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Ethan (00:00):
Raising joyful children in an angry world, a podcast
dedicated to faithful parentsnavigating their families
through a stormy culture
Paul (00:08):
This week we are recording from the road apologies for the
sound quality I was reallystruck by a huge contrast over
the weekend.
On Friday, I was reading to akindergarten class, a really
sweet group of young children,and we walked through Oscar
Wilde's story, The SelfishGiant.
And then later in the weekend,Sunday, I read an article in the
(00:29):
Times about a world wherethere's this thing about being
deep faked.
It was a story about a younglady who had her image stolen by
a boyfriend from a previous yearand he used the woman's image to
do all sorts of horrible moviesand disgusting things that were
(00:50):
humiliating for her and he didit without her permission.
We've heard about this withcelebrities, but this was now
something that's happening.
I try to avoid boogeyman storieswhen I do these podcasts, but
it's really becoming clearerthat Christian kids are going to
need a rock solid structure totheir faith.
(01:11):
The world seems to be morphingback into this paganistic
morality, constantly puttingstress cracks in people's faith.
Our cultural Christianity, isnot going to be enough.
I love Tim McGraw's Always BeHumble and Kind, or maybe you
like Leanne Romack's version ofI Hope You'll Dance.
(01:33):
They're great songs.
But they're not sufficient toexplain our faith or be
understood apart from Christ.
James Marriott, the sameweekend, a writer from the
Times, warned.
He said, we can't build aworldview on vacuous moral self
congratulations.
I fear the current kind ofTwitterized creeds of
(01:53):
Christianity, coffee cupslogans, fall short of the
historic confessing faith.
Historic confessions are toooften dismissed in our
modernity, our zeal to reach thelost, that we fail to realize
these statements of faith, theApostles Creed, which is one
we're going to look at over thenext few weeks.
(02:15):
It's their blueprints, andthey're needed for our children
to live and benefit of life inthe kingdom of heaven.
They're the foundation, themechanics, the lens to see the
kingdom.
And I hope to present over thenext few weeks, uh, what the
greats of our faith taught inthe creeds, the commandments,
(02:36):
and the Lord's prayer.
Those are generally part of anycatechism hope to borrow from
Aquinas, Luther, Pascal, sir.
Briscoe recently wrote a reallygood book on the apostles creed
because we're going to have totry and teach our kids a little
bit more about theirChristianity.
We're going to have tostrengthen the apparatus that
(02:56):
helps them grasp what God isdoing in them.
Paul writes in Corinthians, youare in Christ who has become for
us wisdom from God, that is ourrighteousness, holiness, and
redemption.
Therefore, as it is written, lethim who boasts, boast in the
Lord.
(03:17):
But how do we grasp this wisdomand redemption and this
righteousness?
Well, it's not going to comefrom the world.
It's not going to be by learningsome good manners and how to be
civil in society.
We're going to need a framework,a structure on how to grasp what
our faith and our Bible teaches.
(03:37):
It's an apparatus that kind ofaligns our beliefs as the
potholes of the world as we'regoing down the road, try to
knock out our alignment andsteer us off of God's path.
They're going to help us do whatSpurgeon warned.
He said, we have to distinguishbetween What is almost right and
(03:58):
what is right?
I think the idea that we canhand a Bible stories to our
kids, and maybe later a Bible,and they will grab on to it,
conflicts with the historicalmethods of the church.
In fact, it's not really the waywe learn much of anything.
We need the basics.
We need the foundation of truthbefore we can grab on to the
(04:19):
more complex.
And in our faith, we need toknow the themes, the precepts,
the big picture, so that thestories of the Bible make sense
and actually strengthen what webelieve.
Stories and creeds, statementsof faith, they go hand in hand.
As the Lord in His grace opensthe eyes of the hearts of our
(04:40):
kids, as His Holy Spirittransforms them to new life, all
by His grace, our kids need tounderstand who is transforming
them, and what is true, andRegarding our Holy God, see the
world and the prince of thisworld is constantly trying to
confuse and rip off God's wordsThis year's NFC Champs the 49ers
(05:05):
banner says the faithful and theteam Calls its fans the
faithful.
It's almost like a liturgy Theleadership and the owners when
they won the NFC championshipsaid, Oh, we could not have done
it without our faithful Youtrusted us and the fans wave
their banners with these likesoccer scarfs that say faithful
(05:26):
on it It's the stuff that it'slike a religious experience to
these folks and this stuff sellsand In a faithless generation
that is desperate to trustsomething outside themselves.
And so you see this religiouslanguage in the liturgy of
sports and sports teams beingborrowed.
(05:47):
The world borrows from the faithbecause this is what the enemy
does to confuse and lead us towhat is almost.
Right.
That is why we need what wewould call a catechesis or a
catechism that is to teach andto prepare youth for the faith.
The catechisms of Augustine,Luther, all Protestant branches,
(06:09):
the Orthodox, Roman Catholic,all use the Apostles Creed, the
Lord's Prayer, and the TenCommandments.
I want to start over the nextfew weeks with the Apostles
Creed because I think it reallystarts with a very foundational.
The first words of the creed is,I believe in God, and then the
(06:30):
Father, the Almighty.
I want to begin with, I believein God, and what does that mean,
and how do our kids grasp it?
Dr.
Paulson, who I've talked about,who has a podcast called The
Outlaw God, who is also goingthrough the commandments and the
creed, speaks to, the creed issaying, you recognize that you
(06:54):
are not self generating.
You must come to knowledge andknow what God generates.
And so when we start with, Ibelieve in God, this is an
enormous concept and to say itis to say something profound.
And, and so why would we evenbelieve in God?
And so first kind of Aquinas andPascal, I think, help build the
(07:18):
rationale.
Pascal says at the simplest,when I see a beautiful watch, I
assume there's a watchmakerAquinas then goes into this, uh,
sort of historic view, this sortof philosophical view of cause
and effect.
And he basically says, you know,every effect has a cause.
And so we go through this causeand effect and you keep walking
it backwards.
(07:38):
And, in order for the cause andeffect is so at some point.
What you need for the all oflife to be in existence is you
must have an eternal God Who didnot require a cause because he
eternally always existed and Youeither do that or you just
believe the world randomlyproduced all that you see That's
(08:01):
why Paul talks about in Romansthat all of nature testifies to
God.
And these couple of conceptsabout, I believe in God, allow
us then to take this to ourchildren and to see things, a
couple of things.
I think we should learn tomemorize it.
I think we should have someconversations.
(08:21):
But we can walk in when ourchild has built a Lego car or a
spaceship, and we can point outPascal's argument.
Look at those pieces.
They didn't fly out of the boxand form a car.
So it is when we see things innature.
God made them for us.
I want my children to believe inGod because it makes sense to do
(08:42):
so.
And I want them to see that theyare not self generated beings
who create their own moralstandards and their own rules.
This is the philosophy of themodern world.
This is what Ian Rand taughtwhen she said your own happiness
is your own moral standard andyour own Rational capacity as
(09:05):
the only truth that you cantrust
There is a history ofphilosophers like Ian Rand.
We could look at MontanaRousseau and all sorts of voices
in our culture.
That speak to this truth, thatyour personal happiness is the
standard that in which youshould.
Pursue and that your virtue,your knowledge, your wisdom.
(09:29):
Is the only thing you can trustto get you there everything's
inside of you.
And yet this is the opposite ofwhat scripture teaches scripture
would say that philosophy willlead you to becoming a
self-serving person.
You'll use other people.
You'll become enslaved to yourown pleasure.
And it that's that sin slaverywill follow you everywhere you
go.
It's actually the path.
(09:50):
To destruction.
To believe in God is to say there's something greater
than ourselves a Wisdom that isbeyond us And that self
generated virtue or selfgenerated morals and wisdom is
the devil's lie.
I like confessing churches thatrecite the creed, or even
(10:11):
churches that confess a seriesof their statements of faith.
We need to recite beliefs.
To remind ourselves of what istrue, because the world is
constantly filling our headswith what is false.
We can teach this to ourchildren in so many simple ways.
A walk around the block, we seea home being built.
(10:31):
We assume there's a builder.
We then take that samerationale, and we look at
nature, and we point it tonature and say, God made that.
God created that.
And we'll walk into the creationstory a little deeper.
But for today, we need tounderstand.
That these creeds and theseconfessions are something that
(10:52):
we have to understand ourselves,and then we try and find the
ways, both at the table indiscussion and then in the
activities of life, that we passon what we believe to be true
and what God reveals to be trueabout Himself in the lives of
our kids.
The ultimate battle for theheart and soul is a fight for
(11:14):
identity.
Our king invites our kids toknow who they are, what to
believe, and where they belong.
Until next time, let's rememberthe words for theirs is the
Kingdom of Heaven.
Raising joyful children in an angry world, a podcast
dedicated to faithful parentsnavigating their families
through a stormy culture
Paul (00:08):
This week we are recording from the road apologies for the
sound quality I was reallystruck by a huge contrast over
the weekend.
On Friday, I was reading to akindergarten class, a really
sweet group of young children,and we walked through Oscar
Wilde's story, The SelfishGiant.
And then later in the weekend,Sunday, I read an article in the
(00:29):
Times about a world wherethere's this thing about being
deep faked.
It was a story about a younglady who had her image stolen by
a boyfriend from a previous yearand he used the woman's image to
do all sorts of horrible moviesand disgusting things that were
(00:50):
humiliating for her and he didit without her permission.
We've heard about this withcelebrities, but this was now
something that's happening.
I try to avoid boogeyman storieswhen I do these podcasts, but
it's really becoming clearerthat Christian kids are going to
need a rock solid structure totheir faith.
(01:11):
The world seems to be morphingback into this paganistic
morality, constantly puttingstress cracks in people's faith.
Our cultural Christianity, isnot going to be enough.
I love Tim McGraw's Always BeHumble and Kind, or maybe you
like Leanne Romack's version ofI Hope You'll Dance.
(01:33):
They're great songs.
But they're not sufficient toexplain our faith or be
understood apart from Christ.
James Marriott, the sameweekend, a writer from the
Times, warned.
He said, we can't build aworldview on vacuous moral self
congratulations.
I fear the current kind ofTwitterized creeds of
(01:53):
Christianity, coffee cupslogans, fall short of the
historic confessing faith.
Historic confessions are toooften dismissed in our
modernity, our zeal to reach thelost, that we fail to realize
these statements of faith, theApostles Creed, which is one
we're going to look at over thenext few weeks.
(02:15):
It's their blueprints, andthey're needed for our children
to live and benefit of life inthe kingdom of heaven.
They're the foundation, themechanics, the lens to see the
kingdom.
And I hope to present over thenext few weeks, uh, what the
greats of our faith taught inthe creeds, the commandments,
(02:36):
and the Lord's prayer.
Those are generally part of anycatechism hope to borrow from
Aquinas, Luther, Pascal, sir.
Briscoe recently wrote a reallygood book on the apostles creed
because we're going to have totry and teach our kids a little
bit more about theirChristianity.
We're going to have tostrengthen the apparatus that
(02:56):
helps them grasp what God isdoing in them.
Paul writes in Corinthians, youare in Christ who has become for
us wisdom from God, that is ourrighteousness, holiness, and
redemption.
Therefore, as it is written, lethim who boasts, boast in the
Lord.
(03:17):
But how do we grasp this wisdomand redemption and this
righteousness?
Well, it's not going to comefrom the world.
It's not going to be by learningsome good manners and how to be
civil in society.
We're going to need a framework,a structure on how to grasp what
our faith and our Bible teaches.
(03:37):
It's an apparatus that kind ofaligns our beliefs as the
potholes of the world as we'regoing down the road, try to
knock out our alignment andsteer us off of God's path.
They're going to help us do whatSpurgeon warned.
He said, we have to distinguishbetween What is almost right and
(03:58):
what is right?
I think the idea that we canhand a Bible stories to our
kids, and maybe later a Bible,and they will grab on to it,
conflicts with the historicalmethods of the church.
In fact, it's not really the waywe learn much of anything.
We need the basics.
We need the foundation of truthbefore we can grab on to the
(04:19):
more complex.
And in our faith, we need toknow the themes, the precepts,
the big picture, so that thestories of the Bible make sense
and actually strengthen what webelieve.
Stories and creeds, statementsof faith, they go hand in hand.
As the Lord in His grace opensthe eyes of the hearts of our
(04:40):
kids, as His Holy Spirittransforms them to new life, all
by His grace, our kids need tounderstand who is transforming
them, and what is true, andRegarding our Holy God, see the
world and the prince of thisworld is constantly trying to
confuse and rip off God's wordsThis year's NFC Champs the 49ers
(05:05):
banner says the faithful and theteam Calls its fans the
faithful.
It's almost like a liturgy Theleadership and the owners when
they won the NFC championshipsaid, Oh, we could not have done
it without our faithful Youtrusted us and the fans wave
their banners with these likesoccer scarfs that say faithful
(05:26):
on it It's the stuff that it'slike a religious experience to
these folks and this stuff sellsand In a faithless generation
that is desperate to trustsomething outside themselves.
And so you see this religiouslanguage in the liturgy of
sports and sports teams beingborrowed.
(05:47):
The world borrows from the faithbecause this is what the enemy
does to confuse and lead us towhat is almost.
Right.
That is why we need what wewould call a catechesis or a
catechism that is to teach andto prepare youth for the faith.
The catechisms of Augustine,Luther, all Protestant branches,
(06:09):
the Orthodox, Roman Catholic,all use the Apostles Creed, the
Lord's Prayer, and the TenCommandments.
I want to start over the nextfew weeks with the Apostles
Creed because I think it reallystarts with a very foundational.
The first words of the creed is,I believe in God, and then the
(06:30):
Father, the Almighty.
I want to begin with, I believein God, and what does that mean,
and how do our kids grasp it?
Dr.
Paulson, who I've talked about,who has a podcast called The
Outlaw God, who is also goingthrough the commandments and the
creed, speaks to, the creed issaying, you recognize that you
(06:54):
are not self generating.
You must come to knowledge andknow what God generates.
And so when we start with, Ibelieve in God, this is an
enormous concept and to say itis to say something profound.
And, and so why would we evenbelieve in God?
And so first kind of Aquinas andPascal, I think, help build the
(07:18):
rationale.
Pascal says at the simplest,when I see a beautiful watch, I
assume there's a watchmakerAquinas then goes into this, uh,
sort of historic view, this sortof philosophical view of cause
and effect.
And he basically says, you know,every effect has a cause.
And so we go through this causeand effect and you keep walking
it backwards.
(07:38):
And, in order for the cause andeffect is so at some point.
What you need for the all oflife to be in existence is you
must have an eternal God Who didnot require a cause because he
eternally always existed and Youeither do that or you just
believe the world randomlyproduced all that you see That's
(08:01):
why Paul talks about in Romansthat all of nature testifies to
God.
And these couple of conceptsabout, I believe in God, allow
us then to take this to ourchildren and to see things, a
couple of things.
I think we should learn tomemorize it.
I think we should have someconversations.
(08:21):
But we can walk in when ourchild has built a Lego car or a
spaceship, and we can point outPascal's argument.
Look at those pieces.
They didn't fly out of the boxand form a car.
So it is when we see things innature.
God made them for us.
I want my children to believe inGod because it makes sense to do
(08:42):
so.
And I want them to see that theyare not self generated beings
who create their own moralstandards and their own rules.
This is the philosophy of themodern world.
This is what Ian Rand taughtwhen she said your own happiness
is your own moral standard andyour own Rational capacity as
(09:05):
the only truth that you cantrust
There is a history ofphilosophers like Ian Rand.
We could look at MontanaRousseau and all sorts of voices
in our culture.
That speak to this truth, thatyour personal happiness is the
standard that in which youshould.
Pursue and that your virtue,your knowledge, your wisdom.
(09:29):
Is the only thing you can trustto get you there everything's
inside of you.
And yet this is the opposite ofwhat scripture teaches scripture
would say that philosophy willlead you to becoming a
self-serving person.
You'll use other people.
You'll become enslaved to yourown pleasure.
And it that's that sin slaverywill follow you everywhere you
go.
It's actually the path.
(09:50):
To destruction.
To believe in God is to say there's something greater
than ourselves a Wisdom that isbeyond us And that self
generated virtue or selfgenerated morals and wisdom is
the devil's lie.
I like confessing churches thatrecite the creed, or even
(10:11):
churches that confess a seriesof their statements of faith.
We need to recite beliefs.
To remind ourselves of what istrue, because the world is
constantly filling our headswith what is false.
We can teach this to ourchildren in so many simple ways.
A walk around the block, we seea home being built.
(10:31):
We assume there's a builder.
We then take that samerationale, and we look at
nature, and we point it tonature and say, God made that.
God created that.
And we'll walk into the creationstory a little deeper.
But for today, we need tounderstand.
That these creeds and theseconfessions are something that
(10:52):
we have to understand ourselves,and then we try and find the
ways, both at the table indiscussion and then in the
activities of life, that we passon what we believe to be true
and what God reveals to be trueabout Himself in the lives of
our kids.
The ultimate battle for theheart and soul is a fight for
(11:14):
identity.
Our king invites our kids toknow who they are, what to
believe, and where they belong.
Until next time, let's rememberthe words for theirs is the
Kingdom of Heaven.
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