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Hello, you are listening to Second City Sermons,

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sermon. God Bless. How do we think of these words

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in the first Thessalonians, admonish the idol,

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encourage the weak, be patient Lord. And some

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of us need admonishing and some of us need patience

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and some of us need encouragement. And I pray

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Lord that this morning you would meet us where

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we are, that you'd encourage us, that you would

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admonish us, that you would challenge us. that

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your kindness and your grace, your attentiveness

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would be evident in our lives. And then, Lord,

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having received such kindness and care, Lord,

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would we imitate you, please? God, shape us by

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your good news, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

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So just around the time when Lily was being born,

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I attended a conference, actually along with

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Jed, the previous pastor here down outside of

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Atlanta in Decatur. And among other things that

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were going on at this conference, it was a bunch

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of pastors, was one of them, this guy named Martin

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Bond was giving a talk, kind of a discussion

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that he was leading. He gave a talk and then

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answered questions like these things happen about

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parenting. I remember thinking about it, of course,

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because partly I wasn't down there necessarily

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for that. But of course, in my mind, with the

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idea of having a child, this was something I

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was eager to hear about. And I had read books,

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and I continue to read some books on parenting.

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I listen to lectures and stuff. But what Martin

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Bonds said with me stuck. And here's what he

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was mostly talking about is that parenting kind

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of shifts. Like there's these different stages

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where parenting takes on certain sort of demands

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and sort of invite certain kinds of speech and

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actions and care for.