Gospel-Powered Parenting Quotes

“Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all,” concludes Martyn Lloyd-Jones. “We deserve nothing but hell. If you think you deserve heaven, take it from me, you are not a Christian.”
― William P. Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

“The believer’s fear of God is not the slavish fear found in the Old Testament. Rather, it is grounded in a sense of God’s holiness, his hatred of evil, the judgment my sin deserves, and the horrible fate of unbelief. Mingled with all of this is a profound sense of sonship, adoption, God’s free grace, and his extravagant, glorious, unearnable love. Those who rightly fear God increasingly revel in his infinite grace. The more one fears God, the more he or she confesses with Paul that nothing “will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:39).”
― William P. Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

“God created the institution of marriage to proclaim the gospel. Our children are the first audience impacted. God wants our children to see our marriages, behold the beauty of the gospel, and be irresistibly attracted.”
― William P. Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

“God created the institution of human marriage to reflect, or mirror forth, this eternal union. In other words, human marriage exists to point men and angels to the eternal marriage of Christ and his church. The gospel made this divine marriage possible. Here is our point: human marriage exists to preach the gospel. It exists to illustrate the fruit that should follow the preaching of the gospel in the church. To”
― William P. Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

“Confession sends a crucial message to our children. It reminds them that, yes, my parents are imperfect, but they are deadly earnest about following Christ, about wanting to change, and about doing things God’s way. Failure to confess our faults sends the opposite message. “My parents talk much about Christ, but following him is not really that important to them. They don’t walk the talk. They tell us to do one thing, but they do the other. And when they fail, they go on as if it doesn’t matter.”
― William P. Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

“Confession sends a crucial message to our children. It reminds them that, yes, my parents are imperfect, but they are deadly earnest about following Christ, about wanting to change, and about doing things God’s way. Failure to confess our faults sends the opposite message. “My parents talk much about Christ, but following him is not really that important to them. They don’t walk the talk. They tell us to do one thing, but they do the other. And when they fail, they go on as if it doesn’t matter.” Growing”
― William P. Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

“What I mean is that confidence in our virtues keeps more people out of heaven than all their adultery and drunkenness combined.” We cannot be good enough. We will never meet God’s standards. To please God, we must confess our bankruptcy. “None is righteous, no, not one. . . . All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one” (Rom. 3:10, 12, quoting Ps. 14:1, 3). We cannot be good enough because God requires perfection. “No one is perfect” is one of the most common expressions in the English language. That’s the problem. We must be perfect. Many Christians and non-Christians do good deeds. Many non-Christians care for the sick and serve in soup kitchens. Audrey Hepburn spent the last years of her life serving children in Third World countries. Paul is not saying that people do not do good deeds. He is saying that unless these deeds are done with faith toward God and for the glory of God, they earn no merit with God. It is not enough to do good things. The deed must proceed from holy motives. That is why we conclude that no one can earn heaven. It is utterly impossible.”
― William P. Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

“Virtue keeps more people out of heaven than all their sins combined.”
― William P. Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

“John Frame says it this way: Grace is God’s “sovereign, unmerited favor, given to those who deserve his wrath.”1 In his New Testament Commentary William Hendriksen adds, “God’s grace is his active favor bestowing the greatest gift upon those who have deserved the greatest punishment.”2 “Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all,” concludes Martyn Lloyd-Jones. “We deserve nothing but hell. If you think you deserve heaven, take it from me, you are not a Christian.”
― William P. Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting