Raising Children to Love God
Children are a gift, but let’s be honest, parenting’s complicated. Am I doing it right? Am I messing them up? How do I even know the difference? Let’s talk about how to raise children in a godly way in this message.
ABOUT THIS MESSAGE
Children are a gift, but let’s be honest, parenting’s complicated. Am I doing it right? Am I messing them up? How do I even know the difference? Let’s talk about it in our new series, Parenting on Purpose.
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Parenting Has Always Been Difficult – 00:00
It’s Difficult to Be a Child Today – 03:19
The Most Recited Prayer – 05:38
When You’re Christ-Centered – 07:55
We Risk Too Little – 09:56
We Rescue Too Quickly – 14:09
We Model Too Weakly – 16:15
What Can We Do Better? – 18:31
The Joy of Knowing God Personally – 20:45
How’d Your Parents Get You to Do That? – 24:28
The Presence and Power of God in His Church – 25:52
If You Often Prioritize Something Over Church – 29:30
You Gradually Transfer Dependence off of You – 32:02
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I need help God!!!
Being a parent is the most difficult job
I’m given my life to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior amen
Parenting is difficult! Lord PLEASE help me!!
I need help Lord
Parenting as a single mother is very very difficult
Amen. thank you for your excellent guidance
Question: you said to remove the people, things, places that can negatively influence your children to not follow God, but what about if there is no way you can do that with blended families or even just having no other option than putting your kids in public school. For blended families you have no control over the other household, and for public schools you have limited control over what your kid can be influenced by. So how do you lead your children to God then? No one ever preaches about this, especially blended families with stepchildren and other households involved, please guide and help us too! Thank you
I don’t understand how extremely devout faithful people are ok with missing church on Sunday if they’re on vacation or any other reason that’s not really valid for missing church. Unless you’re in a place where there’s no church anywhere near a 40 mile radius or extremely I’ll then one should always be able to attend church on Sunday
Amen
I need the help of God in parenting to my only child .
Hey everyone I’m trying to promote my Christian book for kids as much as possible. Adventures With Cali and Odin. It’s about my two kids and simply a good genuine Christian book
Rededicating my life. Been homeschooling for years and praying lately on how to help my children. Amen you helped me. Thank you God.
Amen
God help me
Best thing iv ever done was homeschool my children I get the whole day to sew into my children
Thank you for this message!!!!
Thank you. I needed to hear this. My family and I do attend our church every Sunday without fail but in our home, it’s so much harder for me to be Christ centered and I don’t know why. I’m a single mom and I think it gets really lonely and I feel so down because I don’t have a husband anymore, so I feel detached a lot of the time, but this message really makes me realize that I need to stop that excuse and realize that Christ is my true partner and He is the one that has given me these blessings and I need to do better at raising my sons to know Him well. Thank you.
Just finished reading ‘Raising Warriors: Preparing Your Children For a Godly Life’ and it really opened my eyes to some new ways of guiding my kids in their faith. Highly recommend it if you’re looking to strenghten your family’s spiritual life
Help me be a Christ Centered Parent
Always
I love the message. The pray Jesus in your heart isn’t biblical. If someone can explain that to me that be great
Praise the Lord
Who made the biggest positive impact on your life when you were a kid?
My parents made me be home by dark at 17. But different story they did not want me want me going out.
WHERE is LIFE Church located? I’m ready to move so I can go to this church. Seriously….
I agree that life seems more challenging in general but specifically for kids. We all could definitely benefit from more love, kindness, compassion, respect. And trying our best to lead by an healthy example
Thank you, Jesus
If the truth isn’t in our heart, how can we impress that truth on our children?
who and what you expose your children to will shape who they become and what they believe.
We can be selective in the environments we place them in.
We can expose them to the right people and the spiritual experiences that increase the likelihood
of them growing in their faith in Jesus. So what experiences do we wanna expose our children to?
We wanna expose them to the joy of being transformed by an intimate relationship with God.
Jesus said, "Now this is eternal life that they may know you, the only true God."
They need you when they’re a baby. And you start to say, no,
you don’t need me, but you need God. You expose them to the joy of knowing him personally
and you expose them to the family of God who can support them forever. Because we can’t force our children to love God,
but we can expose them to the people and experiences that increase the likelihood
that they would know and serve him. So God, do a work in our families today.
Another reminder where I failed. Not just God but my children. I didn’t come to Christ till my children were already adults
Thank you Pastor Craig. I fall short so much trying to raise my children to love God.
Thanks very much for sharing ❤
I want to be Christ centered in all I do…I love you Lord ❤
This is so awesome!! praise God.
I give my life to you today and forever. I surrender to you, Jesus
Inspiring! Listening from the UK and shared with friends living in South Africa.
I wish and pray more churches would have boldness to preach messages like this!
100 %
Amazing amazing. Thanks be to God for this video.
Thank you, Pastor Craig Groeschel!
My son just turned a year old and I am absolutely in awe with how curious and confident god birthed him to be. In these days it’s so scary with all the false ideologies the enemy is pushing upon our children.
Parenting is hard, both hands are raised high! Help me Lord
Thank you Lord