The following books are the ones we recommended on Saturday morning and are designed to help us as parents in furthering both our understanding of the ultimate goal of our parenting, and our role as a parent with that goal in view.
If Saturday’s seminar was just the bare bones, these books will flesh out the detail. We have ordered in a number of each title and they should be available soon!
Teach them Diligently by Lou Priolo
There is far more to teaching our children the Bible than merely telling them Bible stories.
In this book, Lou Priolo provides principles and insights that will strenthen our parenting skills by teaching us how to use the Scriptures more thoroughly and effectively in our child training.
Topics covered include “Teaching the Scriptures”, “Convicting with the Scriptures” and “Learning to use Life’s Instruction Manual”.
A valuable aid on any parents bookcase!
Available from the church book stall for £7
The following books are the ones we recommended on Saturday morning and are designed to help us as parents in furthering both our understanding of the ultimate goal of our parenting, and our role as a parent with that goal in view.
If Saturday’s seminar was just the bare bones, these books will flesh out the detail. We have ordered in a number of each title and they should be available soon!
Don’t Make Me Count to Three! by Ginger Plowman
Aimed at mums right in the midst of parenting!
In this book Ginger Plowman enocurages and equips mums with straightforward, direct, helpful and hopeful counsel, weaving together solid biblical truth and practical parenting advice!
Contains 3 very helpful, short appendices covering “How to become a Christian“, “How to Lead Your Children to Christ” and “How to Pray for Your Child“.
Ginger Plowman has also produces a handy quick-reference calendar-style booklet called “Wise Words for Moms” which helps identify patterns of disobedience we find in our children and suggests examples of Scripture passage that will help address heart issues.
Both are available from the church book stall. The book is £6.50 and the booklet £2.50
The following books are the ones we recommended on Saturday morning and are designed to help us as parents in furthering both our understanding of the ultimate goal of our parenting, and our role as a parent with that goal in view.
If Saturday’s seminar was just the bare bones, these books will flesh out the detail. We have ordered in a number of each title and they should be available soon!
Everyday Talk by John Younts
God gives very specific instructions for being a parent in Deuteronomy 6:4-9. He wants us to talk to our children about God and his ways!
In this book author John Younts offers practical advice and creative ways to do just that!
It is practical and biblical and gives great hope and encouragement to us as parents. It provides penetrating insights into the heart and always keeps before the reading parent the importance and centrality of the gospel.
Younts, skillfully teaches us how ordinary, everyday conversations with our children can be used to show our children the kindness and wisdom of God, so as to lead them into a greater awareness of His gospel, presence and glory.
A MUST read!
Available from the church book stall for £6!
Just two further resources to recommend to serve us as parents with regard to our role and task:
1. Parenting Interviews from Covenant Life Church.
Three couples from the pastoral team at Covenant Life Church (our Sovereign Grace sister church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) are interviewed about parenting issues.
Each couple tackles questions on a different age group and provides three essential “Big Ideas” that our parenting should focus on during these years:
Brian & Kristen Chesemore on younger children.
Kenneth & Valori Maresco on children in the early teen years.
John & Nancy Loftness on children in the late teens & university years.
The audio file can be downloaded from here.
The Family Room, the ministry serving families at Covenant Life Church also write a blog which provides useful articles on marriage and parenting issues.
2. Hints for Parenting.
Hints for Parenting is a book by an 19th Century pastor in New York City, Gardiner Spring.
Rich in its content, the book has an added bonus, as it contains short gospel encouragements from pastor Tedd Tripp designed to enhance our reading of the book to maxmise the benefit from Gardiner Spring’s wisdom.
The content of this little book is arranged under four headings:
a. Important Truths to teach your children.
b. Measure to take to teach these things.
c. Motvations to be faithful in this parental work.
d. Encouragements from the promises of God.
Available from the church bookstall for £5!
Here’s the Take It Home sheet from this Sunday’s message The Miracle With a Message.
The audio for the message is available to download from here.
Alternatively, you can get the sermon audio via our iTunes podcast.
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