{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fninth-o-baptist-church.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fee60f52e-ee60f52e","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Reflections on the Family from a Middle-Aged (and that might be a little generous!) Grandfather","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/f18229/f18229f5-3094-4303-9893-aeab9c6648ff/470e91d9-3b42-44bc-9cc7-608f2536d8a6/1487009560artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/470e91d9-3b42-44bc-9cc7-608f2536d8a6\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Reflections on the Family from a Middle-Aged (and that might be a little generous!) Grandfather\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"1.) God loves your family and wants your family to prosper. 2.) Satan hates your family and is always at work to defeat, divide, and destroy it - spiritually, emotionally, and relationally. 3.) No one has a perfect family because no family has any perfect people in it. 4.) Don’t measure God’s blessings by your standard of living. Sometimes our standard of living is a curse rather than a blessing. 5.) If you want to know God’s blessings in your family then you must be committed to your own sanctification. 6.) Your sanctification will require a commitment to forgiveness and sacrificial love. 7.) Your most effective parenting and greatest expression of love is done on your knees in prayer. - “Until you are convinced that you can’t change your child’s heart, you will not take prayer seriously.” (Paul Miller, A Praying Life, 167) - “It didn’t take me long to realize that I did my best parenting by prayer” (Paul Miller, A Praying Life,60)\r\n\r\n"}