Here’s the list of resources we mentioned at last Saturday’s Family Matters: Parenting Seminar.

Craftsmen by John Crotts

This book is an easy, short (relatively – 160 pages!) book for men. The subtitle captures the essence of the book – “Skillfully leading your family for Christ.”

John Crotts teaches and instructs us on how to be wise and skillful leads of our families and homes by opening up the wisdom in the book of Proverbs. The wisdom provided in this book will no doubt help us to equip our sons to be men too!

Another book recommendation was:
Proverbs for Parenting complied by Babara Decker.

In this book the author has gone through the book of Proverbs and categorised the various verses under particular headings – such as: anger, drunkenness, lust, etc. It’s perfect reference guide to help quickly find verse that address specific issues we face in our own lives and the lives of our children and bring God’s wisdom to bear on them!

Finally, for book recommendations…

A commentary for the study of Proverbs is a handy tool, and I’d suggest:

Proverbs by Charles Bridges.

For those interested in the article and questions on proverbs that we mentioned, you can download them by clicking the relevant links.

Finally, an audio message by Al Mohler on “Being Men, Raising Men.“

Audio and notes from Saturday 7th June 2008…

Session 1:
Boys To Men: Raising Sons for the Glory of God – Nathan Smith
Audio (42mins) Notes

Session 2:
Parenting Daughters – Peter Bowley
Audio (51mins) Notes

The material for our next split Men/Women caregroups, studying biblical manhood and womanhood, comes courtesy of Covenant Life Church.

You can listen on-line by clicking the link or download the file and listen off-line by saving it with a right click (PC) or Control-Click (mac).

For Men: Biblical Manhood (Joshua Harris)

For Women: Biblical Womanhood (Carolyn Mahaney)

The next meetings are planned for:

Bowley/Joy Groups: Tuesday 22nd April 2008
Smith/Sussex Groups: Wednesday 23rd April 2008

CBMW stands for “The Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood”, and they have recently launched a brand new website packed full of articles, journals, audio messages, book downloads, a blog – the works!

CBMW exists “…to help believers and local churches benefit from glorious biblical truths about God’s design of men and women.”

Go check it out for yourself! www.cbmw.org