Ryan Kelly Parenting Sermons

I ran across three very helpful messages on Christian parenting, preached by Ryan Kelly, pastor of Desert Springs Church. They were part of a larger series he is doing on the book of Proverbs.

I especially appreciated the first message, "The Wisdom of Parenting with Toughness." This was the first time I heard someone explain how, as parents, we should model God's righteous anger before our children. There is a lot of other material that, for good reason, warns against becoming sinfully angry with our children. Our anger tends to be sinful, and much harm is done to children when parents are sinfully angry toward them. We do need to show an enormous amount of love to our children, and we all are deficient in this. But there is still a need for righteous anger. There is more to the sermon than this. But this is the part that really stood out to me.

You can download the message here http://www.desertspringschurch.org/content_page.php?selectedCat=8&catName=Messages&subID=

The other messages are "The Wisdom of Parenting with Instruction" and "The Wisdom of Parenting Toward the Gospel." They can also be downloaded from the same page.