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Jim Newheiser

Why Do Kids Turn Out the Way They Do?

Journal of Biblical Counseling 23:3

In this article, Jim Newheiser argues that parents are responsible to train their children according to God’s principles. But even when they do, teenagers choose other directions because they are sinners by nature, too. Newheiser concludes that God’s sovereignty and mercy are the only source of hope for a rebelling child—only He can turn the child back to Himself.

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