A Note to Parents Reading ‘New Morning Mercies for Kids’

The Discipline and Instruction of the Lord The central task of parenting is not ensuring that your child gets a good education and a good job, develops talented athletic and artistic skills, and ends up marrying well. No, your primary calling is to bring up your child “in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4). This means that you are the one God has chosen to introduce your child to him, his truth, and what it looks like to live in a way that pleases him. To help you do this, God has given you his word and his church. His word is your greatest resource because it’s there that God reveals himself, his truth, and his redeeming grace to your child. His church offers you training and practical resources of truth and grace to help you along the way so that you can be God’s tool in the life of your child. New Morning Mercies for Kids is one of those practical resources. It helps you introduce your child to the truths of Scripture, to the God those truths point to, and to his rescuing and forgiving grace. This devotional highlights twenty core truths of the Christian faith, such as God’s glory, God’s sovereignty, sin, Christ’s righteousness, grace, the Holy Spirit, and pr...