You fathers are responsible to God for raising your children with a special, ‘hands on’ love and affection—never cold or distant… God wants fathers to bring their children up in the;
Ø ‘Training of the Lord’ {paideia} a word that means: government, nurturing, instruction, and discipline… TRAINING our children in the Lord means that we do everything we possibly can—to promote their physical, emotional, moral, and spiritual wellbeing—always pointing them to Christ…
Ø ‘Admonition of the Lord’ { nouthesia} lit. – to put in mind… ADMONITION is the verbal activity of reminding our children of what God wants them to do… Sometimes, this word is translated warning… (1 Cor 4:14) ‘I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I WARN you.’
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
