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Let’s talk about prayer. If we’re honest, and we should be, as believers we can find ourselves in a pickle. My mind wanders. I keep saying the same things over and over again. My prayers seem to bounce off the ceiling. I pray and look for answers and nothing happens. All of this leads us to pack our bags and go on a guilt trip. Don’t do that! Christian author Don Whitney joined the conversation and provided several key tips that could be a prayer game changer for you! https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/talk-to-god-in-his-own-language You can check out Don Whitney's book, "Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life" right here: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Disciplines-Christian-Donald-Whitney/dp/1615216170 Donate to Moody Radio: http://moodyradio.org/donateto/morningshow/wkesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's episode of Digging Deeper, Jeff and Laura engage with Don Whitney, a professor at Midwestern Theological Seminary, to explore the significance of prayer in the life of a believer. Prayer is a vital characteristic of Kingdom People, and the Holy Spirit instills a desire to pray in believers. The three discuss common struggles Christians face with prayer and the transformative practice of praying through Scripture, particularly the Psalms. The conversation also touches on how to hear God through His Word and the importance of praying in alignment with God's will, especially in the context of cultural moments like elections. Learn more about Don Whitney's ministry at mbts.edu/whitney/. Related resources: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel and hit the notification bell to get notified of new episodes.

Kyle Worley is joined by Don Whitney to answer the question; How does a church engage in the spiritual discipline together?Questions Covered in This Episode:How does a church engage in the spiritual discipline together?Do Christians think about fellowship the right way?Helpful Definitions:Spiritual Disciplines: practices found in the Bible by which we experience God and grow in Christlikeness.Koinonia (κοινωνία): Fellowship, talking about God and the things of God.Guest Bio:Don Whitney is the Professor of Biblical Spirituality and the John H. Powell Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served there in a similar position from 1995 to 2005, and then as Professor of Biblical Spiritual and Associate Dean at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, from 2005 to 2024.He has authored nine books, including Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life and Praying the Bible, and is a popular conference speaker, especially on personal and congregational spirituality.Resources Mentioned in this Episode:1 Timothy 4:7, Acts 2:42 Follow Us:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | WebsiteOur Sister Podcasts:The Family Discipleship Podcast | Tiny TheologiansSupport Training the Church and Become a Patron:patreon.com/trainingthechurchInterested in starting seminary and our new 100% tuition For the Church Cohorts? Learn more about what it means to study #ForTheChurch at Midwestern Seminary and apply for free with code KNOWINGFAITH at mbts.edu/apply.Sponsors:To learn more about our sponsors please visit our website. Editing and support by The Good Podcast Co.

Kyle Worley is joined by Don Whitney to answer the question, how do we pray the Bible?Questions Covered in This Episode:How do we pray the Bible?Where should people begin when starting to pray the Bible?Guest Bio:Dr. Whitney is Associate Dean of the School of Theology and Professor of Biblical Spirituality. Dr. Whitney is a member of Third Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of many books including but not limited to; Praying the Bible and Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life. Whitney is married to Caffy, and they have one child. Resources Mentioned in this Episode:“Praying the Bible” by Don Whitney“Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life” by Don Whitney Follow Us:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | WebsiteOur Sister Podcasts:The Family Discipleship Podcast | Confronting Christianity | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansSupport Training the Church and Become a Patron:patreon.com/trainingthechurch Interested in starting seminary and our new 100% tuition For the Church Cohorts? Learn more about what it means to study #ForTheChurch at Midwestern Seminary and apply for free with code KNOWINGFAITH at mbts.edu/apply.Sponsors:To learn more about our sponsors please visit our website. Editing and support by The Good Podcast Co.

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Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Don Whitney, entitled, "10 Things You Should Know about Prayer". Donald S. Whitney is a professor of biblical spirituality and associate dean at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He has written several books including 'Praying the Bible'. Read the essay here. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show!

This week I am delighted to welcome Dr. Don Whitney to the podcast. Dr. Whitney is Professor of Biblical Spirituality and the Associate Dean of the School of Theology at The post Episode 289: Cultivating Godliness in the Local Church appeared first on Preaching and Preachers Institute.

This week I am delighted to welcome Dr. Don Whitney to the podcast. Dr. Whitney is Professor of Biblical Spirituality and the Associate Dean of the School of Theology at Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. He has authored nine books including Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Biblical Spirituality, and several others.

This is Empires of the Future, conversations to understand culture and encourage the Church in a time of change.  Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald Whitney “Read the Bible, pray everyday, and you'll grow, grow, grow.”  This phrase common among christian teachers agrees with one of C.S. Lewis' sentiments that Christianity is a form of education in itself.  If so, what are the disciplines that come with it?  What is expected of a Christian?  Don Whitney's book Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life is a simple yet comprehensive answer to this question, and in this podcast we dive into Whitney's summary of biblical teaching regarding the disciplines.   "The Empires of the future will be Empires of the Mind." - Winston Churchill

Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Don Whitney, entitled, 'Five Reasons to Prioritize Family Worship'. Donald S. Whitney is a professor of biblical spirituality and associate dean at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He has written several books, including 'Family Worship'. Read the essay here. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show!

What makes a discipline spiritual, and what makes a spiritual practice a discipline? Don Whitney addresses six characteristics of Christian spiritual disciplines.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3279340/advertisement

What makes a discipline spiritual, and what makes a spiritual practice a discipline? Don Whitney addresses six characteristics of Christian spiritual disciplines.

Today on Karl and Crew Mornings, we finally kicked off our "June Journal Journey"! We talked more about what prayer through the Word of God looks like and how it can freshen up our conversations with Jesus. We talked to Don Whitney, author of "Praying The Bible", about prayer and how to continue to grow in it. We also talked with Pastor Steve DeWitt of Bethel Church about his new book, "Enjoying God in Everything: A Guide to Maximizing Life's Pleasures."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Doug and Brad Welcome Dr. Don Whitney to SWATRadio Sportscasting "Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life" The Power of Prayer when reading God's Word "Praying the Bible" Modeling the Prayer using Psalm 23 Psalms of the Day Links: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Disciplines-Christian-Donald-Whitney/dp/1615216170/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=spiritual+disciplines+for+the+christian+life&qid=1685128169&sr=8-1 https://biblicalspirituality.org/ ------------------ Acts 1-28   ------------------ 5 Core Values of SWAT 1. God's Word 2. Prayer 3. Evangelism 4. Discipleship 5. Community ------------------ https://swatradio.com/ SWAT - Spiritual Warriors Advancing Truth Call us Toll-Free at: +1-844-777-7928 Email Us a Question: ask@swatradio.com FIND A SWAT MEETING Woody s Bar-B-Que 226 Solano Rd Ponte Vedra, FL 10611 Wed. 6:30-7:30 am IHOP 3250 Hodges Blvd Jacksonville, FL 32224 Wed. Night 7-8 pm Salem Centre 7235 Bonneval Rd Jacksonville, FL Wed. 12:00-1:00 pm Jumping Jax House of Food 10131 San Jose Blvd #12 Jacksonville, FL Thursday 6:30-7:30 am The Village Inn 900 Ponce De Leon Blvd St. Augustine, FL Friday 9:00-10:30 am Woodmen Valley Chapel - Woodmen Heights Campus 8292 Woodman Valley View Colorado Springs CO 80908 Thursdays 8-9:15 pm

Jonathan and Dr. Don Whitney from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary explore the rhythms in our lives that help cultivate communion with God, the freedom in discipline, and the impact of family worship.

I get the chance to visit with Don Whitney who is professor of Biblical Spirituality at Southern Baptist Seminary. He's authored many books and our focus was on his great insight into spiritual disciplines.

Spiritual Disciplines - Romans 8:31&32 - Don Whitney

Message from Don Whitney on November 6, 2022

Message from Don Whitney on November 6, 2022

Message from Don Whitney on November 6, 2022

Don Whitney is the professor of Biblical Spirituality and Associate Dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. In this episode, Whitney discusses spiritual disciplines.

FROM SUNDAY 11 September 2022, we have a guest speaker. Dr. Don Whitney, Associate Dean of the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. TODAY'S MESSAGE IS "If God is For Us..."fbcmw.orgOriginally recorded on 09/04/22 at First Baptist Church in Mount Washington, KY.

In today's episode, Don Whitney talks about a simple, proven approach to prayer that has the potential to transform your spiritual life for the better. Don is the author of the Praying the Bible. Read the full transcript. For more of Don's ministry work, check out the study guide for Praying the Bible, another book by Don from Crossway on Family Worship, and Don's ministry Center for Biblical Spirituality. Click here to access a limited-time offer on Praying the Bible through Crossway+! If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show!

Travis welcomes Donald Whitney to the show! Are you having a hard time praying? Do you find yourself praying with the same old words? For the same old things? For many of us, prayer is a chore. We know that we want to do it and do it well, but don't feel like we are getting through. Or we don't feel like we are praying right: in the right ways for the right things, etc. Is there a way to get out of our prayer rut? Donald Whitney says, "Yes!" Don Whitney has been teaching believers to pray the Bible (in fact he has taught it over 600 times!). Donald gives us such a practical way to pray the Bible in such a way that anyone can do it! Learn more about https://www.sbts.edu/ (Southern Seminary) where Don teaches and http://biblicalspirituality.org/ (The Center for Biblical Spirituality) that he founded. Get the book https://www.amazon.com/Praying-Bible-Donald-S-Whitney/dp/1433547848/ref=sr_1_1?crid=OHULH5XO0DFV&keywords=praying+the+bible&qid=1654363995&sprefix=praying+the+bibl%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-1 (Praying the Bible). Sign up for the Apollos Watered https://linktr.ee/apolloswatered (newsletter). Help support the ministry of https://apolloswatered.org/support-us/ (Apollos Watered) and transform your world today!

Don Whitney talks about the discipline of worship. Learn more at biblicalworship.com

Don Whitney's Book Spiritual Disciplines in the Church 

Don Whitney's Book - Spiritual Disciplines in the Church 

If the only time your kids see you worshipping God is at church on Sunday morning, then your kids are missing out on a rich experience that could bond your family on a soul-to-soul level. Don Whitney and Lauren Chandler talk about worshiping together with their families.

How can you connect the dots between your good intentions and your everyday reality? Discover the freedom found in spiritual disciplines with Don Whitney.

Don Whitney's Book - Spiritual Disciplines in the Church

Dr. Don Whitney, Professor of Biblical Spirituality and Associate Dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of nine books, including Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, joins this special episode to share some simple family devotions you can implement in your family.

* This sermon is adapted from the following articles: “Why You Should Be Praying the Psalms,” by Don Whitney, September 10, 2015, published in The Center for Biblical Spirituality (https://biblicalspirituality.org/why-you-should-be-praying-the-psalms/) “7 Reasons You Should Pray the Psalms,” by Christopher Ash, August 27, 2018, published in The Gospel Coalition (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/7-reasons-pray-the-psalms/) “7 Most Important Reasons Why You Should Pray the Psalms,” Author unknown, August 16, 2021, published in The Psalms for Protection (https://psalm91.com/2021/08/16/7-most-important-reasons-why-you-should-pray-the-psalms/)

*This episode was originally published on August 17, 2020. This week I am delighted to welcome Dr. Don Whitney to the podcast. Dr. Whitney is Professor of Biblical Spirituality and The post “Best of Preaching and Preachers” Episode 179: Counseling Those Who Doubt appeared first on Preaching and Preachers Institute.

Should the New Testament believer fast? Why? How should I fast? Today's topic! Resources on Fasting Understanding the Discipline of Fasting (Biblical Foundations for the Christian Faith) by Paul David Washer. $5.25 Why Should I Fast? (Cultivating Biblical Godliness) Kindle Edition, by Daniel R. Hyde. $2.99 Kindle, $4.78 booklet Blog series at GTY.org by Don Green- The Heart of Christian Fasting, Part 1: Fasting in the Old Testament The Heart of Christian Fasting, Part 2: Fasting in the Sermon on the Mount The Heart of Christian Fasting, Part 3: Fasting in the New Testament The Heart of Christian Fasting Part 4: Fasting Today This book is a series of 8 sermons preached by English Puritan Arthur Hildersham at the outbreak of plague in 1625-26. It deals with corporate prayer and fasting but is still a worthwhile resource for what fasting is, preached by a more than credible source. Fasting, Prayer, and Humiliation for Sin by Arthur Hildersham, $9.99 kindle version only at Amazon, but available as hardcover book at Reformation Heritage Books on sale for $8.00. Other resources I have not read but can recommend are: Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, by Don Whitney. Chapter nine deals exclusively with fasting. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' book on his sermon series from Matthew deals quite a bit with fasting. Studies in the Sermon on the Mount. You will find lots of online quotations from Lloyd-Jones from his sermon on fasting Ligonier has a devotional on New Testament oaths. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2021/06/30/fasting-what-is-it-should-i-do-it-and-how-should-i-do-it/

Even when man is confronted with God's holiness his natural response to redesign God into his own image in order to make Him more pallatable. Come with us back to Mt Sinai and see how Israel came to the proper fear, yet could not respond as God had called them to.Check out this great resource: Family Worship: In the Bible, in History & in Your Home (by Don Whitney).Our Executive Producer is Lee Jones of fellow BAR Network podcast Guys With Bibles.

Divorce is in decline during 2020 and so is marriage. Today more than ever we need good examples of a godly marriage and there is no better couple in history than the Spurgeon's. Author and pastor Ray Rhodes joins me for a conversation about Charles and Susannah Spurgeon's marriage. His recent book "Yours Till Heaven" is filled with fascinating stories to show you the romance between Charles and Susie.  Find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Yours-Till-Heaven-Charles-Spurgeon/dp/0802419526During the show Ray mentioned several books to help with getting started on family worship"- "Family Worship" by Don Whitney- "Family Worship" by Joel Beeke- Family Worship Bible Guide" (notes from the Reformation Heritage Study Bible)

This week I am delighted to welcome Dr. Don Whitney to the podcast. Dr. Whitney is professor of Biblical Spirituality and the associate dean of the School of Theology at The post “Preaching and Preachers” Episode 179: Counseling Those Who Doubt appeared first on Preaching and Preachers Institute.

What are spiritual disciplines? How do we develop spiritual disciplines? In this conversation, Chase speaks with Don Whitney about how spiritual disciplines can align our hearts to Jesus. Subscribe to Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or listen in the FBC Loganville App.

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript  References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Teaching Kids to Love God Guests:                      Dennis and Barbara Rainey                                                           From the series:       The Art of Parenting: Relationships (Day 3 of 3)  Bob: As parents, we want our children to be skillful in relationships; but there's one relationship that matters more than any other—that is our children's relationship with Jesus. Barbara Rainey says that's something that, as parents, we can't engineer. Barbara: It's not our responsibility. I think that's where parents get confused—I know I felt it. I felt like it was my responsibility to teach my kids and to make sure they had a relationship with Christ, but that's not it. My responsibility was to present the truth to them and to model a relationship; it's God's responsibility to call their hearts. I think that's where we get mixed up, as moms and dads—we own what is not ours. Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, December 7th. Our host is Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. As parents, how can we prepare our child's heart so that, when the seeds of the gospel are planted, they can take root?  1:00 We're going to talk more today about our responsibility, as parents, to introduce our children to Jesus. Stay with us. And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us. I had kind of an “Aha” moment—this was a number of years ago—but I remember reading in Romans, Chapter 1, where it says that, since the beginning of time, it's been obvious to everybody that there's a God. That's not new news for anybody. Anybody who can look around and see the world/anybody who's aware of their own existence— Dennis: This is the Lepine paraphrase of Romans 1. Bob: Yes! This is what Romans 1 says: “If you're alive and you can take a breath, you know, deep inside, you're here because there is a God.”  2:00 The “Aha” moment for me was—as I raise my kids, my kids know there's a God. The issue is—I don't have to convince my kids that there's a God who exists—I just have to introduce them to the God they already know exists. Or my assignment is to explain who this God, that they know already, is; so they can have a relationship with him. We've been talking this week about relationships and how that fits into parenting and the priority for us, as parents, to help our kids know how to do relationships—to build strong relationships with our children to help them know how to relate to one another. At the core of all of this—they need to understand the God who created them and what it means to have a relationship with Him. Dennis: A listener recently wrote us, Bob, and said something very similar to that. She said: “Your broadcasts, in general, are so helpful; but a blessing to my life. First, as a follower of Jesus Christ.  3:00 But secondly, now that I'm 36 years old, I don't have the wisdom and the training to disciple my kids and to know how to pass this truth on to my family. You guys are equipping me with those biblical principles and spiritual growth so that our kids don't wither when they go out into the world, but they know how to thrive.” Bob: Well, we ought to say, “Thank you,” right here, at the beginning, to those who, not only listen to FamilyLife Today, but to those that make it possible for listeners like this to get the help and hope they need for their marriage and their family. Dennis: And as we're here at yearend, I just need to turn to you, as a listener, and invite you—and may I also say, “challenge you”—to join with us, financially, in this broadcast. Help make it possible so that others—not only you and your family—but that others can benefit from this broadcast as well. We need you right now to pull out a checkbook or a credit card— 4:00 —go online or get an envelope and put that check in the mail to FamilyLife Today—so that we can be on air with stories of redemption and hope that do give wisdom to those who are in the trenches. Bob, I think that's what marriages and families need today—is that practical biblical help and hope that FamilyLife Today can be counted on to provide. Bob: Well, as I've said, this is a particularly good time of year for you to make a donation; because we've had some friends of the ministry who have come along and offered to double every donation we receive. They're going to match it, dollar for dollar, up to a total of $2.5 million. For us to take full advantage of that matching gift, we need every listener, who has benefited from this program over the course of the year, to be as generous as you can be so that we can end the year in a strong position.  You can donate, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to donate. When you do, we're going to say, “Thank you,” by sending you a copy of the movie, Like Arrows, on DVD.  5:00 This is the movie we produced this year that was in theaters a few months ago. It's not available for purchase yet, but we have a limited supply we're making available to those of you who can help support the ministry this month. Again, you can donate, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to donate. Thanks, in advance, for supporting the work of FamilyLife Today; and thanks for listening to FamilyLife Today.  In fact, we want to focus today on what moms and dads can do to help raise the next generation. Dennis: That's exactly right. Earlier, we talked about how this big idea of training your kids in relationships begins with you. As parents, you're a mirror of how your kid is to love another person—you train them; you teach them; you instruct them; you coach them; you correct them.  We brought the number-one coach in the country in to this broadcast, Bob, to help us know how to best train our kids to love God.  6:00 Barbara Rainey joins us, again, on FamilyLife Today. [Laughter] Bob: Congratulations!—number one in the country. I didn't know that! Dennis: Coach of the year!—coach of the decade! Barbara: [Not sounding convinced] Yes. [Laughter] That doesn't feel quite right, since I know my failures so well. Dennis: We just finished a book called The Art of Parenting. In that book, we've got four big ideas: relationships, character, identity, and mission. We're wrapping up the relationship side—just reminding listeners that we, as human beings, are made to relate to God, as Bob has just said; and we are to relate to one another. Jesus pointed this out in Matthew 22—He said, when asked, “What's the greatest commandment?”: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'” And He summarizes: “On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” 7:00 In case you didn't get it, loving God and loving others is where parents ought to start as they train their kids; and it's not natural for them to know how to love God. Here's why—because it was God who built the bridge to your kid. First John, Chapter 4—if you haven't read this, read it to your kids: “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” He goes on to say we didn't love God first; He loved us first and, as He loves us, we learn how to love Him in return. Bob: Barbara, I would think that, for every mom and dad who knows Christ, the desire to introduce their kids to Christ—to see their kids come to faith—that would be central for all of them.  8:00 One of the things I read in your book is—you've seen statistics that said this is not a priority for a lot of believing parents. Barbara: Yes; we ran across this statistic and put it in our book. It's a George Barna stat; and he said, “Seven out of ten Christian parents today don't think salvation is an important outcome for their children.” Bob: Now that's astounding to me. Barbara: Oh, it was astounding to me when I read it, too; because that was my number one goal for my kids, because I want to be in heaven with my children someday. Bob: Right. Barbara: I want them to know Christ; because I know that, without Christ/without a relationship with Him, their life isn't going to work. Their relationships aren't going to work; their marriage's/their job won't work. None of it's going to work, because He is the One who holds everything together. So, if they want a marriage that's going to go the distance, they need Jesus, who holds everything together. If they want kids, who will grow up and be mature responsible adults, those children need Jesus, who holds all things together.  9:00 So I was shocked by that—I know Dennis was, too—but what we're saying in our book is what I just said. It is the most important thing that you can teach your children, because you can't teach them how to love without them knowing Christ. Bob: The problem is—we can teach them how to have a relationship with God, but this is not something we can make them do. This is on them to make that decision. This has got to come from inside of them; right? Dennis: A good friend of ours is Robert Lewis. I'll never forget—we were going through a dark set of days in our parenting journey; and he said: “Look, you can teach your kids to do what's right. You can teach them to love God; but it takes God to, ultimately, put it in their heart and then them to respond to Him and to love Him in return.”  Here's what I want parents to hear—  10:00 —your assignment is to teach, and demonstrate, and instruct—and teach, and teach, and teach how your child is to respond to the love of God. Your lifetime assignment is to teach them how they should love God in return. Barbara: And I totally agree with that, but it's more than just teaching. I think that's where—I think that's where a lot of parents make the mistake—they are heavy on the teaching and the instruction: “Here's how you invite Jesus into your heart…”; but they forget that they're modeling what that relationship looks like.  So, if you want your children to want to know God and you want your children to love God, then you have to show them a relationship with God that's attractive. I've heard people say, who grew up in Christian homes: “I never considered not wanting to become a Christian, because I watched my parents. Their relationship with God was so attractive, and convincing, and real that I wanted it for myself.”  11:00 The burden of proof, so to speak, is on mom and dad to demonstrate a relationship with Christ that is infectious, and contagious, and attractive so that your kids will want one too. Bob: Well, and the other side of that is—a lot of parents could harden the hearts of their children— Barbara: Yes; that's right. Bob: —by professing one thing—  Barbara: —but living another. Bob: And kids grow up with that kind of hypocrisy and that turns them away from wanting to have anything to do with Jesus. You know, a lot of adults today, who would say: “Here was my experience when I was a child. I prayed a prayer—I invited Jesus into my heart.” Dennis: “I walked the aisle.” Bob: Right; and then they say, “But when I became a teenager, I kind of fell away; and I ultimately had to find my way back.” Kids will often demonstrate some kind of spiritual interest when they're children. Barbara: Yes. Bob: I think, in part, because they know: “It would please Mom and Dad if I act this way,” or “…believe this way,” / “I want to be like Mom and Dad, so I want this to be true of me.”  12:00 How did you guys or how would you coach parents to help their kids along this journey, so that it's not just imitative behavior; but it's really something that God's doing in their heart? Barbara: Well, I think it's really important for parents not to be shocked. We talk about this in our book—don't be shocked when your kids question their faith, because all of us question our faith. If we don't, then maybe it's not genuine. We have to evaluate what we believe and decide if it's true or not. All kids are going to do that. I went through times of doubt; doubt is normal.  I think, when parents react when they see their kids doubting, that freaks out the kids; and it creates a dissonance in the relationship. I think the main thing to do is to allow your children to process—engage with them; talk with them; answer their questions. Give them positive feedback when they're asking questions, so that they don't feel like the fact that they're doubting is really wrong.  13:00 There's nothing wrong with doubting. Dennis: Barbara and I had a great vacation last summer. Sometime, during the vacation, we started noodling on this. We started talking and discussing what had become crystal clear to us; and that is, we wanted our children to see us experiencing God, not just on Sunday between the hours of 10:30 and noon; but we wanted our children to see us experiencing God seven days a week—and bringing Him into our discussion with them so they caught a picture: “This is exciting. This is not some hum drum everyday journey that's boring; but we're serving the God of the universe—experiencing Him. He's intersecting our lives.”  Certain things, Bob, become clear as you get older. I am seeing certain things more clearly than I have ever seen.  14:00 And that is this—as parents, you need to share your experience with God and His Word and what He's doing in your life—how He's convicting you of sin; how He's encouraged you to reach out to somebody you don't like; how He helped you defeat bitterness and forgive. Kids need to see their parents exemplifying the Christ-like life of Jesus living in and through us.  In fact, Barbara and I started talking about writing, not another book—but doing a Bible study that would be like Henry Blackaby's Bible study, Experiencing God—but put it this way: Experiencing God in Your Family. I think that's where we were first meant to experience God. I think the reason young people today are leaving the church, when they graduate from high school or college and they're not showing up again, is because they saw one thing on Sunday from their parents; and they didn't see much of anything of experiencing God the other six days of the week. 15:00 Bob: One of the key elements here is that your time in God's Word and your time together in prayer, as a family, be something that is real and regular in your home. I'm thinking of the movie, Like Arrows, that is connected to the Art of Parenting™. It's a movie that shows a family that was kind of nominal and marginal. They were going to church, but there wasn't really a life of faith being lived out in the home. They got confronted with that, later in life, and started to make a transition. It made a difference in the dynamic of the family.  This is something that parents need to prioritize: introducing our kids to the Bible, reading the Bible with them, praying with them—making this a part of the life and fabric of your family. I know, Barbara, a lot of moms and dads feel like failures in this area; because they've tried to do family devotions or whatever—it hasn't worked well. The kids roll their eyes— 16:00 Dennis: Well, they rolled their eyes at us; okay? [Laughter] Barbara: Oh absolutely. We felt like failures, too; because we had this image of family devotions, where everybody was sitting politely around the table and paying attention. Bob: Right. Barbara: Our kids didn't pay attention or, at least, they didn't seem to be paying attention. But as they got older, we would catch little things that they would say, where we knew: “Oh! They really—they picked that up when we did that family devotion; so they were paying attention.” Dennis: Remember the tape we played for one of our children— Barbara: Yes; for Laura; yes. Dennis: —about modesty?—right? Barbara: He brought it home, and he played it for Laura. She rolled her eyes; and she said, “Oh gosh, do I have to listen to this?” We said, “Yes; you have to listen to this,” and so she did. We didn't see anything for a while. After she graduated from high school, she had a job at a girls' school. Part of her job was to check the girls before they got on the bus in the morning before they had a day of service in the community. She called me one day and she said: “Mom, you are not going to believe these girls.  17:00 “I cannot believe what they are wearing to get on the bus in the morning to go off for their day of service. I sent some of them back to change clothes.” [Laughter] I just had this sense of vindication as I heard her say this; because I thought: “She got it. She got it!” [Laughter] Dennis: Yes. Bob: I want to point our listeners—on our website, at FamilyLifeToday.com, we've got an excerpt from an interview that we did a while back with Don Whitney, who wrote a book on the spiritual disciplines of the Christian life. He talked about having family devotions; he said he thought his kids weren't paying any attention. He was doing this—he felt like a failure in the whole thing—until his daughter's graduation from high school, when she got up and, in front of the whole high school, started crying about how faithful her parents were to read the Bible every day. He said, “I thought she was hating it; and yet, this was a part of what God was stamping on her heart and her life.”  You can hear him tell the story [on our website].  18:00 It's a powerful story and a great reminder that our faithfulness— Dennis: Right. Bob: —in just taking our kids to who God is: taking them to the Bible, spending time teaching them how to pray, praying with them, reading Bible stories, pointing them to Jesus—this is the chief assignment we have, as parents. If we fail at all kinds of other things and succeed here, that covers a multitude of sins; doesn't it? Barbara: It's not our responsibility. I think that's where parents get confused—I know I felt it. I felt like it was my responsibility to teach my kids and to make sure they had a relationship with Christ, but that's not it. My responsibility was to present the truth to them and to model a relationship; it's God's responsibility to call their hearts. I think that's where we get mixed up, as moms and dads—we own what is not ours instead of trusting God to do the work in their hearts. Bob: We talked, earlier, about the bridge that parents need to build toward their children so that there are these open lanes, where we can take unconditional love and where we can take pursuit and forgiveness.  19:00 God has built that bridge toward us; hasn't He? Dennis: He has; and because He first loved us, we love. We start building a lane back to God and a lane to others—that's what your assignment is.  One of the things we're talking about here—and I'm just thinking of Barbara, looking across the table at her—she has been the passionate one about this passage—is Deuteronomy 6: the command to parents to pass on their experience of God to the next generation. Barbara: Right; it talks about—uses these verbs, in Deuteronomy 6, to talk about God's Word when you walk, and when you sit, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. It means that in every part of your day, no matter what you are doing, you're supposed to be talking about God's Word—living it out/practicing it—so that your kids see that you belong to Him. They see what that looks like; and they can, therefore, imitate it. 20:00  Bob: This most important thing we've been talking about—introducing our kids to God—this is not something we can do unless our faith is real. We can't expect our kids to have a real active vibrant faith; and so the starting point for each of us, as parents, is to pull back and say: “What's my own relationship with God like? How central is God to everything that I'm doing in life? Is it clear to my kids this is what matters most to me?” If a parent, listening today, is unsure about their relationship with Jesus, what do they do? Dennis: Well, I think, first of all, they need to realize that God is love. He has reached out to them in love through the person of Jesus Christ. He became flesh—it's why we celebrate Christmas—He dwelt among us. He did what we could not do for ourselves—He lived a perfect life and, then, He sacrificed His life on a cross so that He might become the payment for our sins—  21:00 —that we might have God's forgiveness through Jesus Christ if—if we place our faith in Him.  If you've never done that—if you've never passed from death to life, if you're not spiritually born again, if you don't know where you'd spend eternity—why spend another day doubting or worrying about that? Why don't you settle it with God?—and cry out in faith and say this prayer: “Lord Jesus, I need You. I need a Savior. I need You to do for me what I cannot do for myself. I need You to forgive my sins. Now, come in my life. Live Your life in and through me; and give me eternal life that I might pass it on to my spouse, my children, my nieces, my nephews, my grandchildren.”  I want to tell you something—it is the greatest adventure of a lifetime to know the God of the universe.  22:00 He is up to big things in our little lives. Why would you not want to be a part of that?  Bob: We've got a link, on our website at FamilyLIfeToday.com, that explains how to know God. You can go to FamilyLifeToday.com and click on that link and find out more about what it means to be a Christian/to know God personally.  Again, our website is FamilyLifeToday.com. That's also where you'll find information about Dennis and Barbara Rainey's book for parents called The Art of Parenting. It's now available, along with the DVD series that's great for small group use. Find out more about these resources when you go to FamilyLifeToday.com—get a copy of the book; or call to order: 1-800-FL-TODAY is the number—1-800-358-6329—that's 1-800-“F” as in family, “L” as in life, and then the word, “TODAY.” 23:00 Speaking about The Art of Parenting, we created a movie in conjunction with The Art of Parenting that was in theaters a few months ago. That movie is not yet available for purchase on DVD; but during the month of December—for those of you who can help support the ministry, as you talked about earlier, Dennis—we're making the Like Arrows DVD available as a thank-you gift. Keep in mind your donation is going to be matched, dollar for dollar, this month up to a total of $2.5 million.  If God has used the ministry of FamilyLife® in your life this year, can we ask you to be generous and make a yearend contribution to help support the ministry? Your donation will be doubled, and we'll send you the Like Arrows DVD. Donate, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to donate.  Let me ask you one more thing. Pray for the hundreds of couples, who are going to be joining us this weekend at the St. Louis Weekend to Remember® marriage getaway. Pray that God would meet with them this weekend and would do a work in their marriage. That's our prayer every time when couples go to the Weekend to Remember— 24:00 —that they would leave the weekend with their marriage more strongly rooted in Christ than when they came.  We hope you have a great weekend. We hope you and your family are able to worship together in your local church this weekend and then join us back on Monday when we're going to pick up right where we left off today. We're going to talk about how we can know if our children really know Christ. Terrance Chapman is going to be with us to talk about that. We hope you can be back with us as well. Thanks to our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. Have a great weekend. We will see you Monday for another edition of FamilyLife Today.  FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru® Ministry. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.  We are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you've benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider donating today to help defray the costs?   Copyright © 2018 FamilyLife. All rights reserved. www.FamilyLife.com  

Link: https://bradbigney.wordpress.com/ Fasting Worksheets: https://bradbigney.wordpress.com/fasting-for-spiritual-breakthrough/ Resources: - Booklet by Bill Bright – “Seven Basic Steps to Fasting and Prayer” - Article by Don Whitney on “Fasting – The Misunderstood Discipline” - A Hunger for God – Desiring God through Fasting and Prayer by John Piper

This week on Preaching and Preachers, Dr. Don Whitney joins me in a discussion on the pastor and his prayer life. Dr. Whitney serves as Professor of Biblical Spirituality and Associate Dean at The post Episode 81: The Pastor and His Prayer Life appeared first on Preaching and Preachers Institute.

This week on Preaching and Preachers, Dr. Don Whitney joins me in a discussion on Family Worship. Dr. Whitney is the Professor of Biblical Spirituality at Southern Seminary and the founder The post “Thanksgiving Rerun Special” Episode 18: Family Worship appeared first on Preaching and Preachers Institute.

This week on Preaching and Preachers, Dr. Don Whitney joins me in a discussion on Family Worship. The post Episode #18: Family Worship appeared first on Preaching and Preachers Institute.

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