Dale Partridge - Children in the Home

00:00:00.000 Welcome to our home. My name is Dale Partridge, and I'm here with my lovely wife, Veronica.

00:00:10.100 Hello.

00:00:11.080 Our hope is to help you cultivate a glorious Christian home.

00:00:15.980 This episode is titled Children in the Home, and if you're new here, each episode is broken

00:00:20.480 into two parts. Part one is available for free on every podcast platform. Part two is only

00:00:27.960 available in the relearn app if you're not familiar with the relearn app it is a library

00:00:33.780 filled with theological content for the christian life for your spouse for you for your family for

00:00:40.400 your children it is such a wonderful resource we have been building over there filled with

00:00:46.380 hundreds of audiobooks that we're adding sometimes even two a day audiobooks ebooks videos all types

00:00:53.720 of things for just a small monthly fee that supports our ministry. I often communicate

00:00:59.340 to people recently just because they're asking me what the relearn app is. And basically what

00:01:04.880 we're doing is we're taking great Christian content from previous generations from the 1600s,

00:01:10.660 1800s, early 1900s. It's public domain content. What we're doing is we are mining out these gems

00:01:17.020 of theological gold are really helpful reminders

00:01:21.480 for this generation.

00:01:22.740 We're modernizing it, we're editing it,

00:01:24.980 we're bridging it, and we're professionally recording them,

00:01:27.960 putting new titles, new covers.

00:01:29.640 It's actually a lot of work,

00:01:30.820 but it's theological preservation.

00:01:34.540 It's the preservation of great teaching

00:01:36.700 and preaching from previous generations.

00:01:38.700 We're also adding new stuff,

00:01:40.420 including all of my books are available in there

00:01:42.640 as eBooks and audio books.

00:01:44.240 But check it out.

00:01:45.440 If you go to relearn.org forward slash app, you can look at the entire library of content.

00:01:50.500 You can also find the welcome home section to listen to all of the part two sections

00:01:55.700 of this podcast.

00:01:58.300 Okay.

00:01:59.060 In part one today, we're going to be discussing what raising children in a Christian home

00:02:06.980 with a focus on how to have a heavenly home or how to have a heavenly perspective on home.

00:02:13.840 in part two we're going to be talking about kind of a related topic but i think it's very important

00:02:20.960 to discuss the title of that will be the effect of a father's travel schedule on children and

00:02:28.820 that'll be around dads who have jobs that require them to be gone often and this is going to be a

00:02:38.260 very important conversation we've dealt with this much in our ministry and i think it'll be very

00:02:43.480 helpful for those that are dealing with that problem and how to overcome that so let's open

00:02:50.680 up with part one children in the home and i'm going to start and veronica you pipe in when you

00:02:56.580 want to one of my favorite historical prayers is from a book called the valley of vision which is

00:03:03.960 a collection of puritan prayers and the prayer that i'm going to read to you today is a prayer

00:03:08.740 for the home. And it has a particular line in this prayer that I want to discuss, but I'm going to

00:03:13.660 just read a part of the prayer. It says, Oh God, I cannot endure to see the destruction of my own

00:03:21.400 children. Let those who are united to me in tender ties be precious in thy sight and devoted to thy

00:03:29.040 glory. Sanctify and prosper my domestic devotion, instruction, discipline, example, that my house

00:03:37.440 may be a nursery for heaven,

00:03:40.840 enriched with trees of righteousness

00:03:42.820 of thy planting for thy glory.

00:03:45.560 Let not those of my family

00:03:47.080 fall short of heaven at last.

00:03:49.660 Grant that the promising appearances

00:03:51.500 of a tender conscience,

00:03:53.320 soft heart,

00:03:54.600 the alarms and delights of thy word

00:03:56.660 be not finally blotted out,

00:03:59.080 but bring forth judgment unto victory

00:04:01.360 in all whom I love."

00:04:03.760 End quote.

00:04:04.900 So first,

00:04:06.340 don't you wish you wrote prayers like that yes definitely anytime i hear a puritan prayer i'm like

00:04:12.100 man i got a lot of work to do yeah just a real deep devotion the phrase i want to focus on is

00:04:19.400 that my house may be a nursery for heaven the imagery here is this sacred place that we get

00:04:28.980 to build where children are nurtured not only in earthly matters like sports and skateboarding

00:04:36.500 if you're at our house uh but also spiritual truths right where the seeds of faith are sown

00:04:42.100 they're cultivated with like a real intentionality and tender care um it's an atmosphere where mom

00:04:50.560 and dad, you know, by God's grace, we're infusing the home with holiness and a vision, not just

00:04:58.760 for the present, but for the future state for heaven. Um, it's a work of kind of weaving

00:05:03.940 the gospel into the fabric of our lives in every possible way. And, you know, we do this

00:05:10.280 through other episodes that we've talked about, you know, regular prayer and devotion and

00:05:15.240 scripture reading and you're doing um scripture memorization right now with the kids musical

00:05:22.600 praise we've done scripture memorization we've also done like the apostles creed things like

00:05:27.100 that other you know um documents or prayers of saints past um we've done memory work for those

00:05:34.600 things those things as well so yeah we're constantly figuring out ways to weave it together

00:05:38.600 but i want to talk really about just this overall if we're going to use a new age term aura

00:05:46.440 of don't worry we're not new age over here but that term has been hijacked by the new agers but

00:05:52.280 it's it's a good word of just kind of the overall vibe right uh healing feeling atmosphere atmosphere

00:05:58.840 that's a little better we want to give them a foretaste of the kingdom of god the order of the

00:06:05.720 the kingdom the holiness the submission to the kingship of christ um you know in every possible

00:06:14.760 way i mean we have it's funny our church has these signs called that say christ is king and we have

00:06:20.200 it their yard signs and so we have them in front of our house um there's actually lots of our

00:06:26.360 neighbors that have them in front of their house now but our kids just see that it's a small thing

00:06:32.440 but they see that christ is king and and what are you gonna say you're smiling i'm just laughing

00:06:36.840 because um we in our neighborhood we have several people that go to our church that also live in our

00:06:42.600 neighborhood and so sometimes in the evenings after dinner we'll meet up with somebody just

00:06:46.440 hang out with them for like an hour or two and then come home and so in arizona it's not against

00:06:51.880 the law for your for people to sit in the bed of the truck and so if the weather's nice we'll just

00:06:58.040 let the kids go on the bed of the truck while we drive you know one street over to go to our

00:07:01.960 friend's house and i remember one time we were driving home and um honor he's he just turned

00:07:08.360 eight a couple of days ago but this is you know almost a year ago uh he was sitting in the back

00:07:13.240 of the truck and i turn onto our street and i just hear him go christ is king like super loud

00:07:20.520 multiple times i've done i've done that too yeah both boys have done that basically

00:07:24.600 they're yelling the neighbors you know christ is king christ is king i'll get out of the truck he's

00:07:28.920 like mom mom did you hear me like at the first time actually i heard him yell something that

00:07:33.400 i didn't know what he yelled yeah i was like no what was that and he goes i just yelled christ

00:07:36.920 is king to everybody he's like i yelled christ is king to that halloween house oh yeah i remember

00:07:41.880 that i said all the halloween decorations um so i want to talk kind of again high level here

00:07:50.200 and i want to discuss covenant children thinking about children covenantally i think this is kind

00:07:59.440 of a big shift for us when we first met with doug wilson um in moscow like five six years ago

00:08:07.760 yeah it was a long time ago he has a quote that says hard legalism is never attractive

00:08:12.980 panicked insecurity is not attractive either what you need to do is have a seat on the couch

00:08:20.100 and have your kids line up in front of you.

00:08:22.680 And then you would say something like this,

00:08:24.960 quote, children, as you know,

00:08:27.600 your mother and I are going to heaven.

00:08:29.520 What I wanted to do here is to let you know

00:08:31.720 that you are coming with us, end quote.

00:08:35.180 And it's a fun, it's a little bit of a tongue in cheek,

00:08:39.500 but it's a fun way to essentially let your kids know

00:08:47.280 that as for me and my house,

00:08:48.920 we will we will serve the lord and you are part of the household part of the household so when you

00:08:55.340 when you become a citizen at in another country let's just say that veronica and i went to brazil

00:09:03.740 and we got brazilian citizenship uh well our children would be nationalized with us

00:09:11.060 like our young children would be nationalized with us

00:09:13.400 um and so the same is true is that when you are baptized into the covenant um your children are

00:09:22.780 are nationalized with you that is the historical reality it's why um you're gonna if you're feeling

00:09:31.380 this right you should be thinking about infant baptism and the whole discussion around the

00:09:35.880 presbyterian belief of that and why that works together with this kind of thinking

00:09:39.820 i actually did a sermon probably five months ago now four months ago now called a biblical defense

00:09:47.060 for infant baptism now i've been a baptist my whole life so how many years did it take me do

00:09:54.080 you feel like studying yeah infant baptism yeah i feel like you were studying that probably

00:10:01.640 six years ago or so six seven years ago yeah and do you remember coming in the house going like

00:10:08.940 flip-flopping back and forth just like yeah i think i see it and then no no we're baptists

00:10:13.980 we're baptists and yep yep yeah and so i mean you'd go through several spurts of studying so

00:10:19.820 you'd study and then you'd be like nope still baptist and then you know a year or two later

00:10:24.940 you would delve back into that and nope still baptist um but you're definitely wrestling with

00:10:30.540 that for a long time yeah i remember actually during seminary i had to read all these presbyterian

00:10:38.940 writings so like jonathan edwards and martin lloyd jones and rc sprawl and um thomas watson

00:10:47.620 and all the puritans and calvin and and i'm like all these guys baptize infants like what what do

00:10:53.560 they know that i don't know and it's this covenantal thinking and uh so if you want to

00:10:59.380 listen to my sermon a biblical defense for infant baptism would be helpful probably with this

00:11:02.780 discussion today you can listen to on the kingsway sermons podcast it's also in the app

00:11:08.260 it's available in the app for you to listen to it's a three-part series but the more i study it

00:11:13.300 the more i'm convinced that that is the biblical position um but thinking covenantally is key

00:11:20.740 because it's believing that your children are actually going to be christian in the sense of

00:11:27.540 being born again but also believing that they are christian in the sense of how like an israelite

00:11:33.460 parent would think about their child they're they're a jew they're an israelite like uh they're

00:11:41.800 part of god's people um they would never think individually like why wouldn't they be they're my

00:11:48.440 children yeah they're they're not the children of the hindu family that worships the hindu gods

00:11:53.920 no my children if you were an israelite pre in the old covenant you would go my children uh we

00:12:01.460 worship the, you know, the one true God and yes, children, you're going to worship the one true

00:12:07.320 God too. It wasn't like thinking of us as independent autonomous entities like we do in

00:12:12.640 America. You know, it was thinking very corporately or familial structure. You know, I think about

00:12:21.480 Abraham, the promise to Abraham that all the families of the earth will be blessed in his

00:12:28.020 seed. God saves family and family lines. So the way that God saves people is that he saves a person

00:12:35.040 and he grafts that person into the, the, the tree of life, or, you know, if you want to use these

00:12:41.280 imagery and to the vine, right. And we are, uh, to, to marry within, um, the church, right. So

00:12:50.260 we're only to marry other believers according to scripture. And so we have a, we have now created

00:12:54.560 a family that births out children that are a part of that family line. And we don't need to treat

00:13:03.000 them as independent entities. Like you make your own decision. You got to come to the Lord on your

00:13:06.140 own. This is you, this kind of sense of independent, autonomous individualization that we have in the

00:13:12.360 church. We expect our kids to be Christians because God gave them to us. He didn't give

00:13:19.680 honor and valor and aria and deacon to the atheist family or the hindu family or the muslim family

00:13:27.500 he gave them to us and for us to steward yeah us to nurture and train them up in the nurture

00:13:35.720 and admonition of the lord um yeah it's it's really awesome when you view it that way because

00:13:42.360 it's one it's really humbling it's such an honor but it also makes you want to

00:13:49.960 truly invest your time and resources well into your children so i think about this as like

00:13:57.880 we think about the doctrine of unconditional election it's not random election god's not

00:14:02.680 like randomly electing people like i'll save this guy and then that guy over there no god actually

00:14:08.920 intends to save down family lines it's really beautiful if you've seen this in a family

00:14:14.280 where you have you know mom and dad are christian grandma and grandpa are christian all the children

00:14:20.520 are christian um their children are christian um great great grandchildren are christian that's

00:14:26.280 a beautiful thing now i'm not saying that god promises that every single child will be saved

00:14:31.000 i i think if you go out and look at a tree and you look at a branch

00:14:34.680 the normative reality of a branch that is healthy and into the trunk of that tree is that it grows

00:14:43.240 produces leaves and fruits on that branch now if you look at any branch you're going to see

00:14:47.560 a couple dead twigs and a couple dead leaves and you're going to see that but the normative

00:14:52.360 reality is that you're seeing fruitfulness and if we as parents are faithful um we should expect

00:15:00.920 this is the what i would call the doctrine of expectant redemption we should expect we should

00:15:06.360 not doubt that god intends to save our kids we i don't doubt that he's going to save all of our

00:15:11.560 kids i i think that all of our kids are saved we don't know what deacon deacon small right

00:15:17.640 but like i don't i don't have any doubt that that god's going to save deacon because

00:15:23.000 the means of coming to christ is the gospel and we preach the gospel

00:15:30.920 all day every day in our home and our older three understand it and can communicate it as well

00:15:37.380 yeah and and they're they're demonstrating fruit and conviction and their own childlike way

00:15:43.260 and so there's a lot there and it's worth a study and we can't talk about it all here but I want to

00:15:51.480 talk about the difference between covenant nurture and evangelism and I think covenant nurture

00:15:58.780 goes with this nursery for heaven so if you're if you're doing a nursery for heaven it means that

00:16:05.620 you expect your kids to go there right um you know covenant so we we think about this as

00:16:14.240 we want to evangelize our kids and it doesn't mean that we don't share the gospel to our kids

00:16:19.420 but i don't think i'm sharing the gospel to my kid that's an outsider of the covenant

00:16:24.760 that like he that the chances of him coming to christ are the same chances of the hindu boy

00:16:31.800 coming to christ i don't think that i think that i expect god to save my kid and that i'm going to

00:16:38.300 communicate the gospel and i'm going to nurture him in a gospel home and they need to be gospel

00:16:44.840 fluent though in order to share the gospel with others yes they grow older so it's it's a subtle

00:16:50.540 shift from raising them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, because they're your

00:16:56.400 kids and you're Christian, then thinking of them as pagan outsiders that need to be evangelized

00:17:08.140 the same way that the guy on the corner does. And I don't think anybody in their home actually

00:17:14.320 acts like that but i think there's a mentality there um that shifts now i'll say this for this

00:17:20.860 reason why when when a five-year-old or a six-year-old comes to you and and can communicate

00:17:26.180 the gospel because you've catechized them you've raised raised them in christ um and they they the

00:17:31.880 parents like i don't think we should baptize this this kid this is just a wrong perspective on

00:17:36.620 baptism but i'll just play a baptist role for a second they they i don't think we should baptize

00:17:42.260 this this kid and you remember we were doing that too i think i struggled with it more than you did

00:17:47.860 yeah because i would be like are you sure they just did this yeah so so exactly so yeah veronica

00:17:53.700 was now like looking back i could see it a little bit more clearly but we were still like you know

00:17:58.340 new to pedo baptism or covenant theology yeah covenant theology and so it was i was still

00:18:04.580 trying to grasp it all and in a little bit of legalism because because veronica was like are

00:18:09.860 are you sure that we should baptize Arya?

00:18:11.740 Because she just sinned.

00:18:13.640 And I'm like, but you just sinned today too, right?

00:18:17.200 And so the key thing-

00:18:19.840 Does that mean I need to go get unbaptized?

00:18:21.260 Yeah, and re-baptize, 0.67

00:18:22.140 that's the Baptist way of thinking.

00:18:23.960 The key thing is our children expressed faith

00:18:27.380 that was appropriate for their age. 0.98

00:18:30.040 And what do Baptist parents often do? 0.97

00:18:34.600 When a seven-year-old comes up to them

00:18:36.420 and communicates the gospel and asked to be baptized,

00:18:38.680 what do they do?

00:18:39.860 okay well we'll see we'll see yeah we'll see are you sure we'll see we'll give it

00:18:45.320 some time to see if you can basically prove yourself what does that do to a

00:18:49.880 child I think it makes them have doubt it makes them question themselves what am I

00:18:56.840 I mean I do love the Lord I think I do but maybe I don't it's yeah it's your

00:19:02.960 lane also like if you're basing it off of their actions it almost makes them

00:19:06.960 become little legalists it does yeah veronica's like having her mind open right now just realizing

00:19:14.620 that she was a little bit of a legalist i was too don't worry hey um never mind i'm gonna get into

00:19:20.080 that um yeah but it's just uh it makes them a little legalist because it makes it all about

00:19:25.880 rule following and performing making sure they're checking all the boxes um not about faith it's

00:19:34.000 It's about proving that you're,

00:19:36.420 and again, there's an element of this where you're like,

00:19:38.860 well, yeah, you should be bearing fruit,

00:19:40.640 but it should be fruit.

00:19:41.680 We expect like 22-year-old fruit from our seven-year-olds.

00:19:45.580 That's the problem.

00:19:46.420 Is it like, no, you want fruit that's appropriate

00:19:49.580 for your seven-year-old who's very embryonic

00:19:53.340 in their faith, in their walk with the Lord.

00:19:55.760 Yeah.

00:19:57.520 Matthew 18, six says,

00:19:58.760 but whoever causes one of these little ones

00:20:00.320 who believe in me to sin,

00:20:01.960 it would be better for him to have a millstone fastened around his neck and 0.98

00:20:06.280 thrown to the bottom of the sea. Now, 0.99

00:20:08.440 I'm not saying that that's what people are doing.

00:20:11.320 I'm just saying is that God cares about his little ones.

00:20:14.960 And now the word, the context here, Matthew 18,

00:20:17.380 six is little ones is talking about anyone who's new in the faith,

00:20:20.000 but children are also new in the faith.

00:20:23.320 They just actually also happen to be little. Yes.

00:20:25.560 um and so how do we how do we take that consideration in in the home that your child

00:20:36.580 is so so let's just use deacon as an example okay so deacon's been baptized and he's he's seven

00:20:45.640 months seven months old he was baptized and he was probably three or four months old yeah and he

00:20:51.320 He is, you know, the way that a Presbyterian or a Reformed person would view baptism is that

00:21:00.720 baptism is not my testimony to the world that I'm saved.

00:21:06.780 It's God's testimony to the world of who I am.

00:21:11.900 And we see that in Jesus's baptism, right?

00:21:14.480 Who is the one testifying at Jesus's baptism?

00:21:17.980 Well, it's not Jesus.

00:21:18.980 you know jesus is baptized and the father testifies to the world who jesus is so we've

00:21:26.820 made baptism about ourselves um you know we have these these shirts that say i have decided and

00:21:33.260 it's all about me instead of god saved me or whatever but it's it's not my testimony it's

00:21:38.980 kind of like um when a farmer puts a brand on a cow and it says like that one's mine

00:21:45.460 um we're applying the sign and seal of the covenant it's covenant entrance the lord's

00:21:54.580 supper is covenant renewal or covenant sustenance but it's covenant entrance and um we are you know

00:22:04.320 again you might be thinking what does this change god's sovereignty over their salvation of course

00:22:08.380 not god will work despite our faithfulness but um we get to actually remind deacon that hey you're

00:22:17.120 a christian child born in a christian home you you've been baptized you're part of god's covenant

00:22:22.520 people um you're holy and set apart according to first corinthians chapter seven um and so

00:22:30.740 I'm going to hand it to you in a second

00:22:32.480 about

00:22:34.240 helping our kids

00:22:38.180 realize who they are

00:22:42.280 as Christians. 0.99

00:22:45.220 Like that's, they're the

00:22:46.700 Lord's and they have a God

00:22:48.880 and they are

00:22:50.860 his people and

00:22:52.740 he is their God.

00:22:54.220 And creating that atmosphere in the home,

00:22:58.000 what do you,

00:22:59.360 how do we do that?

00:23:00.440 what's, what are some ways that we have done that?

00:23:02.480 And what are some ways for families to do that, to start,

00:23:04.740 start thinking about them as little Christians,

00:23:06.720 like little people that are actually Christians covenantally a part of the

00:23:11.900 church. And what's the, what's,

00:23:16.000 what's been kind of your thought there.

00:23:19.140 I don't know.

00:23:19.360 Just the first thing that I can think of off the top of my head is,

00:23:23.400 is when they do sin and there does have to be a conversation and a

00:23:28.640 consequence is being able to relate to them i feel like when we were um more in the legalist mindset

00:23:38.880 it was just you know discipline and law it wasn't a lot of grace and understanding it was like be

00:23:45.440 better like me yeah exactly and it wasn't a lot of grace and understanding being like hey

00:23:51.680 i know what it's like to i don't know want to hit your brother or whatever it is yeah we've

00:23:57.440 got a bunch of boys well three boys um but two our two boys are only 17 months apart so they're

00:24:04.080 very close um and so just meeting them where they are and just like i i know what it's what it feels

00:24:10.720 like to want to hit my sibling i used to want to do that too you know what i'm an adult woman and

00:24:16.640 sometimes i want to hit people too but i but i don't yeah you're self-control so i think for

00:24:21.840 for us it's also just you know yes sharing the law but also bringing in the grace as well

00:24:28.320 i've even heard christian baptist parents an author who teaches at midwestern seminary his

00:24:36.720 name's donald whitney something along the lines he said like and actually likes most of his stuff

00:24:42.640 but he said something along the lines of like don't teach your kids to pray because until

00:24:48.080 they're saved god doesn't hear them and so or i've also met with a gentleman who wrote a couple books

00:24:55.840 for nine marks um and he said i i just don't let people get baptized until they're 18 because i

00:25:02.320 want to see their fruit and it becomes this like so it this again this performance based well it

00:25:10.960 takes away the let the little children come to me it takes away the pray like this our father who

00:25:15.680 art in heaven hallowed be thy name yeah like it it removes those passages of scripture yeah and

00:25:21.760 it's it creates just this weird culture of performance performance you know i like doug's

00:25:27.840 opinion he said something doug wilson he said um christianity imagine christianity was a nightclub

00:25:36.880 and the baptists are bouncers at the door they are people saying show me your credentials before

00:25:48.480 you can come in um presbyterians are the nightclub where you anybody can come in 0.94

00:25:57.760 but if you prove that you're not meant to be here we'll kick you out which is exactly 0.99

00:26:04.140 how israel functioned if you were born of an israelite family you were an israelite 0.62

00:26:11.820 you would partake in the passover and you would partake in the sacrificial realities

00:26:20.860 of the feasts and all those things that were going on but if you proved apostate

00:26:27.780 to the covenant you would be removed and so i think just the big thing is that just treating

00:26:35.100 our kids like they're christian all the time from early early age has been probably the biggest shift

00:26:42.780 for us right i mean yeah i mean it's i think it's still something that i'm trying to i have to be 0.93

00:26:48.960 aware of and do you ever worry that our kids aren't going to be saved i mean i have a flesh

00:26:54.920 there are days where i where i do but then i'm reminded you know it's what's the title of doug

00:27:01.000 and nancy's book standing on the promises oh yeah like i have to remind myself to stand on the

00:27:05.320 promises yeah scripture and trust that the lord will bless our faithfulness and save our children

00:27:13.640 yeah and that he just again he god loves to save families um just look at any faithful family and

00:27:20.040 look at their children and look at their grandchildren well and it also helps when

00:27:22.680 i look at the faithfulness in our own family like what god has done in our family yeah um

00:27:27.720 in little things and big things saving our son's life on multiple occasions it's like yeah you know

00:27:34.040 god has a plan for our son's life and he could have ended it on multiple times yeah we were

00:27:41.160 just on a podcast with uh katie and elisha katie elisha of oberg and their families are really

00:27:47.080 great examples of this right they're multi-generational yes faithful and you're just

00:27:52.200 like yeah like you shouldn't be shocked that if you plant a tree and you take care of it

00:27:57.800 that it will produce good fruit and that's just what multi-generational faithfulness does

00:28:04.200 and raising your children in the nurture and admonition of the lord um yeah that's probably

00:28:09.800 another reason why my flesh can struggle with it sometimes is just we're first generation

00:28:15.000 we're kind of paving the way and lord willing he will bless it and bring up our children and

00:28:21.480 our grandchildren behind them and our great grandchildren so that's that's uh you know

00:28:26.200 what we're aiming for and by god's grace and um he can equip us with what we need to

00:28:34.680 train our children well so the question you should ask yourself is how are you treating your children

00:28:40.440 are you treating your children with covenant nurture are you treating them like little

00:28:46.440 christians are you treating like them like they are in the covenant of the church or on the outside

00:28:53.380 not citizens of god's people but waiting for their credentials to come to be before you allow them in 0.80

00:29:00.460 are you having a nursery for heaven because you actually believe that your family is going there

00:29:06.920 and that your children are coming with do you have an expectant redemption doctrine that you can rest

00:29:14.920 and that God loves to save kids

00:29:17.800 and you expect that your children will be saved

00:29:20.440 because he gave them to you who loves the Lord.

00:29:23.700 So all important questions to discuss in your home

00:29:27.180 and some great resources would be

00:29:29.720 Standing on the Promises by Douglas Wilson.

00:29:33.520 And then I would again recommend listening

00:29:36.260 to my three-part series

00:29:38.720 on biblical defense for infant baptism.

00:29:42.140 them. We'll close it up right there. Thank you guys for joining us for listening to this part

00:29:49.580 one. We hope that this content will help you build a glorious Christian home. In part two,

00:29:55.700 we are going to be talking about the effects of a father's travel schedule on children. It's a very

00:30:02.220 important discussion for many families. And I hope that you'll join us there. You can do that by

00:30:07.140 going to the relearn app relearn.org forward slash app and you can sign up online and then

00:30:14.080 download the app for google or apple and log in and you will be able to see the welcome home

00:30:19.340 section on the listen tab and join us there so thanks for joining us in our home my name is

00:30:24.560 dale partridge i'm veronio partridge and we'll see you guys next week

Dale Partridge - February 27, 2024

Children in the Home

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript