{"id":45731,"date":"2022-10-01T01:59:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/our-children-are-our-legacy-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:59:57","slug":"our-children-are-our-legacy-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/our-children-are-our-legacy-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Children Are Our Legacy &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American humorist, newspaper columnist, and bestselling author Erma Bombeck, had a writing career that spanned three decades. From the mid-1960&#8217;s through the mid-1990&#8217;s, she wrote several books and received fifteen honorary doctorate degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Three years before she died of complications following a kidney transplant, she told an ABC-TV interviewer that no matter how many columns she had written, her legacy would be her three children. &#8220;If I did a bad job with them&#8221; she said, &#8220;then everything else [I] do isn&#8217;t very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her brief life spanning 69 years (1927-1996), Ms. Bombeck acquired riches, fame, and the goodwill of millions of readers, but she realized that <strong>her top priority was taking care of her children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While no parent can be guaranteed that his or her child will turn out to be a godly model citizen, those of us who are parents must start with Erma&#8217;s attitude. Our motivation is to provide spiritually, physically, and emotionally for our children  for our children will be <strong>our legacy<\/strong> (cf. Genesis 18:17-19; Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 22:18; Acts 3:25; Gal. 3:8).<\/p>\n<p>This means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teaching them <strong>by example<\/strong>, the importance of studying God&#8217;s word (2 Timothy 1:2-5; 2 Timothy 2:15).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing spiritual guidance (Deuteronomy 6:1-9; Deuteronomy 11:18-21; Psalm 34:11-14; Psalm 78:1-8; Ephesians 6:4).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Praying for them (2 Timothy 1:1-3; cf. 1 Timothy 1:2).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Encouraging them to find mentors who can guide them in godly living (Philippians 3:17; Philippians 4:9; 2 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 1:13; 2 Timothy 3:14-15).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s no question that raising children is a challenge, but it&#8217;s also a battle  a battle that <strong>must<\/strong> be won. Often it&#8217;s expensive in time and energy. But the value of a child and the future of our country overshadows it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American humorist, newspaper columnist, and bestselling author Erma Bombeck, had a writing career that spanned three decades. From the mid-1960&#8217;s through the mid-1990&#8217;s, she wrote several books and received fifteen honorary doctorate degrees. Three years before she died of complications following a kidney transplant, she told an ABC-TV interviewer that no matter how many columns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/our-children-are-our-legacy-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Children Are Our Legacy &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}