What the Bible Teaches about Christian Parenting
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
We live in trying times, times of moral laxity and confusion, times when God’s laws are scorned and disdained, times in which people make up their own rules as they go along.
Parents rightly want their children to be happy. But what produces happiness? Many parents think it is produced by allowing their children to do whatever they want. All of this makes the bringing up of godly children extremely difficult and challenging. Sometimes it seems impossible. All the different aspects of our society seem to have come together in a gigantic conspiracy to undermine the morality of our children, and Christian parents struggle to know how to respond.
The Bible is a practical book. It deals with real-life people dealing with real-life problems and seeking real-life solutions. Parenting is one of those areas where many real-life people are finding real-life problems. The Bible has real-life solutions!
In this straightforward and easy-to-read book, Roger Ellsworth asserts that Christians must tightly hold and widely proclaim that children are God’s good gifts and that parenting is not a burdensome duty but a wondrous privilege, and in caring for and teaching our children God has not left us to our own devices. He has given us his own Word as our guide and help.
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- Investigates biblical teachings on parenting
- Offers advice and tips for parents
- Reads in a personal, conversational tone
- Children Are Gifts from the Lord
- The Goal Is Godliness
- Two Important Questions
- The Gap and the Bridge
- The Word of God
- Utilizing the Word of God
- The House of God
- Personal Example
- Prayer
- Corrective Discipline
- Parenting like the Father
- What about Proverbs 22:6?
- Some Words for Children
- Godly Parenting in Ungodly Times
This helpful book deals with the problems confronting parents. Modern living exposes children to many temptations and experiences with which parents have not themselves undergone, and consequently feel hard-pressed to solve.
—The Gospel Magazine
- Title: What the Bible Teaches about Christian Parenting
- Author: Roger Ellsworth
- Series: What the Bible Teaches About . . .
- Publisher: Evangelical Press
- Publication Date: 2007
- Pages: 111
Roger Ellsworth is a retired pastor, active in ministry and writing. After coming to the knowledge of Christ at an early age, Roger Ellsworth began preaching at age 11 and pastoring at age 16. He has served as pastor of churches in Illinois, Kansas and Missouri. He currently lives in Jackson, Tennessee. Roger has written numerous books on the Christian faith, and has exercised a preaching ministry for over fifty years. Some of this books are Come Down, Lord!, Standing for God: The Story of Elijah, and Is There an Answer? published by the Trust. He is also a regular contributor to Evangelical Times and GraceTrax magazines. He served for two years as President of the Illinois Baptist State Association and for 10 years as trustee of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, for two of which he was the chairman of the board. He and his wife, Sylvia, have two sons, Tim and Marty, and they have three grandchildren. Roger and Sylvia love the message of the Bible, and they enjoy sharing the wonderful counsel of the Word of God in language that ordinary people can understand and appreciate.