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The Hardest Act in Parenting Teens

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Headship calls a man to put away his anger and initiate reconciliation — no matter how much of the fault lies with his wife or with his children.

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Well, today we look at parenting, particularly parenting through the teen years.

0:09.8

Parenting teens is full of pressures and challenges.

0:12.5

And one source of those pressures are the demands and the questions put on mom and dad

0:18.8

for which there are no easy answers.

0:21.4

We're trying to help our teens think for themselves with discernment in a very complex world.

0:27.6

And it is one of the pressures that Pastor John has identified as a trigger in men of

0:32.5

what we call a midlife crisis, a crisis that often hits a dad in his early 40s when

0:38.1

he has teens at home.

0:40.2

We saw that connection in APJ 1173.

0:45.2

Dads as leaders bear a particular calling to their homes of self-sacrificing leadership,

0:51.4

all to avoid giving the devil a foothold in our homes.

0:56.3

Ephesians 426 and 27 raises the stakes that high when it commands us, quote, be angry and

1:02.3

do not sin.

1:04.2

Do not let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity to the devil.

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And quote, high stakes.

1:13.9

In a 2007 sermon on this text, Pastor John spoke directly to dads of teens.

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He began with a word on modesty, but then transitioned to talk about a dad's hardest role in parenting

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and being a dad.

1:25.9

There are spiritual dangers, brothers.

1:29.9

Coming at our families from every side today, innumerable and subtle.

1:37.4

We need valiant warriors as never before, but not with spears and shield, but with biblical

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discernment and courage.

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