Partnering while Parenting | Ephesians 6:1–4

About this episode

This episode discusses the transition from a child-centered home to a Christ-centered home, emphasizing the responsibilities of parents in spiritual upbringing.

Scripture: Ephesians 6:1–4 + From a Child-Centered Home to a Christ-Centered Home + From Outsourcing to Owning. “All this that we here suffer is through you: you should have taught us the things of God, and did not; you should have restrained us from sin and corrected us, and you did not; you were the means of our original corruption and guiltiness, and yet you never showed any competent care that we might be delivered from it...Woe unto us that we had such carnal and careless parents, and woe unto you that had no more compassion and pity to prevent the everlasting misery of your own children” – Richard Mather, cited in Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were by Leland Ryken. + From Controlling to Cultivating Proverbs 13:24 NIV Proverbs 19:18 NIV Philippians 2:13 NIV + From Moving Them Out to Sending Them Out. Psalm 127:3–5 NIV

People in this episode

Host: Church at the Cross

Topics covered

• parenting
• spiritual growth
• Ephesians 6
• child-centered home
• Christ-centered home
• Proverbs
• family

Keywords

• Ephesians 6:1–4
• parenting
• spirituality
• Proverbs
• family dynamics
• child development
• Christian education

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were

More episodes of Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages

• When We Yield the Throne to God | Genesis · June 8, 2026 · 39 min
• Wrestling with God | Genesis 32 · June 2, 2026 · 40 min
• The Forming of Jacob and the Faithfulness of God | Genesis 29-31; Lamentations 3:19-24 · May 26, 2026 · 35 min
• The Lord is in this Place | Genesis 28 · May 18, 2026 · 42 min
• Gospel Fueled Marriage Skills | Ephesians 4:29-5:2 · May 4, 2026 · 29 min
• The Church that Sends | Acts 13:1–5 · April 28, 2026 · 31 min