God Is The Perfect Parent

Hopefully, your family has started the journey of implementing a family devotional time each day. Make sure you are not ignoring your own need for a quiet time before God asking for His wisdom in this season of parenting. Remember, your kids are learning from you all day not just during your family devotional time. A perfect parenting devotional centers on the truth that God is the only perfect parent, offering grace for our imperfections while guiding us to steward our children through prayer, love, and consistency. Instead of aiming for perfection, focus on daily connection, nurturing faith, and modeling repentance, relying on God's strength.

• God is the Perfect Parent: Rely on the truth that God is a nurturing, protective, and patient Father, which frees you from the pressure of being a perfect parent.

• Grace Over Perfection: Embrace the 70/30 rule—being loving and consistent most of the time is enough; God uses your imperfections to teach your children about grace.The 70/30 rule in parenting young children is a gentle reminder that you don't need to be perfect all the time. The idea is this: if you're able to respond to your child's needs with love and consistency 70% of the time, that's enough. The other 30%? It's okay to be imperfect. Children don't need perfect parents — they need "good enough" parents who are present, loving, and willing to repair when things go wrong. For those of us wrestling with perfectionism in parenting young children, the 70 30 rule can be a lifeline. It says: you're allowed to have bad days. You're allowed to mess up. What matters is that you use your imperfections to point your kids to Christ. 

• Shift from Fear to Faith: Replace fear-based parenting with trust in God's power, focusing on loving your children and teaching them to love others.

• Stewardship, Not Control: View parenting as guiding and preparing children for life, rather than controlling outcomes, which reduces stress. 

"God loves messy things. Really. He loves broken people. He loves earnest half efforts that don't look right to everyone else. God is crazy about loud children (and self-conscious adults) who don't exactly know how to do the worship thing right but come and give it a shot anyway, because they know that some little bit of God is better than the nothing they have. This is what Christians call grace. And grace is the church at its best, the AA of spirituality: Sinners Anonymous, where the only thing you have to show off is your scars. The only ticket that gets you in is the list of reasons you should be kicked out."
― Justin Whitmel Earley, Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms

March is coming in like a lion here at Beachside! We have a lot going on and we are excited to have you join us for the fun. Tomorrow,Wednesday March 4, join us for a night of Worship at 6pm in the Sanctuary. Worship nights are always incredible and include times of worship through song, prayer and reading Scripture. We would love to see you there!
ThisSunday, Beachside will be having ONE service at 10:30am at the Marine Discovery Center. This will be an opportunity for our entire church body to be together in worship and hear from God's Word. This is not a joint event with other churches- it is our normal service in a place large enough to accommodate all of us in one spot. Bring a blanket for your family to spread out or use some of our chairs. We will be having lunch together afterwards on the grounds of the center. Bring a drink to share and/or a side dish. The church will be providing pizza!