Mar 04 2025 33 mins
Shanda has been reading a couple books by Donald Whitney that give practical ideas for deepening your prayer life and help you give your children vision for the future God has for them. Our purpose here on earth is to become more Christ-like, and these few tips can help us look more like Christ.
Here is what you can expect in this episode:
0:50 – God gives your kids gifts and passions
4:10 – Praying the Bible Book
6:11 – Does prayer feel boring to you?
9:10 – One solution to a boring prayer life!
14:05 – Does it work? I tried this!
18:30 – Spiritual Disciplines for a Christian Life Book
20:28 – Discipline without vision is drudgery
22:40 – Do you SEE what I’m saying?
28:37 – Practical ways to “cast vision” for your children
Links:
Brick Science YouTube Channel (Lego)
Keeping It Young Podcast
Books:
Praying the Bible
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
Scripture:
Psalm 23:1-2 - The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Proverbs 29:18 - Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Quote:
“But Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that ‘freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.’”
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