BONUS: Confession
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 3 February 2025
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Summary
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9)
Confession is not something that we are typically very comfortable with. No one likes to admit when they do something wrong, especially when it’s something hurtful or will cause someone to feel disappointed in them. Confessing is vulnerable, it’s revealing, and sometimes it’s just downright embarrassing. But like it or not, confession is part of following Jesus.
But when we bring our sins to God we can be assured that he will forgive us. He will make our transgressions as far from us as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12). God wants to forgive us!
In his steadfast love and compassion, Jesus forgives our sins and forgets our transgressions when we confess them. When we start to feel ashamed or guilty, we can remind ourselves that Christ died for that sin too. There is nothing we can do or say that will make God love us less or love us more. He just simply loves us!
Accepting forgiveness requires action from us, though. First, we must confess and then turn from our sin. In John 8, Jesus forgives the woman who was committing adultery, but as he forgives her, he tells her to, “go and sin no more,” (verse 11). Second, we must forgive others. God expects his followers to forgive each other just as he forgave them (Ephesians 4:32).
Confessing our sins is our get-to and should be a regular part of our faith! There is freedom that can be found in confessing our sins regularly, so let’s pray that our kids experience that freedom and experience a desire to confess to God.
Father God, you are faithful to forgive our sins. I pray that __________ would understand the gift of confession and forgiveness. May your Holy Spirit stir up in them a heart to know you better, a spirit of conviction, and a desire to make things right with you. May ________ always remember that there is no condemnation for those who believe, but in you there is freedom. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, friends, welcome back to Pardon in the Mess. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm your host, Courtney Defeo. |
| 0:17.9 | And if you're new here, we pray together every week for our kids on Mondays. |
| 0:22.1 | And then on Thursdays, we have episodes and interviews with different people, just as we're all kind of locking arms together, trying to grow in our parenting, and especially our Christian parenting. |
| 0:31.6 | Like, how do we raise kids that know love and follow Jesus? And it can be really daunting. And so we're in this thing together. |
| 0:37.3 | And so this week is week 22. We're in a section of a journal called a Life of Faith about |
| 0:41.9 | specifically praying that our kids follow Jesus and really drilling down. Like, what does it |
| 0:46.6 | look like to follow Jesus? So this week is all about confession, which can feel like a heavy topic, |
| 0:51.4 | and we're going to get to that. But before we get to that, it's February. Okay, I don't know how you feel about February. If you hate Valentine's or |
| 0:57.5 | love it, or you're the person that's like rocking the red and pink sweater with the hearts all |
| 1:02.6 | over it. I don't really get into seasonal gear, but there sure is a lot of it out there right now. I was like, maybe I should get a big sweatshirt. I don't know. But years and years ago, |
| 1:10.9 | I think it was 2014. So my gosh, over 10 years ago, I wrote a book called In This House, |
| 1:15.6 | Be Will Giggle. And my kids were little, but my desire was like, how do I not just lecture my |
| 1:20.6 | kids about things that are biblical, things that are virtues and values, but how can I kind of |
| 1:24.6 | sneak it in and make it an adventure and experience in a way that |
| 1:27.7 | they experience what it looks like to follow Jesus versus feel like they're always being yelled at. |
| 1:32.7 | And so it's super practical. The reason I bring that up, because as I was thinking about this |
| 1:37.1 | month, love, one of the things, and this is kind of an embarrassing tale, but years ago around |
| 1:41.6 | when we were doing this book in December, the topic was generosity. |
| 1:46.2 | And I really had my kids. |
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