Sermon
Crazy Parenting
Cross Church
Speaker: Nick Floyd
May 12, 2025 · 35 min
Summary
Drawing from Proverbs 1:8-9, the sermon emphasizes that godly parents provide two essential things: correction (discipline, training, warning) and direction (instruction toward God's values). The preacher contrasts helicopter parenting with backup parenting, arguing that parents must set family direction toward Christ while allowing children to experience consequences and ultimately choose their own spiritual path.
Highlights
Overall direction is more important than day-by-day interaction. We all miss it in the day-to-day interaction, but what's more important is as a family overall, we're headed towards the Lord and the things of God.
Helicopter parents don't raise adults. They raise adolescents who can shave.
You can do it all wrong, but just one touch of God on their life can change everything.