What no one told us about
Parenting
February 4, 2024 - What No One Told Us About Parenting - Part 1
Pastor Jay Hackett begins our series on parenting with a message from Psalm 127 about biblical parenting. We are reminded that parenting should be purposeful, sometimes preventive, with a goal of productive parenting. How are we doing? Are we fully surrendered to Jesus in our homes?
February 11, 2024 - What No One Told Us About Parenting - Part 2
Pastor Jay’s message on Discipline is from Hebrews 12:4-11. There is a biblical mandate for a parent to discipline a child if they love them. It is not to be done in anger or because of embarrassment, but with a calm explanation of why something was wrong. Discipline should be consistent and teach that there are consequences for all actions - at any age.
February 18, 2024 - What No One Told Us About Parenting - Part 3
Pastor Jay refers to 1 Timothy 5:1-8 in today’s message titled “Parenting Your Parents.” As Christians, we are to honor and respect our parents, obeying them while we live with them, but honoring them all our lives. This is revealed in how we speak to them and how we take responsibility for their welfare as they grow older.
February 25, 2024 - What No One Told Us About Parenting - Part 4
Pastor Jay's message is from Ephesians 5:31-31, which emphasizes unity in the home. He interviews Musashi and Melanie Uchida about meshing the different parenting styles they were raised with, and they share that communication between them as parents give them the best outcomes in parenting and discipline in their family.
March 10, 2024 - What No One Told Us About Parenting - Part 6
Pastor Jay concludes this series on parenting by answering the question: “What happens when our child is out of the house?” The message from Isaiah 55:6-11 encourages parent of grown children to pray constantly for them to fall in love with Jesus, to share truth with them compassionately, and to trust God completely to love them even more than we do.
March 3, 2024 - What No One Told Us About Parenting - Part 5
Ephesians 6:1-4 explains that children and parents have specific roles in the family. Pastor Jay shares that both roles involve mutual respect. For children, that manifests as obedience. For parents, our roles evolve from caretaker to teacher to coach, and then, to cheerleader on the sidelines in our adult children's lives.