Parenting Weekend

Contact

Anja Gaines
Lowcountry Biblical Counseling Center
info@lcbcc.org
843-278-0072

When

March 9, 10 - Parenting After God's Own Heart

Where

Lowcountry Biblical Counseling Center
6435 Fain Street, #A
North Charleston, SC 29406

Driving Directions

About the Speakers

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Tim Bryant has been the director of the Lowcountry Biblical Counseling Center for 8 years and has over 20 years of counseling and pastoral experience with a Master's in Biblical Counseling from the Master's College in CA. He has developed over 75 training session on biblical counseling and over 200 biblical counseling assignments to assist in helping people change biblically.

Dr William Hines has over 20 years of experience in counseling. Dr Hines received his D. Min at University of Liverpool and served as adjunct professor at LeTourneau University and Dean of the Biblical Counseling Department at Masters International School of Divinity. He has pubished two books: Leaving Yesterday Behind: A Victim No More and Curing the Heart: A Model for Biblical Counseling with Howard Eyrich, D.Min.

Becoming a Parent After God's Own Heart (8 Essentials) (Mar 9, 10- Fri 6:30-8:30pm, Sat 8:30am-2:30pm)

We Must Have Vertical Goals
We Must Have Prayerful Dependence
We Must Pursue Close Companionship
We Must Model a Godly Example
Children Need a Structured Environment
Children Need Consistent Consequences
Children Need Daily Conversations
Children Need Gentle Correction

You will be coached in how to apply eight biblical essentials in parenting found in Ephesians 6:4 and will walk away with a plan that is memorable and workable. And best of all biblical! No matter what your challenge, there are answers in the Bible. Come learn and discover how to increase your effectiveness as a parent. Parents who have attended give testimony to how the Lord moved them to hope, repentance, and practical application of God’s Word. There is such a need today for parents to establish biblical goals for their children, instead of the materialistic, self-exalting goals of our world. No matter what your challenge, as a parent you can establish a plan that pleases God. Don’t go it alone, come join with many others seeking help in the ministry of being a parent. Those who put their hope in the Word will not be disappointed.

(Once this weekend is over, you may order the audio and manual from this weekend or the entire conference. If you desire to order this, click here and let us know.)

Costs - Indiviudal only $25; Bring a Guest only $10 !

THE EIGHT ESSENTIALS OF BIBLICAL CHILD-TRAINING IS BASED ON EPHESIANS 6:4

VERTICAL GOALS & PRAYERFUL DEPENDENCE - Ephesians 6:1-4 tells us the goal of parenting is to bring children up "in the Lord". This means not only teaching our children to obey the Lord but to have a heart for the Lord whom they obey. The right goals for our children can be heard in David, a man after God's own heart, as he speaks to his young son Solomon on his deathbed about what is most important for him to pursue (see 1 Chronicles 28:9). As parents, we must continue to evaluate our goals in light of the reality of God or we will be influenced by the world to go after that which is passing away. And even with the right goals, we must remember apart from the Spirit's influence upon your heart and your child's heart, your labor in your child's life is in vain - therefore you must combine right goals with fervent prayer (Ps 127).

CLOSE COMPANIONSHIP & GODLY EXAMPLE - Ephesians 6:4 tells parents to "bring children up". This means that close companionship is necessary to accomplishing the goal assigned - much talk, much time and much tasting together. But, Ephesians goes on to warn us to "not provoke"; This means we must model for our children in heart and habits what we teach. If we are an ungodly example, our companionship will only provoke rebellion to God rather than promote a heart for God. We must combine both close companionship with our godly example for us to be effective as biblical parents.

STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT & GOD-CENTERED CONVERSATIONS (DAILY) - Ephesians 6:4 gives us two tools we are to use in parenting of our children - "discipline" and "instruction". There is a preventative side to discipline and instruction. Parenting is not to be just about disciplining and correcting children when they do wrong, but creating a disciplined environment and maintaining daily conversations to restrain the evil influences and sinful nature as we nurture inward wisdom. Parents who over look these two preventative tools will always feel like they are "crisis-managing", and eventually lose heart.

CONSISTENT CONSEQUENCES & GENTLE CORRECTION - Ephesians 6:4 gives us two tools we are to use in parenting of our children - "discipline" and "instruction". There is a remedial side to discipline and instruction. Because we are by nature rebels to God, parents should expect resistance to their attempts to raise their children "in the Lord". Creating the best disciplined environment and maintaining the best daily conversations with our children are not enough - though essential. So what do you do when your child refuses to obey your good structure and your good counsel? Choosing right consequences helps retrain the behavior especially in the early years, and choosing right words helps persuade the heart back to God, especially in the teen years (see 2 Tim 2:14-16).