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THE FAMILY LIFE OF THE DISCIPLE: Christian Parenting 1

The primary responsibility of a Christian couple to their children is parenting. When we become disciples of Jesus Christ we are enjoined to use biblical methods of parenting. We are to raise our children according tto God's word, and not by family or tribal tradition and practices. God's Purpose for Our Children: God's order to our first parent, Adam and Eve was                                                                       "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth" Genesis 1:28 Bearing offspring is in God's will for the couple. God seeks godly children to carry his word to the next generation (Joel 1:3, Mal 2:15) Children are the first disciples of a Christian couple Children are a gift and reward from God not a nuisance or distraction, not liabilities but assets (Psalm 127:3-4) They are ...

JONAH THE DISCIPLE

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Rev. Dr. Isaac Augustus Agyare "...the word of the Lord came to Jonah.... 'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.'  But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord." Jonah 1:1-3  "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it." In other words, the word of the Lord comes to the prophet and tells the prophet to go and do something. What's unusual about this is that Jonah is called by God to go and speak to someone who isn't from Israel. This is unusual. Usually prophets, even if they are talking about other countries, they are talking to Israel about these other countries. But here, Jonah is being sent to someone else entirely. It's unusual because of that. It's also unusual for another reason and that's because Jonah is sent to preach to Israel's enemies and Jonah decides the heck with it. I am not going to do that. It shows that even...

WHO ARE YOU AROUND JESUS?

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For Discussion and Prayer (John 12: 1-11) "Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they cam...