priceless gifts a parent can give
January 10, 2010

Four priceless gifts which any parent can give their kids:

1. Faith

• Joshua 24:14-15
• 2 Tim 1:3-5 “…I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.”

2. Appropriate structures and boundaries

• proverbs 13:24 “If you love your children, you will correct them; if you don't love them, you won't correct them.”
• Proverbs 19:18 “Discipline your children while there is hope. Otherwise you will ruin their lives.”
  
• 1 Samuel 3:11-13

3. Unconditional love

• 1 Peter 4:8 “Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins”

4. Yourself

big idea:
The best gifts a parent can give their child cost nothing, but mean everything, and help kids chart a strong course in life.