Most Sundays, we are unprepared to offer to the Lord the worship he deserves and open our hearts to instruction from his word.

In his newest book, Sunday Matters, Paul Tripp will help you slow down, pay attention, and fall deeper in love with the gospel of Jesus Christ before you walk through the doors of church every single week.

Get your copy today at Paultrip.com slash Sunday.

Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David

Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Today, we'll open our Bibles to Psalm 78,

where Paul helps us parent our children to the glory of God. To hear more of these Bible studies,

visit paultrip.com slash psalms. Here's Paul Tripp with Psalm 78.

What could be more important in all of life than the forming of a human soul to be God's tool for the shaping of the heart of a real actual living, breathing human being?

That's what parenting is.

Yeah. breathing human being. That's what parenting is. Well, Psalm 78 reminds me of what I like about the Psalms. I like just the broad range of

real-life topics. I've said this many times. I think the Psalms are in the Bible to keep us honest

about the difficulties of faith and all the varieties of which our lives are meant to be shaped by faith in God.

Well, you bump through the Psalms and all the sudden you come to Psalm 78, and it's

about parenting.

I mean, who would have thought?

And so it, Psalm 78 puts the question before us,

what is the essence, what is the epicenter

of the job of parenting?

I've said to many parents

and many times the parenting conferences,

what could be more important in all of life than the forming of a human soul

...