Giving Kids a Firm Foundation :: Troy Simons [Ep 278]
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🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
So much of parenting can feel like constantly disciplining our kids for their behaviors. This sets up a system of praise for good behavior, but doesn’t address the heart of our kids.
As the Bible says in Isaiah 29:13, “The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.”
As followers of Jesus, I know that we want more for our kids than to just acknowledge God with their lips. My talk today with Troy Simons has some practical advice and encouragement for us on how to have heart-level conversations about the Gospel with our kids.
You'll find that your understanding of who God is and what he's done with the Gospel will be there. And you'll find that coming out in your conversation with your kid. Be humble enough to be transparent about when you've been rebuked. You know, it may be some deep-seated, long struggling issue in your life. That kind of candor and response with our kids and conversation is just gold for them. It wins their hearts and shows them the influence of God’s word.
Learn more about Troy and Ruth’s new easy-to-read family devotion book that includes Scripture, devotional thoughts, and discussion questions for leading your family through 12 Biblical Truths.
Connect with the Troy:
- Instagram: @troydsimons
- Website: ruthandtroy.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | I am your host Heather McFadden and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside |
| 0:16.4 | you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:22.9 | Particularly important in these times. |
| 0:27.2 | Today in episode 278 I have the privilege of chatting with Troy Simons. |
| 0:35.4 | And we can raise up the Pharisees pretty easily you know and what that looks like is when |
| 0:40.0 | they're when they're disobeying when they're kind of off the chain and be it at a young |
| 0:43.7 | age or even an older age you know we work to modify their behavior. |
| 0:48.4 | It might you're migrating up because there wasn't a real deliberate gospel conversation |
| 0:55.0 | in the everyday there was that clear expectation of this is what you will not do is in the |
| 0:59.6 | things that we expect you to do. |
| 1:01.0 | And if you go off the reservation you're going to get this good. |
| 1:04.6 | And there wasn't a hard conversation. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah it was external right and so what that meant was that like me and this truly was me |
| 1:12.8 | I was able to be a pretty good kid you know I hope A the rules I gave all the appearances |
| 1:19.2 | but my heart wasn't in it. |
| 1:21.0 | And that is obviously a very dangerous thing you know it would like God says today you |
| 1:28.0 | know these people honor me with their lips because their hearts are far from me. |
| 1:32.0 | The last thing that we want to do is teach our kids to honor God but their lips and I have their heart. |
| 1:38.0 | Troy and his wife Ruth Joe Simons who's been on the show before have written a new book. |
| 1:45.0 | It's a devotional really for families it's called Foundations and honestly as I was |
| 1:50.8 | thinking about the intro for the show I was really aware of the fact in a time when |
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