| | (Godly Home) Part 2 - The Foundation of a Godly Home by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Matthew 7:24-28 | | Description: Brother Denny shares how this could be the most important message of the whole series. Many people want to have a godly home but are getting the 'cart before the horse' if Christ is not all in all.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 1 - The Holy Art of Training Children by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Malachi 2:14 | | Description: The Holy Art of Training Children commences on lifting the principles of childraising out of the commonplace and making them holy again. Denny Kenaston challenges fathers to repent of unscriptural focuses and embrace the 'beautiful realities of the Word of God.' Raising children is an art, 'a system of principles and methods employed in the creation of making something beautiful.' Are you ready to be a student of training children?
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| | (Godly Home) Part 3 - The Eternal Value of a Child by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Psalm 127:3-5, Psalm 139:13-18 | | Description: This is the first of six sessions on the visionary aspect of childrearing. Kenaston preaches his heart out to impart the value a child has in eternity. We can see what priority our children have by the time we give them. Do we realize we are raising sons and daughters for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords? If so, it will change our whole life's ambition in the way we bring them up.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 4 - A Vision that Motivates by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Proverbs 29:18, Numbers 14:24, Psalm 78:1-7 | | Description: Part 2 of the visionary aspect of childraising stresses how essential having a vision is, for without a vision, the people perish. 'A vision is a mental image imprinted upon the heart by the Spirit of God.' Kenaston shows God's purpose to train up many generation families to win a lost and dying world, showing several examples from the Bible. If God did it for them, He can do it for you!
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| | (Godly Home) Part 5 - A Godly Heritage Today by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Proverbs 17:6; Psalm 103:17-18 | | Description: Kenaston passionately speaks of several recent examples of many generation families who have done great exploits for the kingdom of God. He sites William and Catherine Booth's eight children and 45 children on fire for God as one such role model, as well as Hudson Taylor's and Jonathan Edwards'. He closes by sharing how greatly influenced he was by a Canadian family 22 years prior whose family life and influence in the community burned a new vision in his heart and altered his course forever.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 6 - Bible Pictures of Promise by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Psalm 144, Psalm 128:3-4 | | Description: Kenaston draws much food for thought out of three powerful visions from the Psalms as to what children for God are supposed to be like. For instance, children are likened to the olive tree, which is one of the most valuable possessions and when well tended to produces its precious oil for many generations to come. Kenaston encourages parents that "God [is] putting His hand upon my hand raising my children through me."
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| | (Godly Home) Part 7 - More Pictures of Promise by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Psalm 127:3-5, Isaiah 58 | | Description: Kenaston debunks the purposeless attitude, "I think my children will turn out alright," by demonstrating the biblical truth that strong foundations of a Christian life are needed to produce many generations of righteous offspring. Childraising is to be as purposeful as the Israelite warrior who meticulously prepared his arrows to destroy the enemy. "What is success," brother Denny asks, "a big pile of money or a bunch of arrows in your quiver ready to go?"
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| | (Godly Home) Part 8 - Wholehearted Households by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Joshua 24:15, 1 Corinthians 16:15 | | Description: Brother Denny shares the last of six sessions of the visionary aspect of childrearing of how whole-hearted households affect the next generation. He goes into detail of what an ordered Jewish home like one Jesus or John the Baptist was raised in to raise the bar of our own expectations. "A man's family," Kenaston says, "is the greatest revelation of who he is. Are we too busy to raise godly children that will "hit the mark" someday?
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| | (Godly Home) Part 9 - The Key to Obedience is Blessings by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): 1 John 4:19; Malachi 4:6 | | Description: This teaching has "the most profound wisdom" in all child training--love. Brother Denny uncovers the fallacy that spanking solves all the woes in the family when a close, loving, flowing relationship between parent and child is missing. Our modern society is all about the quick fix, but there is no substitute for time when it comes to developing a genuine foundation of love in the godly home.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 10 - The Hearts of the Fathers Must Turn by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Malachi 4:5-6 | | Description: Denny Kenaston analyzes in detail what the Word of God has to say about the absolute necessity of a father's heart turned towards his children. The heaviest load falls upon the fathers to represent God to the children, and without that flow of the turned heart in love, time, discipline and teaching, the inevitable result is the curse of disobedience which plagues so much of American society today.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 11 - The Rod is Love by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Proverbs 13:24, Hebrews 12:5-13 | | Description: Denny Kenaston shares the biblical perspective of disciplining children by use of the rod. "Spanking is not a negative form of discipline," he says, but is a beautiful expression of love, for whosoever the Lord loves He chastens. Kenaston takes great care to explain why the Bible teaches the need for spanking to properly raise up godly children.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 12 - A Sacred Exercise by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Hebrews 12:11 | | Description: Denny Kenaston presents a very practical and balanced view of discipline, pointing out that parents ought to take serious heed not to spank in anger, for chastisement "is not judgment meted out for doing wrong; it is correction for wrong with the hope of future good." Brother Denny labors through his practical example of disciplining his own children to pattern it as closely as possible to the way the heavenly Father disciplines us.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 13 - The Training of the Will by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Proverbs 23:13-14 | | Description: Training a child's will, says brother Denny, "is the foundation for a prosperous, spiritual life." Teaching the children to cheerfully and willingly obey the parents will allow them to more quickly and easily yield to God whenever He comes to ask for surrender. Several practical exercises are given to help parents begin training sessions at a very early age. "Little lessons transfer into big obediences someday."
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| | (Godly Home) Part 14 - The Bondage of Foolishness by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Proverbs 22:15 | | Description: Denny Kenaston provided a "gold mine of discernment" about what the Bible says foolishness really is, how to identify it and correct it in a child. He offers sound, practical wisdom of dealing with the real problem that will prevent much poor character in the latter years. "Terrible twos" should not be in the vocabulary of Christian parents, and following God's wisdom clears the child's conscience and provides rest and delight in the home.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 15 - Father - the Anointed Teacher by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Deuteronomy 6:4-7 | | Description: Brother Denny exhorts fathers in their God-appointed role to "live on the edge of the impossible" by trusting God to work through them. He shares on six holy qualities a father must have to effectively teach his children. Kenaston strongly advocates making family devotions a top priority and shares from personal experience how the Lord has wrought godliness in his home through adopting that.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 16 - Train Up a Child by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Proverbs 22:6, Ephesians 6:4 | | Description: Brother Denny illustrates how training and nurturing are "a beautiful blend of teaching, discipline, love and the actual guiding of a life in a right path." Do you want your child to be a soul winner or prayer warrior? What do you want to teach them? He gives several practical ways of going about the training process in a purposeful, God-centered way.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 17 - A Quiet, Ordered Life by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Psalm 23, Isaiah 32:17-18 | | Description: Brother Denny continues along the guiding, training aspects of raising children by showing how God is primarily a leader not a corrector. He teaches how your home can become a "haven of rest and refreshment" by taking proactive leadership with your children in the good and right way. Four ways of establishing calm, quiet authority are addressed along with four categories of parenting, good and bad.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 18 - Three Mysterious Influences in the Home by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Isaiah 43:3-5, Psalm 112:1-2, Lamentations 2:19 | | Description: Brother Denny highlights three supernatural influences in our homes that are beyond power to explain or understand: 1) the powerful atmosphere of the Spirit of God, 2) the power of an enthusiastic example, and 3) prevailing intercessory prayer.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 19 - Children - a Dwelling Place for the Living God by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): 2 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Thessalonians 5:23 | | Description: Have you ever wondered how child training in spiritual disciplines (i.e., prayer, Bible reading, fasting, and so on) works when the child is not yet born again? Brother Denny shares how parents who diligently apply themselves in training the body and soul of their children do them such a favor and give them a headstart when the Spirit of God does come to indwell them.
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| | (Godly Home) Part 20 - Father is a Watchman by Denny Kenaston
Topic: Godly Home Series
Scripture(s): Nehemiah 1:3-4, Psalm 101:2-4 | | Description: "The father is the Nehemiah of the house", brother Denny cautions, the one to raise up the wall of biblical standards to protect the family and the gatekeeper to watch for subtle influences that gradual erode the spiritual life of it. Kenaston blows a bold trumpet of alarm against many harmful and destructive influences of our day, such as television, movies, toys, computer games, books, Internet, Christian "rock" music, and children's videos.
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