Sentences with phrase «better fathers to their children»

Second, Michael Kampff is offering a free eBook on how men can be better fathers to their children.

While she does care that one of your core life values is you want to be a good father to your children, it is no longer one of her top three character attributes.

I have been a good father to my children that do not live with me.I have a small pet dog about 15 years old.

A good father to our children, Tamia and Kevin.

Mark, I truly enjoy how you communicate with us like a good father to his children.

I guess the only thing left for me to do is going on and trying to be the best father to our children that I possibly can and keep trying to show her that I am changing.

Myth — Just because a father has had an abusive relationship with his wife doesn't mean that his behavior is harmful to the children or that he isn't a good father to his children.

The primary reason that fathers cited for participating in the program was to become better fathers to their children.

Not exact matches

Over on Task and Purpose (a site for members of the U.S. military) and Fatherly (a site for — well, fathers), a former U.S. Navy SEAL named Eric Greitens (now a candidate for Missouri governor, by the way) shared his tips for raising children to be more resilient — rules that also apply to anyone who wants to increase their mental toughness.

Consciously or unconsciously, the movement also validates an insight which sociologists confirm: The best predictor of whether a child will remain religious as an adult is not the religiosity of the mother — for children tend to take that for granted — but of the father, because he is not expected to be religious.

We should learn from those who are dying that the best way to teach our children about God is by loving each other wholly and forgiving each other fully - just as each of us longs to be loved and forgiven by our mothers and fathers, sons and daughters.

In sum, although a few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.

11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

This week Biles danced to Chris Tomlin's «Good Good Father,» which she explained was partially a tribute to her biological grandfather who adopted her after she was placed in the foster care system as a child.

Tiggy... just because you didn't have a good father figure, doesn't mean there aren't scores of men who are wonder fathers and who are totally commited to their children.

The sad picture of parental disengagement from children applies to contemporary fathers as well.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

Several students began to weep, but another, a small girl, made her way to the front and in her child like way wrote what words of FAITH in a loving GOD believes to be the only answer, «Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.»

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

No evidence that the innovation was in the interest of children was made available but rather it was assumed that same - sex couples had to be as good as a mother and father since the equivalence had already been established in previous legislation.

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

After giving us his illustration of prayer, Jesus concludes his general advice to persevere in prayer with this promise (cited above in part): «If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!»

The Father wanting the best for us as his children, set up a plan for us to obtain true happiness that we can have if we choose to follow his plan.

I didn't pray for leukemia but I got it children die everyday new souls in this sometimes very cruel world what kind of god does that I'm sure you'll say the sins of the father or it just wasn't gods plan or if we were better Christians then we wouldn't be punished or our faith was being tested and to all of you I say what a cruel child of a god you have that» tests his flock he so lovingly created excuse after excuse I'll keep my faith in the science that put my cancer in remission and if I'm wrong I'll march straight into hell knowing I made no excuses

She was to depend for her reputation, and maybe for her life, on the good will of an untested male who knew that he was not the father of the child.

But, my listener, would you dare, as a father (and I feel confident that you have a lofty conception of the meaning of this name, a responsible conception of the charge which it lays upon you) would you dare, as a father, to say to your child as you sent him out into the world, «Go, with your mind at ease, my child, pay attention to what the many approve and what the world rewards, for that is the Good, but what the world punishes, that is evil.

Just as a Father rebukes His children... God will rebuke us... so it is ridiculous to say the same God that loves me will destroy me... that can't be further from the Truth... Jesus died for us that we may have everlasting life... but rebellion will not be tolerated forever... so we destroy ourselves not God... He continues to give us chances to turn towards Him and when we don't we want to blame Him... well blame yourself..

It is interesting to note in this respect that in Whitehead's judgment the Jews «conceived one of the most immoral Gods ever imagined» and that he endorses Thomas Hardy's remark in Tess of the D'Urbervilles «But although to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned by average human nature.

Was the question this: is it better for children to have a mother at home rather than a father at home, generally speaking, not a hard and fast rule?

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.»

And redefining marriage to include gay and lesbian couples will undermine a basic rule for children's well - being: «a mother and a father for every child.»

Whatever legal and public policy solutions are reached in the coming years, Christians need to find a social, political and religious way to secure the well - being of women and children, involve fathers in the lives of their children, and support gays and lesbians who want to establish committed relationships and receive the benefits and blessings that go with this commitment.

Well, believe it or not, mankind is building up father Yahweh's children, to make children for himself.

Work at gradually releasing the children into their own orbits by continuing to strengthen intimacy through a variety of experiences as man and wife as well as mother and father.

«If you then, who are evil,» Jesus said (Mt 7:11; cf. Lk 11:13), «know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him.»

Deuteronomy 17:5, Deuteronomy 17:12... Here's some good killing children stuff too... «All who curse their father or mother must be put to death.

«If you, bad as you are, know how to give your children what is good for them, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him!»

He is no better than a mother that sits back and allows her children to be diddled by their father because she doesn't want to rock the boat.

Luke 11:13 (NIV): «If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!&raquto give good gifts to your children, how much more will YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!&raquto your children, how much more will YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!&raquTO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!»

Please rescue me and my children we want a better life full of drug addiction, selfishness, alcoholic fathers, crime, and to learn the true art of religious bigotry.

If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask Him.

Would you allow him to Choose whether he would want to get close to a baby knowing it was conceived within an affair, and that the biological father and his parents may wish to also be part of the childs life and he'd have to accommodate them as well?

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!»

But I wonder if he, as man and father, really could do anything better for wife and children than to impress upon them this trust in Providence.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

We may end our article where we began it, by quoting from the Novena of Cardinal Newman: Philip, my holy Patron, who wast so careful for the souls of thy brethren, and especially of thy own people, when on earth, slack not thy care of them now, when thou art in heaven... Be to us a good father; make our priests blameless and beyond reproach or scandal; make our children obedient, our youth prudent and chaste, our heads of families wise and gentle, our old people cheerful and fervent, and build us up, by thy powerful intercession, in faith, hope, charity and all virtues».

First of all it should be noted that one should never harm the consciences of children in going against Church teaching merely to obey the law: «Our fathers chained in prisons dark were still in heart and conscience free» and better to be thus than to be applauded by the Local Authority advisers and teach what is wrong.

I am convinced that if such programmes are augmented by the vision presented by the Theology of the Body such as that put forward in «Called to Love» by Carl Anderson and Father Jose Granados, then Catholic children will not only be better able to resist the false attractions of the Culture of Death and the nihilistic philosophies of modern youth culture, they will also go on to live more complete and happier lives.

A parent (so often the mother — but the father has his important role too) who has got to know his / her child is often best placed to judge the appropriate moment to discuss particular issues with that child.

6: 5 - 6) It constitutes no claim of the petitioner; it invokes the goodness of God, which can be trusted, for even an earthly father gives good things to his children who ask him — how much more would God do so!