Parenting is about praying for your children when you’re helping them get an afternoon snack or as you’re trying to get them to talk about their day. It’s about praying for them as you instruct, correct, and discipline. It’s about moments when your children hear you pray for them and hear you pray for you. Parenting is about teaching your children

If your eyes ever see and your ears ever hear the sin, weakness, and failure of your children, it is never a hassle, never an interruption, never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your children and has put them in a family of faith, and he will reveal the need of their hearts to you so that you can be his tool of rescue and transformation.

Don’t let a day go by without your children somehow, someway hearing the beautiful truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ once again. The mission of mercy you’ve been sent on as a parent has the gospel as its center. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the ultimate rescue mission.

grace of fresh starts and new beginnings.

don’t need to be rescued from the sin, weakness, and failures of my children. I have been called to be a parent because of their sin, weakness, and failures. Every moment of the foolishness and failure of our children should remind us why the heavenly Father provided children with parents. My struggle is not them; it’s inside of me. The fact that I

Here’s what mercy means for your parenting: mercy means that every action, reaction, and response toward your children is tempered and shaped by tenderness, understanding, compassion, and love. Parenting is a life-long mission of humbly, joyfully, and willingly giving mercy.

It’s not your weaknesses that you should fear, but your delusions of strength. Delusions of independent strength are a curse because they tell you that you have power that you don’t truly have and they keep you from resting and relying on the power that is yours in the presence and grace of the One who called you to be his representative in the

You do not have to load the burden of your children’s welfare on your shoulders every morning. Every day remind yourself of this truth. The welfare of your children does not rest on your shoulders, but on the shoulders of the One who sent you.

So your hope as a parent is not found in your power, your wisdom, your character, your experience, or your success, but in this one thing alone: the presence of your Lord. The Creator, Savior, Almighty, Sovereign King is with you. Let your heart rest. You are not in this parenting drama alone. Your potential is greater than the size of your