Are Kids a Blessing or a Burden? | Psalm 127.3

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Some say that the best things in life come at the greatest cost. What are kids costing parents? Do they sometimes seem like too much to handle? Join in this discussion with https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Pastor Keith Simon) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/molly-cover/ (Molly Cover) as cover how the Bible wants us to view kids and parenting. Interested in more content like this? Scroll down for more resources and related episodes, including our eBook https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/embracing-the-tension-between-parenting-and-other-callings?hsCtaTracking=916960ff-419a-44d6-90c6-12b4ad9b9a71%7C0b5ca5aa-8905-48c2-934b-ec769684f4c6 (Embracing the Tension Between Parenting and Other Callings), information about our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ministries/children/ (Crossing Kids ministry), and one of our first episodes on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-be-a-better-parent-debunking-3-parenting-myths/ (How to Be a Better Parent) from our first series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-be-a-better-parent-debunking-3-parenting-myths/ (Redefining Love). Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.6	I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. If I told you that
0:15.2	God was going to bless you and give you a gift, how do you think you'd react? My guess is
0:20.9	you'd be pretty pumped. I mean a lot of our prayers as Christians
0:24.3	Center around God being good to us God blessing us our lives and so to hear that God is going to give you a gift you're thinking wow
0:31.7	God is finally answering my prayers. I can't wait to see what
0:35.1	it is. And then what if you found out that the gift that God has given you is, wait for it,
0:41.1	a kid, a child? how do you respond to that well you might think that's not
0:47.1	exactly the kind of gift that I wanted Molly have you ever gotten a gift that was a little weird
0:54.0	or something you hadn't exactly asked for?
0:56.2	Oh yeah, I've got a good one.
0:57.8	When my husband and I were about to get married,
1:00.5	it was also Christmas time.
1:01.8	And he is not a great gift giver nor is he
1:05.6	somebody that thinks a lot about how somebody might receive a gift so he took me
1:10.2	out to dinner a week before our wedding and said, hey I have a gift for you, but it hasn't
1:16.0	come yet. And I got so excited. I thought, wow, he took the time to pick something out. We're so
1:20.7	busy planning a wedding. I can't wait to see what it is and he said I got you a
1:24.6	I got you a slankit. A slankit. Do you have a slankit key? What is a slankit? It's a
1:29.1	blanket with sleeves. So that you can watch a show with your arms in it and you can eat your snacks and
1:36.2	drink your drinks and your arms don't have to get cold.
1:38.8	Did you ever use it?
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