If you are evil with your wife; if you bark at your wife like a dog, and you are edgy and touchy and irritable and you do not repent of that before your children; if you are yelling at your wife and the phone rings and when you answer the phone you can be Mr. Nice, changed as if a button has been pushed, nice to the stranger, but when your wife asks you a question you bite her head off, then you are teaching your children that God's Word has no binding authority. All of your words about respect and kindness you may just as well keep in your mouth. 

THE REFORMED WITNESS HOUR
"The Duties of Parents" (1)
Rev. Carl Haak

(e-mail: 71324.3465@compuserve.com)

November 9, 1997; No. 2862 

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