A Father’s Gift
Lessons from Proverbs
| Weight | 0.30 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 21.5 × 13.6 × 1.5 cm |
| ISBN | 9781848710504 |
| Binding | Paperback, eBook (ePub & Mobi), Paperback & eBook (ePub & Mobi) |
| Format | Book |
| Original Pub Date | 2009 |
| Banner Pub Date | Oct 1, 2009 |
| Topic | Salvation, Spiritual Growth, Sanctification |
| Page Count | 216 |
| Scripture | Proverbs |
Book Description
Many young parents today are beside themselves with anxieties about their children, and, sadly, confusion too about how to nurture them. The ongoing addiction of our times to the heresy of modernity and its proud rejection- and ignorance- of the tested and tried wisdom of the past, inevitably leads to dysfunction in home and family life. Sadly, the older, wiser counsel of God’s Word, and especially of the book of Proverbs, is unknown or neglected. Yet Proverbs was composed specifically as a manual for home a family instruction, and to prepare us for life in the world. It is a divinely given handbook to help parents.
Proverbs, and Ken Wingate following it, shows us the way to possess the jewel of all jewels in a well-adorned life: wisdom that is rooted in the knowledge of, and reverential love for, God. Here is true wisdom that will prove to be worth its weight in gold in every age and culture. Ken Wingate now brings it into our needy culture, and I for one am grateful to him for sharing his gift as a father with other fathers, and mothers, and sons and daughters too.
Here then is a book for parents to read on their own; for teenagers to read on their own; for parents and teenagers, who are willing to take the family challenge, to read round the table after dinner or on other occasions. It points us to God’s way. It promises us God’s grace. What could be better for us than that?
Table of Contents Expand ↓
| Foreword by Sinclair B Ferguson | ix | |
| Author’s Preface | xiii | |
| 1 | Abundant Life: Introduction to Proverbs | 1 |
| 2 | Wealth | 11 |
| 3 | Friends and Neighbours | 33 |
| 4 | Words | 47 |
| 5 | Sexual Purity | 59 |
| 6 | Work | 73 |
| 7 | Self-Control | 85 |
| 8 | Guidance | 97 |
| 9 | Pride | 103 |
| 10 | Health | 111 |
| 11 | Kindness and Mercy | 117 |
| 12 | Justice and Equity | 123 |
| 13 | Authority and Leadership | 131 |
| 14 | Husband and Father | 141 |
| 15 | Wife and Mother | 155 |
| 16 | Wickedness and Evil | 165 |
| 17 | The Future | 173 |
| 18 | The Lord | 181 |
| 19 | The End of the Path | 191 |
| Appendix | 193 | |
| Appendix | 197 |
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