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Matthew 18:32 “Then, after he had summoned him, his master said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you? ’ A way to dissolve my anger is to remember how great the debt of sin I was released from.

""My child may have made mistakes, but he really is a good boy." As much as we might want to believe that, we need to realize that ultimately, question of "goodness" doesn't have to do with what we perceive or think, but whether our child truly has received Christ as his Savior."

"Rather than expecting that only children of all Christians will be saved, we should anticipate continued spiritual warfare and division until Christ returns,"

"Equipping a child with spiritual truth is no guarantee she or he will follow Christ. I know many diligent parents and grandparents whose hearts have been broken by a family member's rejection of Christ. We can only plant the seeds my teaching and living out the truth. How they respond is out of our hands."

"In order to understand the meaning of Proverbs 22:6, we need to grasp the nature of the proverbs overall. The book of Proverbs is not a collection of promises that will be fulfilled as long as condition for the promise is met."