We all long to be good parents. We want to see our kids grow up to be godly, responsible

loving people. But the fact is, most of us, with the joy of parenting, have a strong dose of frustration, guilt, and anxiety.

Would you like to learn how to raise kids without regrets and find the real joy in the process?

Well, that's today. Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram.

And in just a minute we'll begin a series House or Home, Parenting Edition.

Where the next several programs Chip will pass along some valuable and

memorable advice for moms and dads to raise godly kids, reduce stress in the home,

and have a well-adjusted family life. Well there's a lot of helpful content to get to so go in your Bible now

to Ephesians chapter six as Chip kicks off his series with his talk is

there a parent in the house. So we're going to talk about God's agenda and God's blueprint

for being the kind of parent that he wants you to be.

And it's going to be challenging, it's going to be wonderful, and what I can tell you is it's not theory.

And I'd like to say that I came from this amazing home where my father and his father and his great-grandfather were all pastors or godly lay people and they knew God and I grew up

with you know someone putting me on their knee and reading me Bible stories.

My parents weren't Christians when I grew up and my dad is an alcoholic.

And so I'd like to say I married a girl that came from this amazing home, but I can't.

Her father was an alcoholic.

So what you have is a pretty dysfunctional group of people coming together that don't have a clue about how to be parents,

which ought to give you a lot of hope right now.

The other thing is, you need to know this up front is when I met my wife

because she went through some tragic situations not of her doing I met her and she had these two little kids that were about two years old.

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