Can You Love Your Kids Too Much?
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
5.0 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
- Have you ever caught yourself more committed to your family than to God?
- How does placing your love for your kids above your relationship with God affect your relationship with God?
- How does having a vibrant relationship and love for God prevent idolatry?
- How does placing your love for your kids above your love for God affect your relationship with your kids?
- Can you love God and still have a huge love for your kids?
- How do we know if our kids have become idols? What would be some warning signs?
- What role can seeking happiness and success for our kids reveal idolatry in our hearts?
- How do we love our kids well without making them the center of our lives?
- What does the story of Isaac and Abraham tell us about God’s heart on this topic?
- What are some practical ways that parents can ensure they are prioritizing their relationship with God while still fulfilling their parental responsibilities?
- What would repentance look like for a parent who recognizes an idolatrous love for their family?
- Idolatry is the worship of anything other than God. It is the placing of something or someone before God in one's life, and it can take many forms, such as material possessions, power, fame, or relationships.
- Exodus 20, Genesis 22, Genesis 30
- “You are What You Love” by Jame K.A. Smith
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast, a podcast of Training the Church. |
| 0:13.3 | If you say, hey, my kid's quiet because I let them play video games all day, |
| 0:16.2 | that may be like you don't want your kid to be a bother to you, |
| 0:18.8 | but it doesn't necessarily mean that you are providing the kind of other centeredness that we want to in a Christian home. |
| 0:27.8 | It is so hard to love anyone, to love God well or anyone well, when fear and anxiety take up that much |
| 0:36.0 | space in our heart, but what we've been given |
| 0:42.1 | to steward how are we doing that and how much of what we've been given is trying to is being poured |
| 0:47.0 | into our children for them to have those two things the success and happiness and is it disproportionate |
| 0:52.9 | to the things that the kingdom of God |
| 0:55.1 | prioritizes. |
| 1:01.9 | Hey, this is Adam Griffin and I'm here with my co-hosts. First, this is Cassie Brian. How are you doing |
| 1:07.3 | today, Cassie? Doing great. I slept in. Oh, that's great. |
| 1:11.6 | You thought I was going to say something because I raised my glass of coffee. Well, no one can see that, so I was going to let it slide, but you did get to sleep in. What does sleeping in look like? What time did you get up? I got up at 7.45. Oh, that is sleeping in. Yeah. That's a mom sleeping. So this week I've been up because I started back at King Gladdy or something back at 5 a end. |
| 1:29.2 | Oh, that's why you're looking so slow. |
| 1:30.9 | Five to six. Yeah. That's a mom sleeping. Most of this week I've been up because I started back at King Gladdy or something back at 5 a |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, that's why you're looking so slow. Five to six. Yeah. That's it. And of course, we're here with my wife, Chelsea Griffin. How are you doing today, Chelsea? I'm doing great. I got up at 705 and I would not consider it sleeping in. How many alarms do you think does it take on average for you to get up? |
| 1:46.4 | Well, today I said like two alarms. and I would not consider it sleeping in. How many alarms do you think does it take on average for you to get up? |
| 1:46.3 | Well, today I said like two alarms and then I don't know if I snoozed them, |
| 1:50.6 | but I didn't get to tell you this morning before I left for that breakfast |
| 1:53.0 | that I was having some wild dreams. |
| 1:55.6 | Oh, anything worth recording? |
| 1:58.0 | It was like a childbirth scenario, but more than one patient in a room. Oh. |
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