Introduction
- Ephesians 6:1-4
- I Timothy 3:4-5
- You can’t expect your wife to do your job for you!
Be there.
- Genesis 26:3
- Exodus 33:14-16
- Joshua 1:5 – God would be with him.
- Psalms 38
- Matthew 28:20
- Luke 13:25-29 – Hell is being away from God’s presence.
- Everything we read about what a family needs requires the father to be there.
- Philippians 3:17 – Follow good examples. How can our kids follow our example if we aren’t there?
- Surveys show that if the father is the first to become a Christian in a family, there is a 93% chance that others in the family will follow. If a child or the mother is the first, the probability is significantly lower.
Discipline them in a way that yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
- Hebrews 12:7-11
- Proverbs 13:24 – Sometimes tough discipline is necessary.
- Proverbs 19:18
- Proverbs 23:13-14; 29:15