Scott Palmer - Preparing Children For Life

May 11, 2025

Preparing Children For Life

Mother’s Day- 2025

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

 

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”  Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)

 

Biblical Parenting Provides:

 1.   _____________________________.

“These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. Repeat them to your children (CSB)… Impress them on your children (NIV)… You shall teach them diligently to your children (NKJV)”  Deuteronomy 6:6-7a

 

  • Be ___________________

“But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,” I Peter 3:15 (ESV)

 

2.   _____________________________.

“Discipline your children while there is hope. Otherwise you will ruin their lives.”  Proverbs 19:18 (NLT)

 

  • Be ___________________

“Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” Deuteronomy 11:19 (CSB)

 

3.   ____________________________.

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24 (ESV)

 

  • Be ___________________

“Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8 (CSB)