Comments on: 8 Ways Parents Provoke

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:41:15 +0000

This message is for Dean.
Yes John MacArthur has an EXCELLENT series on husband/wife relationships. In his series titled “The Fulfilled Family”. (also speaks of how children are to obey their parents etc.)
Also if you go to http://www.biblebb.com and type in “Husbands” in the search you will also get many sermon points by John MacArthur.

By: h

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:17:48 +0000

What an awesome article!

That is a great list, and should be shared all over the place!

Thank you!

By: dean

dean — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:57:19 +0000

I loved the articles from this blog and it has helped me alot in my spiritual growth. Todays article is a specially enlightening one for me because I’m a father of two four-year old daughters (twins actually)and I had them memorized Ephesians 6:1 while to some extent I’ve overlooked Ephesians 6:4. Thank you John for a very wonderful article, I’m been rebuked from my shortcomings.
I’m just wondering if you have something about husband and wife relationship? Had somebody written anything about it? If not, I hope God will move somebody and I would like to thank you aghead of time.

God bless

By: dean

dean — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:53:43 +0000

By: Musings of the Dings » How [Not] to Provoke Our Children to Anger

Musings of the Dings » How [Not] to Provoke Our Children to Anger — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:43:27 +0000

[...] Pulpit Magazine has a good post today on ways that parents can either intentionally or unwittingly violate the admonition given in Ephesians 6:4a: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger…” It was a good reminder to me, and I commend it to our readers who are parents (or plan on becoming parents someday). The post itself was adapted from John MacArthur’s commentary on Ephesians. [...]

By: R J

R J — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:19:31 +0000

i need more!! I am a young, first time mother (of a beautiful 7 mo old little girl) and would love more of this wonderful, scriptural advice! where can i find more?

By: Grace

Grace — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:56:38 +0000

There’s something very important that wasn’t on list, and it’s very, very big in a child’s mind. Promises. Nothing can hurt a child more than a broken promise. In a child’s mind, Mom and Dad can do just about anything, and a broken promise is remembered and mulled over longer than any parent would like to believe.

I can still remember the times that my parents broke their promises to me, and I was just a little kid!

Keeping promises, even if it costs or hurts you, is huge in a child’s mind. Especially if they know that you sacrificed to do so—they will remember that.

Breaking promises is very, very serious.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:37:37 +0000

Wow, this is a great post. I have two-year old and eight-month old daughters and the confession of the Christian father is good advice for at this stage. I also love point #5. All too often I am reluctant to put down that book, that laptop, or phone when I know my kids crave my attention.

Thanks!

By: Puritan Lad

Puritan Lad — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:20:13 +0000

Outstanding and very helpful. I am a father od a 5 year old and a stepfather of two teenagers. Trying to find the balance between “overprotection” and carelessness is the most difficult (especially when one of your kids is a follower).

By: doug searle

doug searle — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:35:40 +0000

Very excellent list, to which I would add…

9. Modelling anger before your kids.

My study led me to the conclusion that this commandment is very generic, something like… Since anger is an emotion that is very likely to result in sin (see ch. 4), don’t do anything that creates a legitimate cause of anger in your kids or would lead them to be angry without a legitimate cause. Help them avoid all unnecessary anger, and help them deal quickly and effectively whenever anger occurs.
I also find it interesting that this text doesn’t limit the discussion of anger to any particular object. It’s not just about making your kids angry at YOU, it’s about making them angry—whoever the object might be. Here, I like what Dr. MacArthur says about patterns. Anger, it seems, is often misdirected, like it’s sitting there in our souls waiting to be unleashed at even a small provocation. This commandment says, don’t raise people with a lot of hostility sitting in their souls.