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Part 4: Obedient Hearts- Obedience First, Explanations Later
I had a friend once who said that he did not always feel an obligation to explain his instructions to his children. “Sometimes, when they ask why I’ll tell them why. But I want them to obey promptly...
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Part 5: Obedient Hearts “Discipline- Look at the Bright Side”
Parenting isn’t easy. Teaching obedience isn’t easy. I think the worst thing about teaching obedience is when we have to punish our children. It’s one of the “Catch 22’s” in life. The last thing we...
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Part 6: Obedient Heart “Authority—The Heavenly Umbrella”
We used the illustration of an umbrella as a symbol of God’s authority in our lives. He had a picture of one up on the screen as he explained that authority is not something to be feared or...
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Part 7: Obedient Heart “Is It Just Childishness?”
I’ll never forget it, though I must have been only about three years old at the time. I was sitting on my Daddy’s lap in the living room of our little duplex apartment. He was pretending that we...
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Part 8: Obedient Heart “Kids Can Be Appealing”
My children don’t always like what I require of them. I can understand that; I don’t always like what my authorities say, either. Sometimes it seems that we have only two choices: go along with...
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Part 9: Obedient Heart “It Takes Two to Tangle”
Surely there are few things that grate on a parent’s nerves like hearing our children fight with one another. It’s always the other guy’s fault, of course. He hit me as hard as he could for no...
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Part 10: Obedient Heart “There’s More To It Than Discipline”
I train dogs. I started learning how to do it when I was in the Security Police during my Air Force days. I went through a 12-week school to learn how to train and handle police dogs. Later I had a...
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Part 11: Obedient Hearts “Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother—and Thy Son and Thy...
I’m not trying to rewrite the Ten Commandments. They’re just right as they are. But I’d like to call your attention to a principle. That is the principle of honor. It is the essence of the first...
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Part 12: Obedient Hearts “The Many Faces of the Perpetrator”
I’ve noticed so many different responses when disciplining my children. When you have fourteen kids of course, you see quite a wide spectrum of personality types. And they all have their...
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Part 3: Obedient Hearts: Obedience- It’s Not Always Easy (a true story...
Sergeant York – Obedient Heart in Action “… A great story to illustrate to your children how obedience may be hard for the moment, but will lead to greater good in the end.” ~Rick If you’ve ever seen...
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