Adults

What are we working toward as parents? What are we seeking to build? These may seem like simple questions. However, they challenge us and call us to have an overarching vision that holds all the menial day-to-day tasks of parenting together and sanctifies them with meaning and purpose. What we really need is a "big picture parenting worldview" according to Paul Tripp, "that can explain, guide, and motivate all the things that God calls [us] to do as parents," which is the goal for this six-week parenting class. The purpose is not so much to offer practical strategies (although we will likely talk about some) but to reorient us to God's call on parents—that is, to faithfully represent the existence, character, and plan of God. Parenting is a wonderful gift and a responsibility. Let's explore this subject together as we read and discuss Paul Tripp's book, 

Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family.

“Wisdom” can seem like a word only for deep thinkers and philosophers or sophisticated experts.  But in the Bible, wisdom is all about relationships and having the skill to navigate them. It’s not rules to obey but principles to follow that, when discerned and understood, generally lead to flourishing. The alternative to relational wisdom is relational folly, which brings disorder and difficulty into our lives. In this six-week class, we will consider the kinds of things we deal with in  everyday life and everyday relationships (with God and with others), things like: 

• pace and patience 

• love and honor 

• criticism and correction and conflict 

• knowing and being known 

These are the kinds of things that often get the best of us. For example, instead of a healthy pace we give in to sloth and idleness, or we go too fast by over-scheduling and doing every activity.  We desire to know and be known, to love and be loved, and yet struggle to listen in our conversations or to have self-control in our conflicts. Learning biblical wisdom moves us toward skill in the art of godly living, and grows our discernment and discretion so that we relate with growing competence and ability to complex commitments and relationships in our lives.

The book of Samuel is about choosing a king.  The book and teaching will trace the history of God's people from a situation where they had no king, to a time when God gave them the king they chose and to the beginning of the reign of the king they need.  

We all must choose who will be king of our lives; who will have our ultimate allegiance.  In the book of 1 Samuel we see God's sovereignty, love and mercy for his people and we are able to see Jesus more clearly and understand what it means to follow him - our one true King!

We encourage you to read the chapters 1-3 of 1 Samuel and complete the study questions related to this chapter from the study book below before our first meeting on September 8th.

Our time together will begin with fellowship, small group time to discuss the questions in the study book and prayer. We will finish our time together with a large group teaching.

Order book from here or: https://www.thegoodbook.com/1-samuel-choose-your-king

 from Amazon: Good Book Study Guide 1 Samuel

Men, I want to personally invite you to join us as we study the book of Exodus, the second book in the Bible and the crucial paradigm that reveals how God works redemption in our lives. Exodus shows us that the God of the Bible promises to take his people from bondage to liberty, from slavery to freedom.