Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. Parents, are you struggling with parenting

in a broken world? Are you weary with the endless demands and sleepless nights?

In today's episode, Paul wants to help alleviate son of your burden with seven principles that can

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Now, here's Paul with seven parenting principles that will help transform your family.

It's so important in the press of everyday life, in the busyness of everyday parenting to keep the big picture in view.

And here's the big picture. What in life could be more important than to be one of God's tools for the forming of a human soul?

Let that sit in. That God has placed you on site as a parent

to form the most significant thoughts and desires and choices in the heart and life of a child.

To help a child get to know God's world and what it's all about.

And you can't let anything get in the way of that.

Your possessions can get in the way of that because they can become more important than they actually are

and create tension in the life of you and your children or work success can take you away and

demand so much time and effort and energy or even ministry commitments can get in the way of this

significant valuable thing. If you're a parent maybe you ought to write on a card, nothing is more important in my

life than to be God's tool of the form of human soul.

And tape that to your mirror that you look at every morning so that you keep the big picture

in mind so that every day you parent your children with a sense of the holiness and the importance of the thing to which God

has called you as a parent. God never calls you to your task as a parent without giving you what

is necessary to do it. God never sinned you as a parent without going with you. Here's what's

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