Nancy DeMas Walgamuth has a suggestion for new parents. It's this. Ask God to give you a vision for the time you have with your children.

That will help you to be intentional as your parenting and to realize that the patterns established in their childhood, the seeds sewn in their childhood, will bear fruit in their adulthood.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Incomparable.

For February 20th, 2024, I'm Dana Gresh.

During these weeks leading up to the Passion Week of Christ and the celebration of the resurrection on Easter Sunday, some would call this period Lent, we're taking this season to focus on Christ, to behold him, to consider him, and to look at different aspects of who he is, who he was, why he came to this earth, what he did on this earth. Throughout this

series, we're using Nancy's newest book, A Devotional Called Incomparable, as a track to run on.

Some of you are following along in that book. If you are, we're going to be looking at

chapter four today on the childhood of Christ. The childhood of Christ. Now, apart from one incident

at the age of 12, which we'll look at tomorrow, there is almost nothing recorded in Scripture

about Christ between his birth and the age of about 30 when he began his

public ministry. So in light of that silence, it's not surprising that some people over the years

would have tried to speculate about what took place during those years. For example, as early as

the second century AD, people were writing books

about this, some of them known as the Apocryphal Gospels, one called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas,

is very fanciful, speculative about some of the things that this author thought Jesus might

have been doing during his childhood.

Now, I will tell you there is almost no correlation to fact. These are almost entirely fiction.

They are not the inspired word of God. But let me read to you just some excerpts out of this

infancy gospel of Thomas written about the second century AD. This little little child Jesus, when he was five years old,

was playing at the fort of a brook, and he gathered together the waters that flowed there into pools,

and made them straightway clean, and commanded them by his word alone. And having made soft clay,

he fashioned thereof 12 sparrows, and it was the Sabbath when he did these things. And there

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