A Father's Stew
The Biblical Integration of Family, Work & Ministry
Published on 1. May 2014
200 pages
978-1-60037-118-9 (ISBN)
Description
In an age where fathers are separated from their families for most of the day, how can we fulfill the biblical mandate to train our children when ""you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up"" (Deuteronomy 6)? Given our current culture, is it possible to integrate family, work and ministry in a biblical manner? What is God's provision for raising godly children and what are our responsibilities? Read on to discover God's vision for fathers as we are challenged from the Scripture to balance the areas of family, work and ministry and to blend these three ingredients to form a godly stew, a sweet smelling aroma to God.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- DEDICATION
- RAVE REVIEWS
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction
- Section I: First Things First
- Chapter 1: The Word of God
- The Sufficiency Of Scripture
- Our Culture Ignores Scripture
- No Substitutions Please
- No Private Interpretations
- No Selective Obedience
- Chapter 2: Godly Priorities
- Does God Have Priorities?
- Conflicting Priorities
- Section II: The First Ingredient - Family
- Chapter 3: What Does God Require?
- The First Great Neglected Priority
- Our Responsibility
- Chapter 4: How To Get There From Here
- The Givens
- Molding Our Children's Thinking
- Patterning Our Teaching After The Great Teacher
- Teaching Our Children About Finances
- Training Future Leaders
- Chapter 5: Something Has To Change
- Radical Lifestyles
- God's Sovereignty Over Our Free Time
- Educating Our Children
- A Warning
- Chapter 6: Patriarchal Examples?!?
- Do As I Say, Not As I Do
- Biblical Methods of Instruction
- Drastic Measures
- Section III: The Second Ingredient - Work
- Chapter 7: The Problem With Work
- My Story
- Solomon's Story
- Work Related Damage
- Chapter 8: Work Is Not The Problem
- Laboring For The Wind
- The First job
- An Alternative
- Section IV: The Third Ingredient - Ministry
- Chapter 9: The Biblical View Of Ministry
- Living Purposefully
- Judgment Begins With Us
- Chapter 10: Attaining The Goal of Ministry
- Christian Maturity
- God's Method For Maturity
- Our Modern Churches vs. Spiritual Maturity
- Chapter 11: The Necessity Of Discipleship
- Hand To Hand Combat
- The Price For Not Discipling Others
- Shore Up The Home Front
- Chapter 12: How to Disciple Another
- What Kind Of Shoes?
- Lay Your Cards On The Table
- How I Have Done It
- Epilogue
