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    Becoming A Godly Husband And Father
    Becoming A Godly Husband And Father
    Becoming A Godly Husband And Father
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    Becoming A Godly Husband And Father

    By Jon Vandermark

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    Learn how to love your wife and raise your children the Lord's way. Raise mighty men and women for the kingdom.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon Vandermark
    Release dateNov 25, 2015
    ISBN9781310588778
    Becoming A Godly Husband And Father
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    Jon Vandermark

    I attend Two Rivers Church in Binghamton, NY and am very proud to be part of an amazing, spirit filled church! I am donating a lot of the proceeds from these books to our ONE campaign, in which we are trying to raise money for a new building!

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      Becoming A Godly Husband And Father - Jon Vandermark

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      Love. 1) Loving God increasingly w/ all my heart, soul, mind and strength; loving Christ and the cross; loving the gospel — these are the foundation for all else. Drawing from God all I need to be the man and husband God has called me to be is my strength and hope. 2) Loving my wife as Christ loves the Church — this is the umbrella principle for marriage; everything else flows from this responsibility and privilege (Eph 5:25).

      Leadership. Biblical manhood involves cultivating, embracing, and exercising leadership initiative, especially spiritual leadership initiative. This is a principle that applies to young men and adult single men just as well as to married men. Cultivate, embrace, and exercise spiritual leadership initiative. In marriage, my love for my wife involves and requires that I exert leadership in our relationship. My headship of my wife means I’m responsible for her spiritual growth and well-being. And as a father, I’m responsible in ways that my wife is not for the spiritual development of our children (Eph 6:1-4). And again, to do this, I must be seeking God and growing personally. Only out of the storehouse of my own soul’s growth in God can I assist my wife to grow spiritually.

      Example. Lead by example as much as by admonition and instruction. Set the example in: consistent times in the Word and prayer; in sacrificial service for your wife, children, church family members, and community needs; in giving faithfully, generously, and regularly of your finances; in humble admission of wrong-doing along with confession, asking forgiveness, and repentance. Fight pride, fight defensiveness, fight carnality before others.

      Authority. All three points above imply and invoke the concept of male-headship. Yes, God has given special authority to husbands and fathers. Learn, though, the correct expression of healthy, constructive, upbuilding, God-honoring, Christ-following authority. Resist and reject the sinful extremes of 1) harshness, bossiness, mean-spirited authoritarianism, and of 2) laziness, apathy, lethargy, negligence, and abdication of authority to the women in our lives. Learn to blend firmness with gentleness, truth with grace, a firm hand

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