child training, and self-denial.

Welcome. It's another look into the life and message of Elizabeth Allian who called us to live to a higher standard each day.

To not be satisfied with just throwing a little religion into life as a shallow substitute for giving God our best.

As our series continues in the coming weeks, we'll hear from friends, from family, from others.

All influenced by Elizabeth's life and message.

Today we begin a ten-part series on child training, with our two programs self-denial and disciplining your children.

As we think about child training today, Kathy Rieg, president of the Elizabeth Allian Foundation, has some thoughts about a parenting book she found one time.

And we'll have some insights on an Elizabeth Allian exhibit at the Museum of the Bible, as we hear from curator Amy Van Dyke.

Right now let's get started with part one of child training. It's called self-denial.

You are loved with an everlasting love. That's what the Bible says, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

This is your friend, Elizabeth Allian. Talking with my daughter Valerie Sheppard today, and the subject Valerie is...

Love's demands.

Love's demands. And I'm going to begin by reading something from F.D. Maurice.

How many times we can most of us remember when we would gladly have made any compromise with our consciences?

Would gladly have made the most costly sacrifices to God? If he would only have excused us from this duty of loving, of which our nature seemed utterly incapable.

It's far easier to feel kindly, to act kindly, toward those with whom we are seldom brought into contact, whose tempers and prejudices do not rub against ours, whose interests do not clash with ours,

then it is to keep up a habitual, steady, self-sacrificing love towards those whose weaknesses and faults are always forcing themselves upon us and are stirring up our own.

A man may pass good muster as a philanthropist who makes a poor master to his servants or a father to his children.

I'd like to say something about self-denial, that love demands self-denial.

And we know that from Jesus's command to pick up our cross and lay down our lives for others.

I've found in raising children, I have eight of them, that I have to die to my love of approval from my children.

I would have loved many, many, many times for my children to like what I had to say to them.

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