 18:3 humility? (is this how children are today?)
Aren't children to be a blessing & joy? Ps 127:3-5
Are children automatically a blessing? or do parents need to make a contribution? Prov 29:17 - they need correction Prov 13:24 - no correction shows lack of love
We need to train, not just command.. or do we? Prov 22:6
What other scriptures are in Prov about child rearing?
As children grow older we need to give them reasons ..as Christ and God reasons with us. Isaiah 1:18 also Deut 6:7,20
How can parents avoid provoking their children as mentioned in Eph 6:4?
Do parents recognize that their children can be discouraged by them? (Col 3:21) How do parents do this?
Parents need to remember that their children are set apart and can understand God's plan. I Cor 7:14
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