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I recently stumbled upon a great blog post, Common Parent Traps by John MacArthur. In short the traps are Focusing on Behavior, Focusing on Environment, and Focusing on Self-Esteem. Instead of focusing all of your parenting efforts on these issues, we ought to Focus on the Heart, emphasizing our children's need for Jesus and his gospel of grace.

 
 
This Sunday's sermon text has to do with a poor widow. And there are a number of widows who are members at Black Springs.  On the other hand, I am relatively young and fully involved in marital life (6 years now with 4 children). So, even though I highly value the widows and seniors of our church, honestly sometimes it is hard for me to think in their terms. I thanked the Lord for this video when I found it because it helped me think of ways that the gospel can apply to this group of people.

Here is the blog where the video came from. It's worth a read as well.