Archive for August 2020
Investments!
Investment is “oriented toward future returns, and thus entails some degree of risk.” This word in most uses is always considered in the context of money or finances; however, it’s meaning covers much more than tangible goods. Note the “goal of future returns and degree of risk” that is referenced. We make choices every day…
Read MoreWhy?
“Call them all together—men, women, children, and the foreigners living in your towns—so they may hear this Book of Instruction and learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully obey all the terms of these instructions. Do this so that your children who have not known these instructions will hear them and will learn…
Read MoreThe Discipline of “Good Behavior”
There is a discipline that is imposed on us by others to teach and to train. There is also the discipline we impose upon ourselves (parent and child) that produces good behavior. No one can see the heart of another apart from their actions. Only God knows the true heart of an individual, which shows…
Read MoreConsequences, Discipline, or?
A consequence is “a result or effect of an action or condition.” Discipline is “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.” Both are useful and necessary in shaping all of us. As parents, we have opportunities to utilize both consequences and discipline in raising…
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