If you're running kids all the way around at young ages to just like the schedule is just

bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, they're just get overwhelmed.

And then you also have no space and time to kind of nurture this.

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What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. Are you using Jesus' name in vain?

Now, we'll hear about in the Old Testament using God's name in vain, but how do families use Jesus' name in vain?

There's a little pet peeve of mine, but it sounds like this. You know, your four-year-old smacks your three-year-old across the face, and you're like,

honey, you just really hurt Jesus

right there. Like that hurts Jesus. Jesus is really upset. Jesus is actually crying right now.

Like that, when you use Jesus is like that, and every time you use something negative happens

or we need to correct or call your child to repentance, your four-year-old pagan who really doesn't believe

the gospel, you use Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Then oftentimes what happens is that a negative

association or religious association is made between their actions in Jesus. Okay, this is very

understandable why this is done, and this is why I want to talk for a minute about it.

There's a principle in the Bible that's really important, and it's from Isaiah 6, and then Jesus talks about it in Matthew 13, and that is you do not preach the truth to a hard heart.

Preaching truth to a hard heart makes that heart actually harder, not softer.

And so when you speak the truth is incredibly important if you want to win your kids' hearts. And if you speak truth to them, your deepest,

most precious pearls in the moments when your kids are most upset, most frustrated and most

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