Sunday, June 22

Godly Fathers, Godly Sons: Six Lessons A Father Is To Teach His Son

1. Teach your son to fear God. Prov. 1:7-8
I have to teach my son about God.
2. Teach your son to guard his mind. Prov. 3:1-2
Monitor my son's media intake.
3. Teach your son to wisely select his friends. Prov. 1:10
Invite your children's friend to your home so you know who they are.
4. Teach your son to be sexually pure. Prov. 5
"All future romantic relationship in a girl's life will be influenced positively or negatively by the way she interacts with her dad." Teach your son by the way you treat your wife.
5. Teach your son to value work. Prov. 6:6-11
Assign chores and make it fun. Take your child to your workplace.
6. Teach your son to manage His money. Prov. 3:9-10
"God owns it all. We are managers of what we have." Teach your son to tithe. Teach him to live on a budget.
"THE BEST THING WE CAN SPEND ON OUR CHILDREN IS TIME."
Could it be that husbands and wives are so overworked chasing the American Dream that they have no time for each other and many hardly know their children?
"Have you recently dated your child?"
"Do you know your child's goals, hopes, dreams, and fears?" Hurts? Struggles?
"These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." Deut. 6:6-9