Redirecting Our Families (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Following Jesus impacts every aspect of life, including the way you guide your family and prepare your children for life beyond the “nest.” Learn why children need you to be their parent rather than their pal. That’s on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The You're going to do you. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you do you do you do you do |
| 0:15.0 | do you do Following Jesus impacts every aspect of our lives, including the way we lead our families and prepare our children for life beyond the nest. |
| 0:36.1 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn why our children need us to be their parents rather than |
| 0:41.1 | their pals. |
| 0:43.0 | Alistairbegg is teaching from Nehemiah, chapters 9 and 10. Now if then parents are going to take seriously the issues of anchoring their faith |
| 0:58.6 | within the framework of the home, then it will be expressed at least in these three ways. First of all, in the |
| 1:07.8 | gathering of our families, then in the guiding of our families, and then in the guiding of our families and then in the giving of our families. |
| 1:17.0 | We said last time that to obey God's word from the heart will realign our focus. |
| 1:22.0 | Secondly, to obey God's word from the heart, we're saying it will redirect our families. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, how? Well, first of all, it will determine where we gather, why we gather, and how we gather as families. |
| 1:40.0 | Secondly, we will guide our families. |
| 1:43.0 | If we're going to take seriously the word of God in our hearts, |
| 1:47.0 | we will establish the guidance of our families. |
| 1:51.0 | Not simply on the basis of our own little personal preferences or our own |
| 1:58.0 | little family values because there are plenty again of plenty wonderful families who play games and spend time together |
| 2:06.0 | but they're devoid of any knowledge of God. What is it that makes the Christian family distinctive? |
| 2:12.0 | It is the fact that they gather within the framework of the |
| 2:15.7 | instruction of God. I'm not going to go back and reiterate the wonderful story of the |
| 2:21.1 | reading of the law in chapter 8 and then the discovery of the fact |
| 2:24.5 | that they were supposed to build booths and have a wonderful celebration on their |
| 2:29.1 | rooftops and in their courtyards. I've mentioned it to you before it bears repetition. I move quickly by it. |
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