Here's the number one thing for a parent to do, according to Bill Elif.

Do everything that is necessary to maintain intimacy with Christ because everything flows from his presence.

You have him, you have everything you need.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of The Quiet

Place Devotional for July 5, 2018.

This week, Bill and Holly Leth have been sharing practical advice for parents, based on their experience raising eight kids, and more importantly, on God's Word.

Bill is the pastor of the Summit Church in North Little Rock, Arkansas, and Holly is a regular guest on Revive Our Hearts.

Here's Nancy to continue her conversation with Bill and Holly.

We've talked a lot about legacy and what you're passing on to your children.

If today were one or both of your funerals and your children were to

stand and give testimony to what their parents stood for, what they remember about their parents,

what would you want them to be able to say? Oh, wow.

There are Kleenexes on the table, and that's a good thing because that's a question that matters.

You know what?

I'm going to do, Billy.

What I would love to hear them say about their dad and what I think they'll be able to say about their dad, is that he was a man who loves God's word, who pursued the Lord even when it was sometimes not popular or easy, but he pursued truth in his relationship with the Lord and in obedience to the Lord and that he was a man of courage as he did that.

And that they're grateful for that example in her home.

I know everybody doesn't have that.

But that they had a dad who pursued truth, who lived it out, not as a perfect man or in a phariseical way,

but that he was a man who pursued God with a passionate heart and encouraged them

to do the same.

I don't know if all that fit on the tombstone.

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