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Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Love Battery

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LOVE BATTERY – Every good parent loves their kids.  But, do they love their kids with the kind of love that God requires in the parent/child relationship?  God’s love is like a battery–it has a positive and a negative side to it.  Too many parents love their kids from the positive side of the love battery only.  That’s the touchy-feely, warm-fuzzy side.  Every child needs this kind of affirmation.  

But, it’s the negative side of the love battery that too often gets neglected.  It’s what many refer to as “tough love.”  It’s the discipline side of love.  Remember Scripture says “If we don’t discipline our kids, we don’t love our kids.”  And, like a battery, if all we do is work off the positive side of love, then love becomes as ineffective as a battery with the negative cable missing.  It just doesn’t work.  And it doesn’t work; because, it isn’t love as God defines love.


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I am the Founder of Shepherd’s Hill Academy, a Christ-Centered, nature-based, therapeutic boarding school, the Host of License to Parent, and the Author of the book “The Miracles of Shepherd’s Hill:  An Extraordinary Odyssey of Divine Interventions.”  The environment at Shepherd’s Hill Academy is intentionally designed to provide a rich, discipleship-focused atmosphere that promotes physical, emotional, and spiritual health and healing to troubled teenager and their families.  Learn More

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