{"id":39301,"date":"2026-02-17T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39301"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:15:56","slug":"260218-entrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260218-entrust\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrust Children to Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39303 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260218_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260218_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260218_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fear turns some parents into paranoid prison guards who monitor every minute and check the background of every friend.\u00a0 A family with no breathing room suffocates a child.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, fear can also create permissive parents.\u00a0 Fearing that their child will feel too confined or fenced in, they are high on hugs and low on discipline.\u00a0 They don\u2019t realize that appropriate discipline is an expression of love.<\/p>\n<p>Permissive parents.\u00a0 Paranoid parents.\u00a0 How can we avoid the extremes?\u00a0 We pray. Jesus\u2019 big message to moms and dads?\u00a0 Bring your children to me. Pray that your children have a profound sense of place in this world and a heavenly place in the next. Parents, we can entrust our kids to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39136 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1-unnamed-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=ed9d33b78d&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3Ded9d33b78d%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1770856680744000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1JJZWU9Zyf54k7XSWVRNHN\"><em>Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear turns some parents into paranoid prison guards who monitor every minute and check the background of every friend.  A family with no breathing room suffocates a child.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, fear can also create permissive parents.  Fearing that their child will feel too confined or fenced in, they are high on hugs and low on discipline.  They don\u2019t realize that appropriate discipline is an expression of love.<\/p>\n<p>Permissive parents.  Paranoid parents.  How can we avoid the extremes?  We pray. Jesus\u2019 big message to moms and dads?  Bring your children to me. Pray that your children have a profound sense of place in this world and a heavenly place in the next. Parents, we can entrust our kids to Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39304,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39301\/revisions\/39304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}