Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

by Paul David Tripp

Children come into the world with significant brokenness inside of them that causes them to push against the authority, wisdom, and guidance of their parents.

the scary truth that they have no power at all to produce anything in their children.

You remember that it was easier to announce the law than to give grace. You’d like to be free of regret, but you’re not.

Don’t let a day pass without doing it and don’t feel that it’s weird to talk about God all the time. He is so pictured by his creation that it is positively weird not to be reminded of him and talk about him all the time. And remember, the teenager needs this as much as the toddler does.

No one gives grace better than a parent who humbly admits that he desperately needs it himself.

And parents who know they need grace tend to want to give grace to children who are just like them.

Living in regret kidnaps your courage. Living in regret weakens or steals your hope.

We want parenting to be a series of events rather than a lifelong process.

It’s important because, as I said earlier, your children enter the world resistant to authority. They don’t tend to see that real life is found inside a life of willing submission to authority.