See page 47
The Bible says that—
Fathers generate and sustain life.
Fathers are responsible for the lives of their children.
Fathers have authority over their families.
Fatherhood is our responsibility, and we need to take decisive, thoughtful action … what action are you going to take, in order to be a father to your family?
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Week 6: The humble disciplinarian
See page 27.
In your opinion, what is the hardest thing about being a father? Does raising children in the discipline of the Lord tend to make them angry? Why do you think the writer of Proverbs warns against provoking your children to anger?
Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
In your opinion, what is the hardest thing about being a father? Does raising children in the discipline of the Lord tend to make them angry? Why do you think the writer of Proverbs warns against provoking your children to anger?
Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
Monday, February 8, 2010
Week 5 - The selfish man
see page 24
Are men really the selfish sex, as women sometimes claim—self-absorbed and immature? If so, how do you tend to display that?
Now that we are 'in Christ' (study 2) and have received God's calling (study 3), how are we to think and behave in marriage? How does this apply to you if you are single?
Ephesians 5:21-33
… 21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Are men really the selfish sex, as women sometimes claim—self-absorbed and immature? If so, how do you tend to display that?
Now that we are 'in Christ' (study 2) and have received God's calling (study 3), how are we to think and behave in marriage? How does this apply to you if you are single?
Ephesians 5:21-33
… 21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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