ABCs OF Parenting

Learning to apologize as well as to forgive, is an important life skill. So many of us have yet not acquired the simple skill of saying we’re sorry, even in adulthood. Contrary to what some people think, and most children at first believe, apologizing is not a sign of weakness or a sign that you are a bad person. It is, in fact, a sign of strength. It is a demonstration that you have the moral fibre to identify your own mistake, and the courage to express this to whoever you have wronged or hurt.

Teaching a child to say sorry involves a complex set of responses on the part of a parent. It involves teaching your child to be empathetic: Which means, learning to put himself in the shoes of the person who he has hurt. Few kids before the age of five are able to imagine how someone else feels. This emotional skill has to be fostered by the parent.

Helping a child learn to admit when a mistake or inappropriate action occurs is an important part of developing a child’s character, and preparing children to relate to others. How do we teach this rather abstract, but essential social skill?

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About Abortion

THIS GENERATION OF Christians should more clearly understand the sometimes confusing positions taken by the mainline Protestant Church in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A good example of the confusion can be seen in my own denomination, The United Methodist Church. Most of our denominational leaders would claim that our official position on abortion is that we are pro-choice. However, as one looks at our official United Methodist statement on abortion in the Social Principles of our Book of Discipline, the current statement has much more about it that affirms life than affirms abortion. It is not totally accurate to say the official United Methodist position is pro-choice. Let me explain why. Click to Download

The Azusa Street Revival

GIVEN all the demands that press in upon us as we deal with the stress of the present moment and living in angst about what is to come, it is easy to become disconnected from our past. Why even bother with what has been? Yet, as someone has said, if we don’t learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat the past. That is the negative side of why we should study the history of the Church. The positive side is that there is much in the past that will inspire, breathe into us hope, and create fresh motivation for our own historical journey. History is the harbor of our heritage and the fountainhead of our families. Click Here To Download The Book

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