Teaching Children By Example

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel. Archbishop Tillotson made a wise remark when he said, “To give children good instruction, and a bad example, is but beckoning to them with the head to show them the way to heaven, while we take them by the hand and lead them in the way to hell.”

We little know the force and power of example. No one of us can live to himself in this world; we are always influencing those around us, in one way or another, either for good or for evil, either for God or for sin. — They see our ways, they mark our conduct, they observe our behaviour, and what they see us practice, that they may fairly suppose we think right. And never, I believe, does example tell so powerfully as it does in the case of parents and children.

Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear. No school will make such deep marks on character as home. The best of schoolmasters will not imprint on their minds as much as they will pick up at your fireside. Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.

Take care, then, what you do before a child. It is a true proverb, “Who sins before a child, sins double.” Strive rather to be a living epistle of Christ, such as your families can read, and that plainly too. Be an example of reverence for the Word of God, reverence in prayer, reverence for means of grace, reverence for the Lord’s day. — Be an example in words, in temper, in diligence, in temperance, in faith, in charity, in kindness, in humility. Think not your children will practice what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are. Your reasoning and your lecturing, your wise commands and your good advice; all this they may not understand, but they can understand your life.

Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often find as the father is, so is the son.

Remember the word that the conqueror Caesar always used to his soldiers in a battle. He did not say “Go forward,” but “Come.” So it must be with you in training your children. They will seldom learn habits, which they see you, despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself. He that preaches to his children what he does not practice is working a work that never goes forward. It is like the fabled web of Penelope of old, who wove all day, and unwove all night. Even so, the parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other. – J. C. Ryle

The Lord’s Day Services

Sunday, February 7th 10:00a.m. Sunday School classes for all ages.

Adult Bible Class – Study on God’s Existence – Dr. Frank McClelland

11:00a.m. Morning Service – Dr. Larry Saunders

Communion following the morning service.

6:00p.m. Pre-Service Prayer Meeting
6:30p.m. Evening Service – Dr. Larry Saunders

Weekly Announcements

Wednesday, February 10th 7:25p.m. Prayer Meeting & Bible Study
Thursday, February 11th 6:00p.m. Session Meeting
7:30p.m. Board and Session Meeting
Friday, February 12th 7:00p.m. Good News Bible Club

Advance Announcements

Sunday, February 14th 11:00a.m. Morning Service – Dr. Larry Saunders
6:30p.m. Evening Service – Dr. Larry Saunders
Wednesday, February 17th 7:25p.m. Family Prayer Meeting & Bible Study
Thursday, February 18th 7:30p.m. Women’s Missionary Fellowship – Meeting in the high school
 Friday, February 19th 9:00a.m. Women’s Morning Bible Study
7:00p.m. Good News Bible Club

Please Pray For:

Winter Retreat

We are looking forward to the Winter Retreat for the Youth and College & Career that will be held on February 26-28, 2016. Rev. Armen Thomassian will be the guest speaker. Please be in prayer for these meetings. If you would like to contribute to help cover some of the cost for the youth, please contact Jonathan McAnally or David Solc. Email us now

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Men’s Bible Fellowship Weekend

We will be having a Men’s Bible Fellowship Weekend at Nottawasaga Inn & Resort on April 89, 2016.

The Rev. Colin Mercer will be the guest speaker. More Details to Follow!

Deepest Sympathy

We would like to extend our sympathy to Eddy Santos and family on the passing of his grandmother in Portugal.  Please keep the family in prayer at this sad time.