A Father’s Gift

Lessons from Proverbs

Author

Kenneth Wingate

Category Christian Living, Marriage & Family

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Weight	0.66 lbs
Dimensions	8.5 × 5.4 × 0.6 in
ISBN	9781848710504
Binding	Paperback, eBook (ePub & Kindle), Paperback & eBook (ePub & Kindle)
Topic	Salvation, Spiritual Growth, Sanctification
Original Pub Date	2009
Banner Pub Date	Oct 1, 2009
Page Count	216
Scripture	Proverbs
Format	Book

Book Description

In his book, A Father’s Gift, Ken Wingate shows why 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 and 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?

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	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