Shepherding a Child's Heart Conference

Biblical Parenting
Presents:Tedd Tripp
Author of 'Shepherding a Child's Heart'
September 19th – 20th, 2008
Friday 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Saturday 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM

This event will be held at five Mars Hill Campuses simultaneously.

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Ballard (live)
Bellevue
Shoreline
Lake City
West Seattle

Everyone wants to be a great parent—the biggest responsibility of parenthood is teaching your children to love Jesus with all of their heart, soul, and strength. For parents with children of any age, Dr. Tripp's insightful, biblical teaching provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child's heart into the paths of life.

"Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."
Deuteronomy 6:5-9

About Dr. Tripp

In writing Shepherding A Child's Heart, Dr. Tripp drew on his 30+ years of experience as a pastor, counselor, school administrator, and father. He now also includes 10 years of insights from teaching this material in his conferences offered around the world. In addition to speaking at conferences, Dr. Tripp is the pastor of Grace Fellowship Church in Hazleton, PA.
The things your child does and says flow from the heart, and Dr. Tripp's Shepherding A Child's Heart conference is about how to speak to and engage with the heart of children.

"God is concerned with the heart - the well-spring of life"
Proverbs 4:23

"Parents tend to focus on the externals of behavior rather than the internal overflow of the heart. We tend to worry more about the "what" of behavior than the "why." Accordingly, most of us spend an enormous amount of energy in controlling and constraining behavior. To the degree and extent to which our focus is on behavior, we miss the heart."
Tedd Tripp, Senior Pastor
Grace Fellowship Church, Hazelton, PA

The content will be identical at all campuses, with Pastor Ted Tripp teaching the following five sessions.

Friday Evening

6:30 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. Registration

7:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. The Call to Formative Instruction- Deuteronomy 6
Formative instruction provides children with biblical ways of thinking. It is the process of instruction that enables our children to root all of life in God's revelation in the Bible. Formative instruction is not focused on correcting something that has gone wrong; it focus is providing ways of interpreting and responding to life that are biblical.

8:00 p.m.- 8:15 p.m. Break

8:15 p.m.- 9:15 p.m.Giving Children a Vision for the Glory of God - Psalm 145
Children are instinctively worshipers. They are made in the image of God and are hard-wired for worship. They love to be awed. They delight in marveling at things. They will either worship God the Creator or created things. We will identify some common idols of the heart as well as our calling as parents is to hold the glory and goodness of God before our children.

Saturday

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Giving Children an Understanding of Authority - Ephesians 6
Our culture thinks of authority as derived from overwhelming force or consent. We have no idea that it is good and proper for some to be in authority and for others to be under authority. Parents often, unwittingly make their children independent decision makers. When we do, we give them an appetite for a liberty that does not exist and a mistaken notion about freedom. True freedom is living joyfully under the authorities that God has ordained.

10:10 a.m.- 11:10 a.m. Giving Children an Understanding of the Heart- Proverbs 4:23
Proverbs 4 says "the heart is the well-spring of life." Luke 6 says that it is "out of the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks." If behavior flows from the heart, then we cannot think about behavior biblically without reference to the heart. This teaching will equip us to help our children see how behavior that has strayed reflects a heart that has strayed.

11:20 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Overview of Corrective Discipline: Spanking, Sowing & Reaping, and Communication
The Proverbs makes a clear case for spanking, especially as we deal with small children. This teaching will provide clear guideline for physical discipline that is gracious and kind. The second part of this session will explore the sowing and reaping principle of the Bible and root our administration of consequences for our children in rich biblical soil. Additionally, we will examine some of the biblical principles that can guide our communication. The seminar will end with the reminder that the grace and strength, insight and wisdom for this work is found in Christ.