Joel Rockey
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“Confession sends a crucial message to our children. It reminds them that, yes, my parents are imperfect, but they are deadly earnest about following Christ, about wanting to change, and about doing things God’s way. Failure to confess our faults sends the opposite message. “My parents talk much about Christ, but following him is not really that important to them. They don’t walk the talk. They tell us to do one thing, but they do the other. And when they fail, they go on as if it doesn’t matter.”
― Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting
― Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting
“Consistent, father-led family worship is one of the best, steadiest, and most easily measurable ways to bring up children in the Lord’s “discipline and instruction.”
― Family Worship
― Family Worship
“As I meditate on the gospel each day, I find my thoughts inevitably traveling from the gifts I’ve received to the Giver of those gifts; and the more my thoughts are directed to Him, the more I experience the essence of eternal life.”
― A Gospel Primer for Christians
― A Gospel Primer for Christians
“Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the “God” they described, I wouldn’t run to him for help either, and I’d be in a panic”
― Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do
― Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do
“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” said the Lion.”
― The Silver Chair
― The Silver Chair
Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
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