Rhonda

“Parenting is not first about what we want for our children or from our children, but about what god in grace has planned to do through us in our children. to lose sight of this is to end up with a relationship with our children that at the foundational level is neither Christian nor true parenting because it has become more about our will and our way than about the will and way of our Sovereign Savior King.”
― Paul David Tripp, Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

“successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.”
― Paul David Tripp, Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

“Living in regret robs you of your confidence. Living in regret renders you timid. Living in regret kidnaps your courage. Living in regret weakens or steals your hope. Living in regret drags the past into the present. Living in regret even drags the past into the future. And for all of its remembering, regret can be tragically forgetful. What is it that regret tends to forget? Regret tends to forget the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. On the cross, Jesus bore the entire burden of our guilt and our shame. On the cross, Jesus purchased, by the shedding of his blood, our complete forgiveness: past, present, and future. This means that we can boldly come to him in our failure, receive his forgiveness, deposit our regret at his feet, and move on to new and better ways of doing what he has called us to do as parents.”
― Paul David Tripp, Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

“Your job is be God’s tool for the purpose of forming the image of God’s Son in your children.”
― Paul David Tripp, Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family