Shepherding a Child's Heart

Chapter 11 Embracing Biblical Methods: The Rod The sincere entreaty accenting every syllable caught my ear. ...

some parents it may be a reaction to ways they were abused. For most of us it is a matter of style. ...

(^) Many questions about spanking children flood our minds. What is it designed to accomplish? Is it r ...

discipline will drive it far from him.” God says there is something wrong in the child’s heart. Folly or ...

ruled from without. This foolishness is bound up within his heart. Allowed to take root and grow for f ...

for the immediate gratification of his wants and desires. Ultimately, to refuse God’s rule means to choose ...

A Parental Exercise (^) Let’s look at the elements of this definition. By definition, the rod is a parenta ...

task. It is not my personality. Margy and I were exposed to some teaching from the book of Proverbs ...

A Physical Punishment (^) The rod is the careful, timely, measured and controlled use of physical punishment. Th ...

temper. As we will discuss more fully in the second section of this book, the rod must be used in the mos ...

(^) Another distortion is the notion that the rod must be associated with vindictive anger. A friend of mine ...

one who is precious to you. You are delivered from the inconvenience and loss of time that biblical di ...

Administering a spanking in the manner laid out in chapter 15 yields a child who is engaged and ...

children are not transformed overnight. They give up in discouragement. (^) D) Failure to be effecti ...

world. (^) The rod shows God’s authority over Mom and Dad. The parent who uses the rod as a matter of obedie ...

returns him to the place of submission to parents in which God has promised blessing. (^) The rod promotes a ...

each. The person who is comfortable with the rod can fall into the distortion of being authoritarian. A pare ...

(^) Chapter 12 Embracing Biblical Methods: Appeal to the Conscience It wasn’t a fast-paced program. Perhaps th ...

conscience. When the offended conscience is aroused, correction and discipline can find their mark. (^) Two b ...

(^) “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he d ...