Discipline is essential to this teaching. Moses incorporated these words into his address: ‘Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you’ (Deut. 8:5). He is calling mothers and fathers to live under the authority of God’s teaching, modeling for our children what it is to live disciplined lives. As we live under God’s authority, what we teach our children about the ways of God takes on more existential relevance to them. If I teach them one mode of
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