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  • Before I Became A Counsellor, While I Was Still ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 16, 2010
     | 1,037 views

    Before I became a counsellor, while I was still going to school, I worked as a family support worker. Essentially I would pick up kids from troubled homes who social workers were involved with but hadn’t taken the children away yet, and I would spend a couple hours with them and take them back ...read more

  • I Want To Buy An Hour

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Jun 17, 2005
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    I WANT TO BUY AN HOUR A man came home from work late again, tired and irritated. He found his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door. "Daddy, may I ask you a question?" The dad replied: "Yeah, sure, what is it?" "Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?" The dad got mad and said, ...read more

  • A Young Boy Gets A Driving ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
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    A Young Boy Gets A Driving Permit A young boy had just gotten his driving permit. He asked his father if they could discuss his use of the family car. His father took him into his study and said, “I’ll make a deal with you. You bring your grades up, study the Bible a little, get your hair cut, ...read more

  • Gift For The Children's Home

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 16, 2010
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    GIFT FOR THE CHILDREN'S HOME A tired stay-at-home mom opened the front door of her home to find the preacher from the church, who said, "I’m collecting donations for the new children’s home we’re building. Just asking you to give what you ...read more

  • Santa-Claus-Is-Watching Theology Is Bad ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 10, 2010
     | 1,535 views

    Santa-Claus-is-watching theology is bad theology, and I make no apologies if I ruffle some feathers. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard a parent (often a mother but not always) say something like this: Look Jimmy, stop it now (Jimmy keeps being naughty, pulling tins off the shelf in ...read more

  • Raising Children Is An Incredibly Hard And ...

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
     | 1,457 views

    "Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the ...read more

  • Govern A Family As You Would Cook A Small Fish ...

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on Jan 5, 2011
     | 1,901 views

    "Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very ...read more

  • The Son And The Rose

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 22, 2011
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     | 2,836 views

    THE SON AND THE ROSE Arnold Prater, in his book You Can Have Joy! tells about a man in a little English village named John Deckard. He was a clerk in a textile factory. A modest and quiet man, he lived in an ordinary little house at the edge of town with his wife and his six-year-old son, Rob. ...read more

  • Too Late

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 14, 2011
     | 1,938 views

    TOO LATE On his birthday, my husband was stuck driving our six rambunctious children around. As usual, they were yelling, punching, and annoying one another. Joel finally had had enough. "Kids," he said over the din, "if you would behave and be kind to each other, that would be a very nice ...read more

  • Knots In Your Life

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 21, 2011
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    KNOTS IN YOUR LIFE The Baxter boys, Paul and John, liked to play in the woods near their home. They like the woods because they always found something they had never seen before. That's the way it was when they discoverd the tree with the knot tied in it. The knot was about halfway up the tree. ...read more

  • Actual Time Served

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 21, 2011
     | 1,572 views

    ACTUAL TIME SERVED One of the great challenges parents face today is the apparent lack of consequences that permeate our society. One aspect of our judicial system provides an example of this sad fact. In spite of the length of sentences for various crimes, the actual time served is often much ...read more

  • Reality Therapy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2011
     | 2,703 views

    REALITY THERAPY Aaron was an eleven-year-old boy whose behavior was described by Dr. William Glasser, his psychiatrist, as horrible. In his book, Reality Therapy, Glasser says Aaron was the most obnoxious child he had ever met. The boy would kick, scream, run away and hide, become withdrawn, ...read more

  • Benjamin Franklin: "Teach Your Child To Hold His ...

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Sep 15, 2011
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    Benjamin Franklin: "Teach your child to hold his tongue. He will ...read more

  • Stepping In His Big Tracks

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jan 4, 2012
     | 1,424 views

    STEPPING IN HIS BIG TRACKS I remember once when we had a two-foot snow in Smyrna, Tennessee— something rare even then. I’d gone out into the snow early that morning and it was really futile, because the snow was so deep and so soft that when I stepped down into the snow, the snow went so far up my ...read more

  • What Happens At Home

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
     | 2,443 views

    WHAT HAPPENS AT HOME Howard Hendricks used to say to us men in seminary preparing to lead churches, "If your Christianity isn't working at home, don't export it." It was his way of saying, "If you can't make your faith work in your own family, then please don't try to make it work in the family of ...read more

  • Joe Bayly, A Christian Author And Leader, Had A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
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    Joe Bayly, a Christian author and leader, had a son named Tim who was not following the Lord. This caused great tension in the home until one day Joe told his son he had to move out. Taking Tim aside, he said, "Tim, you're not living for God and you need to leave our home." Tim left, but his ...read more

  • Tough Love  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2012
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    TOUGH LOVE "Living in this house is like living in hell," screamed the young girl as she stamped her feet on the way upstairs to her room. The mother stood looking at her daughter, a hint of tears forming in her eyes. She wanted to run up the stairs and hug her daughter but she knew the timing ...read more

  • The Forbidden Fruit  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jun 28, 2012
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     | 4,082 views

    THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT And the first thing God told Adam and Eve was: "Don't." "Don't what?" Adam replied. "Don't eat the forbidden fruit," God said. "Forbidden fruit? We got forbidden fruit? Hey, Eve . . . we got Forbidden Fruit!" "No way!" "Yes WAY!" "Don't eat that fruit!" said ...read more

  • Recently Reviewing The New Book By Dr. Tim Kimmel ...

    Contributed by Rodney Bowen on Feb 7, 2013
     | 1,368 views

    Recently reviewing the new book by Dr. Tim Kimmel title, CONNECTING CHURCH & HOME, I found my mind and hear really pierced with the current state of our in-church parenting. Churches and families need each other. And no, I am not referring to our family’s use of the free child care that the ...read more

  • A March 2009 Ap Article Demonstrates How Sinful ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 23, 2009
     | 646 views

    A March 2009 AP article demonstrates how sinful attitudes are passed on from one generation to another: "PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Rhode Island woman is accused of punching and biting her 11-year-old son’s school principal after she was told the boy was being suspended. Police say 30-year-old Aleyda ...read more

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