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All Ages
Shepherding a Child's Heart
Ted Tripp
Written for parents with children of any age, this insightful book provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child's heart into the paths of life. Shepherding a Child's Heart gives fresh biblical approaches to child rearing.
All Ages
Instructing a Child's Heart
Ted and Margie Tripp From interaction with their peers to the instruction and correction that they receive at home, Children interpret their experience from a worldview that seeks to answer their fundamental questions: Who am I? What do I exist for? Where can I find joy? We need to provide our children with a consistent, persuasive, biblical framework for understanding the world God has made and their place in it. Instructing a Child's Heart is essential to Shepherding a Child's Heart. The instruction that you provide for them not only informs their mind; it is directed to persuading their hearts of the wisdom and truthfulness of God s ways. Impress truth on the hearts of your children, not to control or manage them, but to point them to the greatest joy and happiness that they can experience delighting in God and the goodness of his ways.
All Ages
Romancing Your Child's Heart
Monte Swan and David Biebel
Parents can have awesome relationships with their children, but it is not enough to fill them with Bible facts, verses, and demand of them certain desired behaviors - you must first capture their hearts. When a child is young, parents can impose their will. When the child is older, however, if the parent hasn't won his heart, all the force in the world will only serve to drive him farther and farther away. How can parents win the hearts of their children? It all starts with romance - exactly as God woos us. Not just another parenting book, Monte Swan takes an entirely new approach to reaching the heart of a child . . . the way of romance. Desiring to lead their children to a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, parents will learn the very best approach to open the hearts of their children. Swan teaches parents how they can enter into the world of their children and give them not only what they long for, but what they need . . . an environment of total love and security from which they can conquer the challenges life has to offer. He demonstrates how any parent can turn the tables on the world and romance the hearts of their children to the love of God. With practical advice in real-life parenting situations, Swan equips parents first with the enthusiasm for the challenge ahead and then with concrete ways to win the heart of any child.
All Ages
101 Conversation Starters for Families
Ramon L. Presson and Gary D. Chapman
One of the signs of a healthy family is open and meaningful conversation. But it's not always easy to get your kids talking. 101 Conversation Starters for Families is an excellent place to begin, providing just the right blend of fun and thought-provoking questions.
All Ages
DoorPost Website
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Topical reference guide to biblical child training that I use as well as charts: if-then charts, blessing charts, tattle tell charts. http://www.doorposts.com
All Ages
Praying the Bible for Your Child
David and Heather Kopp
Over 50 personal prayers to pray for your son or daughter that guide a parent in ways to pray more specifically. http://www.beliefnet.com
All Ages
Grace-Based Parenting
Tim Kimmel
Parenting style that mirrors God's love, reflects His forgiveness, and displaces fear as a motivator for behavior. As we embrace the grace God offers, we begin to give it-creating a solid foundation for growing morally strong and spiritually motivated children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn-oizt_t8k
All Ages
For Parents Only: Getting Inside the Head of Shaunti Feldmahn Your Kid and Linda A. Rice
All Ages
The Five Languages of Apology: How to Experience Healing in All Your Relationships
Jennifer M. Thomas and Gary D. Chapman
Just as you have a different love language, you also hear and express the words and gestures of apology in a different language. Groundbreaking study of the way we apologize, discovering that it's not just a matter of will--it's a matter of how. By helping people identify the languages of apology, this book clears the way toward healing and sustaining vital relationships. The authors detail proven techniques for giving and receiving effective apologies.
All Ages
Praying the Scriptures for Your Children
Jodie Berndt
You'll discover how to pray specifically and expectantly for their faith, character, safety, relationships, and future. You'll gain new, biblical perspectives on God's purposes for your children. And through the encouragement of the Scriptures and true-life stories, you'll find out what a huge difference your prayers really make in the lives of those you love most. Discover How to Pray God's Will for Your Children's Lives There's no place like God's Word to turn to when you want to pray confidently and effectively for your kids.
BirthToddlers
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart John Medina and Happy Child from Zero to Five
They explore the results of a nationwide survey and personal interviews with more than 1,000 real-life teens and tweens to tackle those things parents often don’t “get” about their kids. You’ll hear first-hand about the longings that drive your kids’ seemingly illogical decisions, the truth behind those exasperating “attitude problems,” and what your children would tell you if they could trust you to truly listen.=HYPERLINK("http://www.shaunti.com/BooksStudies/ForParentsOnly/tabid/139/Default.aspx","http://www.shaunti.com/Boo ksStudies/ForParentsOnly/tabid/139/Default.aspx")
Bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. Through fascinating and funny stories, Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a child’s brain develops--and what you can do to optimize it. http://brainrules.net/
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Happiest Baby on the Block
Dr. Harvey Karp
Dr. Karp blends modern science and ancient wisdom to prove that newborns are not fully ready for the world when they are born. Through his research and experience, he has developed four basic principles that are crucial for understanding babies as well as improving their sleep and soothing their senses: http://www.happiestbaby.com/
BirthToddlers
Happiest Toddler on the Block
Dr. Harvey Karp
Combining his trademark tools of Toddler-ese and the Fast-Food Rule with a highly effective new green light/yellow light/red light method for molding toddler behavior, Dr. Karp provides fast solutions for today’s busy and stressed parents.
BirthToddlers
Different Children, Different Needs: Understanding the Unique Personality of Your Child
Dr. Charles Boyd
Biblical parenting involves encouraging, exhorting, and empathizing with children according to their unique needs and character. This re-release of Different Children, Different Needs clarifies what the Bible means when it commands us to "train up a child in the way he should go" (Proverbs 22:6). It teaches moms and dads how to understand the personality God has given each of their children and how to tailor their parenting styles to meet their children's needs. Pastor Charles Boyd uses the popular DISC personality assessment model to help parents better recognize, accept, and appreciate their kids' temperaments.
BirthToddlers
You Can't Make Me (But I Can Be Cynthia Tobias Persuaded) : Strategies for Bringing Out the Best in Your Strong-Willed Child
Struggling in the early years with a strong-willed child! Suggestions given on “choosing your battles” and understanding what may be the “triggers” for a strong-willed child to act out.
BirthToddlers
The First Two Years (Focus on the Family)
Paul C Reisser
Since babies don't come with an instruction manual, we asked the experts to write one. Here it is-the comprehensive guide to rearing emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy babies-from the most respected name in Christian parenting: Focus on the Family. The first two years is unlike any other book of its kind. Taking a balanced, commonsense approach to the privilege of parenting, this indispensable guide delivers an encouraging, enlightening perspective and many helpful reference sections, including a comprehensive emergency care section. This exhaustive reference took is a must-have for today's parent. In one handy volume, you'll find answers to your questions and explore realistic approaches to parenting.
Preschool
Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility
Foster Cline and Jim Fay
Teaches parents phrases to use and techniques that help the child take responsibility for their actions. http://www.loveandlogic.com/
Becky A. Bailey
Learn how to stop policing and pleading and become the parent you want to be. Focusing on self-control and confidence-building for both parent and child. http://consciousdiscipline.com/
Preschool
Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline
Preschool
Why Boys & Girls Are Different: For Boys Ages 4-6 and Parents
Carol Greene
This book, the first in the Learning About Sex series for boys, aids parents in the often difficult task of introducing and explaining human sexuality. The simple, age-appropriate text and pictures in this book teach boys ages 4 to 6 that the similarities and differences between boys and girls are created by God for specific reasons.
Preschool
Why Boys & Girls Are Different: For Girls Ages 4-6 and Parents
Carol Greene
This book, the first in the Learning About Sex series for girls, aids parents in the often difficult task of introducing and explaining human sexuality. The simple, age-appropriate text and pictures in this book teach girls ages 4 to 6 that the similarities and differences between boys and girls are created by God for specific reasons.
Elementary
Good and Angry: Exchanging Frustration for Scott Turnasky and Character in You and Your Kids! Joanne Miller
Taps into the constructive side of parents’ anger and teaches welcome strategies for addressing the things their children do to drive them crazy. Addressing common problem areas for children
Elementary
Helping Your Kids Deal with Anger, Fear, and Sadness The 5 Love Languages of Children
H. Norman Wright
Biblically based and solution-oriented
Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell
Discover your child's primary language and learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's emotions and behavior. http://www.5lovelanguages.com/resource/the-five-lovelanguages-of-children/
Elementary
Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children
Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Step by step, you will take strides toward bringing control to an out-of-control family life, setting limits while still being a loving parent—and above all, instilling in your children the godly character that is the foundation for healthy, productive adult living. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zk8d09C218
Elementary
Launching Your Child's Faith: Too Hard or Too Scary? (Website Article)
John Trent
Take a look at seven common faith-launching worries parents face. http://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/spiritual_growth_for_kids/ignite_your_childs_love_for_jesus/launching_your_childs_fai th_too_hard_or_too_scary.aspx
Elementary
Faithlaunch
John Trent and Jane Vogel
The FaithLaunch program teaches the basics of Christianity (the nature of God, man, sin, Jesus, the Bible, and salvation), culminating in an invitation to receive Christ as Savior or to affirm a salvation decision already made. This 90-day program. http://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/spiritual_growth_for_kids.aspx
Elementary
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Elementary
Where Do Babies Come From?: For Boys Ages 7-9 and Parents
Ruth Hummel
This book, the second in the Learning About Sex series for boys, aids parents in the often difficult task of introducing and explaining human sexuality. Where do Babies Come From? helps boys ages 7 to 9 better understand how a new baby develops using simple and accurate language.
Elementary
Where Do Babies Come From?: For Girls Ages 7-9 and Parents
Ruth Hummel
This book, the second in the Learning About Sex series for girls, aids parents in the often difficult task of introducing and explaining human sexuality. Where do Babies Come From? helps girls ages 7 to 9 better understand how a new baby develops using simple and accurate language
Elementary
Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas to Build Lasting Kara E. Powell and Faith in Your Kids Chap Clark
Elementary
8 Great Dates for Moms and Daughters (Secret Keeper Girl)
Dannah Gresh
8 Great Dates includes fun mother-daughter get-togethers, perfect one-on-one or for a small group of moms and their energetic 812 year-old daughters. Each date focuses on one topic surrounding beauty and modesty and is full of fun while at the same time imparting a life and faith-enhancing message. The book provides a mom with everything she needs to plan and carry out the activities.
Middle School
Truth Project
Dr. Del Tackett
Uncovers the heart issues affecting families during the often-chaotic adolescent years. =HYPERLINK("http://www.thetruthproject.org/","http://www.thetruthproject.org/")
Middle School
The Five Love Languages of Your Teen
Gary Chapman
Get equipped to be a better parent as The Five Love Languages of Teenagers explores the world in which teenagers live, explains the developmental changes, and give tools to help you identify and appropriately communicate in your teen's love language. http://www.5lovelanguages.com/resource/the-5-love-languages-of-teenagers/
Middle School
Parenting Your Teenager with Love and Logic
Jim Fay
Empowers parents with the skills necessary to set limits, teach important skills, and encourage decision-making in their teenagers. http://www.loveandlogic.com/
Middle School
Boundaries with Teens: When to Say Yes, How to Say No
John Townsend
Learn how to apply biblical principles to specific problems. Boundaries with Teens can help you establish wise and loving limits that make a positive difference in your adolescent, in the rest of your family, and in you.
Middle School
Dear Dad, If I Could Tell You Anything: What Kids Want Their Fathers to Know
Doug Webster
After interviewing over 1,000 teenagers, Doug Webster gleaned the wisdom that every father should hear. While addressing important issues like self-esteem, acceptance, forgiveness, and approval, Dear Dad shines a light on eleven key messages from kids to their dads.
Middle School
I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Joshua Harris
Its inspiring call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the benchmark for books on Christian dating.
Middle School
Boy's Passage Man's Journey Set
Brian Molitor w/Kirk Cameron
Primarily designed for fathers and sons, Boy’s Passage—Man’s Journey is an eye-opening message of how to deliberately and strategically transform young boys into productive and godly men. https://store.kirkcameron.com/boyspassage/
Middle School
Boy's Passage, Man's Journey
Brian Molitor
In this celebratory and hopeful book, parents and other concerned adults learn how to guide boys and young men on their journey to maturity.http://briandmolitor.com/
Middle School
Preparing for Adolescence: How to Survive the Coming Years of Change
Dr. James Dobson
What do you say to an adolescent who’s getting ready to enter those turbulent teenage years? Dr. James Dobson, one of America’s leading family psychologists, knows how to speak directly and sincerely to today’s adolescents about the topics that trouble them most. Topics include avoiding feelings of inferiority, handling peer pressure, drug abuse, puberty, sexual development, menstruation, masturbation, romantic love, overcoming discouragement, sound decision-making and handling independence.
Middle School
Parenting Today’s Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Dennis Rainey
Normally confident moms and dads grow weak-kneed when their children enter--gasp!--puberty. Barbara and Dennis Rainey, parents of six teenage or older children, map out the unfamiliar, demanding landscape of both pre-adolescence (ages 10-12), as well as the teen years that follow. "Preadolescence is when convictions are shaped; adolescence is when convictions are tested," they advise parents. In Parenting Today's Adolescent the Raineys help children and parents build a satisfying relationship while forging a vision for a productive, God-honoring life-before, during, and after adolescence.
Nearly every Christian parent in America would give anything to find a viable resource for developing within their kids a deep, dynamic faith that 'sticks' long term. Sticky Faith delivers. Research shows that almost half of graduating high school seniors struggle deeply with their faith. Recognizing the ramifications of that statistic, the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) conducted the 'College Transition Project' in an effort to identify the relationships and best practices that can set young people on a trajectory of lifelong faith and service. Based on FYI findings, this easy-to-read guide presents both a compelling rationale and a powerful strategy to show parents how to actively encourage their children's spiritual growth so that it will stick to them into adulthood and empower them to develop a living, lasting faith. Written by authors known for the integrity of their research and the intensity of their passion for young people, Sticky Faith is geared to spark a movement that empowers adults to develop robust and long-term faith in kids of all ages
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Middle School
How You Are Changing: For Boys Ages 1012 and Parents (Learning about Sex)
Jane Graver & Len Ebert
Middle School
How You Are Changing: For Girls Ages 1012 and Parents
Jane Graver
The changes that occur to preteens can be very traumatic. This book, the third in the Learning About Sex series for girls, explains to 10- to 12-year-olds that these changes are normal and are a part of God's unfolding plan for their growth and development.
Middle School
Teaching True Love to a Sex-at-13 Generation
Eric and Leslie Ludy
No parent wants to admit that their child-even their well-educated, well-grounded, Christian child-could be having consensual sex before graduating middle school. Promise rings, parental contracts and disease warnings provide but meager defense against a culture overrun with weapons of mass seduction. While many factors contributing to the misguided messages received by children stand outside the realm of parental control-music videos, film, fashion-others, like the meaning of true love, can, and should be fostered at home. Eric and Leslie Ludy, authors of the bestselling When God Writes Your Love Story, present the shocking, unvarnished realities of today's sexual climate but they balance the bitter pill with a large dose of hopeful, practical advice for parents.
High School
TrueU
Dr. Del Tackett & Dr. Introduction to apologetics a defense of belief in God. =HYPERLINK("http://www.trueu.org/","http://www.trueu.org/") Stephen Meyer
High School
Habitudes Series
Tim Elmore
This book is ideal for college first-year experience programs, introductory leadership courses, and anyone who is just starting on their leadership journey. Many schools are using this book to challenge their entire student body to become leaders and to nurture a thriving leadership culture on their campus and organization. The Art of Self-Leadership covers the following topics: Character Balance Time Management Core Values Mental Toughness Discipline Identity & Strengths Integrity Checks Commitment Emotional Security Personal Networks Responsibility Personal Growth The faith-based version of this resource has been developed as a tool for Christian schools and ministries. It includes a "Look at the Book" section that gives a biblical illustration for each leadership principle as well as additional discussion questions based on the scripture reference. Target Age Range: 16-24 years old Also available is the Values-Based Edition of this resource, for public programs and corporate settings.
High School
Courageous Teens
Michael Catt and Amy Parker
Courageous Teens is a student-focused presentation of Courageous Living by Michael Catt, senior pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church and executive producer of the hit film Courageous. Teen readers will be inspired to resolve to live for God as they learn more about Abraham, Moses, Nehemiah, Ruth, Daniel, and many more. Amy Parker arranges the heart-stirring material into four categories: Courageous Faith, Courageous Leadership, Courageous Priorities, and Courageous Influence. Discussion questions are also included at the end of each chapter.
High School
Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
Joshua Harris
Illustrates how biblical courtship—a healthy, joyous alternative to recreational dating—worked for him and his wife. Boy Meets Girl presents an inspiring, practical example for readers wanting to pursue the possibility of marriage with someone they may be serious about.
High School
Give Them Wings
Carol Kuykendall
Practical approaches for helping parents of children who will soon be leaving the nest. http://www.carolkuykendall.com/
High School
Sex & the New You: For Young Men 13-15 (Learning about Sex)
Rich Bimler
Sex and the New You, the fourth book in the Learning About Sex series, helps boys age 13 to 15 build confidence as they begin to mature both physically and psychologically. From preschoolers to adults, the updated and revised Learning About Sex series makes the awesome gift of sexuality understandable to all.
High School
The Bondage Breaker® Youth Edition
Neil T. Anderson and Give teens powerful guidance on Christ-centered living in today's pressure-cooker world. Youth will discover how to break the habits Dave Park and bonds that lead to sin and rely on the Holy Spirit to avoid deception. Revealing the traps that will come their way, The Bondage Breaker® Youth Edition helps teens strip away superficiality and provides specific steps to achieving true freedom.
High School
Changes That Heal: How to understand your Dr. Henry Cloud past to ensure a Healthier Future
In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Cloud takes the reader step-by-step through the four basic tasks of becoming mature image bearers of God: Bonding to others - Separating from others - Sorting out good and bad in ourselves and others - Becoming an adult
Parenting
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No Fear Guide for First Time Parents: Important Things You Need to Know Before Bringing Baby Home
Grace Church of Overland Park Focus on the Family
This reference guide is a must-have for all expectant parents. Packed with up-to-date medical information and advice, this book also contains detailed descriptions of the events leading up to delivery. Though aimed at first-time parents, this guide is a helpful reference for all parents of newborns during the child's first three months.
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You And Your Child: A Biblical Guide For Nurturing Confident Children From Infancy to Independence
Charles R. Swindoll
Best-selling author and veteran parent and grandparent Charles Swindoll believes that the key to successful parenting lies in becoming a "student" of your children-learning the distinct bent and blueprint of each child. Here is practical advice for parents wishing to launch confident, capable young adults in today's ever-changing world.
Parenting
Parenting: From Surviving to Thriving: Building Healthy Families in a Changing World
Charles R. Swindoll
Marriage, children and family have been lifelong priorities for Charles Swindoll. Based on his extensive study of both the Old and New Testaments, Chuck has drawn together those timeless insights for building close and rewarding family relationships. Following a biblical exploration of God's purpose and plans for families, readers are equipped with all the tools necessary to grow strong healthy families. Chuck then takes a clear-eyed look at those areas where parents and families often experience difficulties. In typical Swindoll fashion, these discussions are frank and direct but always leave the reader filled with hope and encouragement.
Parenting
Bringing up Boys
Dr. James Dobson
Sensible advice and caring encouragement on raising boys from the nation's most trusted parenting expert, Dr.James Dobson. With so much confusion about the role of men in our society, it's no wonder so many parents and teachers are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Our culture has vilified masculinity and, as a result, boys are suffering. Parents, teachers, and others involved in shaping the character of boys have lots of questions. In Bringing Up Boys, Dr. Dobson tackles these questions and offers advice and encouragement based on a firm foundation of biblical principles.
Parenting
Bringing Up Girls: Practical Advice and Dr. James Dobson Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Women
As a parent, how are you guiding your daughter on her journey to womanhood? Are you equipping her to make wise choices? Whether she’s still playing with dolls or in the midst of the often-turbulent teen years, is she truly secure in her identity as your valued and loved daughter? In the New York Times bestseller Bringing Up Girls, parenting authority and trusted family counselor Dr. James Dobson will help you face the challenges of raising your daughters to become strong, healthy, and confident women who excel in life.
Parenting
The NEW Strong-Willed Child: Birth Through Dr. James Dobson Adolescence
Dr. James Dobson has completely rewritten, updated, and expanded his classic best seller The Strong-Willed Child for a new generation of parents and teachers. The New Strong-Willed Child follows on the heels of Dr. Dobson's phenomenal best seller Bringing Up Boys. It offers practical how-to advice on raising difficult-to-handle children and incorporates the latest research with Dr. Dobson's legendary wit and wisdom. The New Strong-Willed Child is being rushed to press for parents needing help dealing with sibling rivalry, adhd, low self-esteem, and other important issues. This book is a must-read for parents and teachers struggling to raise and teach children who are convinced they should be able to live by their own rules!
Parenting
The New Dare to Discipline
Dr. James Dobson
Why are boundaries so important? Do children really want limits set on their behavior? Is it okay to spank my child, or will it lead him to hit others and become a violent person? Join the millions of caring parents who have found much-needed answers to their questions in the wisdom of parenting expert and family counselor Dr. James Dobson. The New Dare to Discipline is a revised and updated edition of the classic bestseller, designed to help you lead your children through the tough job of growing up. This practical, reassuring guide will teach you how to meet your children’s needs of love, trust, affection—and discipline.
Parenting
Parenting Isn't for Cowards: Dealing Confidently With the Frustrations of ChildRearing
Dr. James Dobson
Parenting
Hide or Seek: How to Build Self-Esteem in Your Child
Dr. James Dobson
A practical guide for parents and teachers to help them raise self-confident, healthy children, through the application of twelve comprehensive strategies.
Parenting
Building Confidence in Your Child
Dr. James Dobson
Over the past thirty years, more than a million parents and teachers have benefited from Dr. James Dobson's insightful counsel in his classic Hide or Seek. This book provides a new generation of parents with practical pointers for raising self-confident, healthy children with solid self-esteem.
Parenting
Dr. Dobson's Handbook of Family Advice: Encouragement and Practical Help for Your Home
Dr. James Dobson
Families worldwide seek the godly guidance of respected counselor and internationally recognized radio host Dr. James Dobson. Now in this helpful collection, families young and old have quick access to Dr. Dobson's advice and wisdom to nurture their marriages and children with love, grace, and biblical preparedness.
Parenting
Age of Opportunity A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens
Paul David Tripp
Are you hoping to merely survive your teenagers? With compassion, wit, and wisdom, Tripp uncovers the heart issues affecting families during the often-chaotic adolescent years.
Parenting
To Train up a Child
Michael and Debi Pearl
This is a controversial book but I thought it has some good points to pray about, praying scriptures over your children, the power of a praying parent.
Parenting
Not on Our Watch
Cavin Harper
Together, we can directly impact the eternal destiny of another generation.
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Parenting
It Takes A Parent
Betsy Hart
How the culture of pushover parenting is hurting our kids and what to do about it
Parenting
Biblical Parenting Website
Co- Founders Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN
Four Goals That Will Maximize Your Parenting • • •Be Practical, Focus on the Heart, Be Biblical and Look for Adult Solutions to Children's Problems. =HYPERLINK("http://biblicalparenting.org/"," biblicalparenting.org.")
Parenting
Children Learn What They Live
Dorothy lawn Nolte
Simple but powerful guide to parenting the old-fashioned way: instilling values through example. Positive, realistic, filled with a rare common sense, it is a book to help parents find their own parenting wisdom, and to raise children with a surer, steadier, more understanding hand.
Parenting
Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...
Reggie Joiner
What would happen if the church and families combined their efforts to create a revolutionary strategy to affect the lives of children.
Parenting
Visionary Parenting: Capture a God-Sized Vision for Your Family
Rob Rienow
Readers will capture a fresh, God-sized vision for their family. It begins with understanding God's purpose for the family and taking an honest look at the current state of the home. The author shares foundational truth that God created the family to ensure that the next generation grows up to know, love, and serve Him. He reminds readers of the instructions from God given to parents in Deuteronomy 6:5-7 that will transform your home.
Parenting
Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls
Gary Thomas
This is not a 'how-to' book that teaches you ways to discipline your kids or help them achieve their full potential. Instead of discussing how parents can change their kids, Sacred Parenting turns the tables and demonstrates how God uses our kids to change us. You've read all the method books. Now take a step back and receive some much-needed inspiration. You'll be encouraged by stories that tell how other parents handled the challenges and difficulties of being a parent---and how their children transformed their relationship with God. Sacred Parenting affirms the spiritual value of being a parent, showing you the holy potential of the parent-child relationship.
Parenting
Six Ways to Keep the "Little" in Your Girl: Guiding Your Daughter from Her Tweens to Her Teens (Secret Keeper Girl Series)
Dannah Gresh
Bestselling author, speaker, and founder of the Secret Keeper Girl conferences, Dannah Gresh shares with moms the secret to helping today's girls grow up confident, grace-filled, and strong in their faith.
Parenting
It Takes a Parent: How the Culture of Betsy Hart Pushover Parenting Is Hurting Our Childrenand What to DoAbout it
Syndicated columnist and mother of four Betsy Hart presents a passionate, provocative argument against today's "parenting culture"-parents who put their kids on a pedestal, shy away from discipline, and cede the power to take decisions, large and small, to their children. Covering hot topics, from spanking and discipline to giving kids way too many choices, this commonsense book shifts the focus back to the role and responsibilities of parents for guiding the character and hearts of their children, so they'll grow up to be responsible adults themselves.
Parenting
ApParent Privilege
Steve Wright and Chris Graves
Parents have the greatest privilege of their lives literally in front of them everyday: their children. Pointing their children to Christ, modeling faith, encouraging with words, and showing unfailing love isn t a burden. It s a privilege. Apparent Privilege will arm parents with biblical understanding and up-to-the-minute research to show them the unparalleled opportunity they have to be the primary influence of their children. It will give parents a biblical view of parenting, answer questions and concerns we all have, and help them understand how Christian parenting must become more than taking your children to church. In short, this book will equip a parent live a life where the difference is apparent.
Parenting
Don't Make Me Count to Three
Ginger Plowman
Do you find yourself threatening, repeating your instructions, or raising your voice in an attempt to get your children to obey? Are you discouraged because it seems you just can't reach the heart of your child? Through personal experience and the practical application of Scripture, Ginger Plowman encouraged and equips moms to reach past the outward behavior of their children and dive deeply into the issues of the heart. Ginger's candid approach will help moms move beyond the frustrations of not knowing how to handle issues of disobedience and into a confident, well-balanced approach to raising their children.
Parenting
Good and Angry: Exchanging Frustration for Scott Turansky Character in You and Your Kids!
Recognizing the very real emotions parents feel, Good and Angry taps into the constructive side of parents’ anger and teaches welcome strategies for addressing the things their children do to drive them crazy. Addressing common problem areas for children–such as annoying behavior, lying, not following instructions, and bad attitudes–this book outlines seven routines that will help children improve in these areas and allow them to thrive in their relationship with parents and with others.
Parenting
Wise Words for Moms Pamphlet/Chart
Wise Words for Moms is an answer to one of the most frequently asked questions, "How can I find passages of Scripture that will enable me to address heart issues?" Ginger Plowman has identified.
Ginger Plowman
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Author John Younts
Description
Parenting
Everyday Talk: Talking Freely and Naturally about God with Your Children
God first gave specific instructions for being a parent in Deuteronomy 6. He instructs parents to talk to their children everyday about God and His ways. Everyday Talk offers practical, creative ways to do that. Learn how to use ordinary conversations to show your kids the goodness and wisdom of God. With clear biblical teaching, John Younts illustrates how to lead your children into a greater awareness of the presence and glory of God.
Parenting
Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Voddie Baucham Jr. Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God
Family Driven Faith equips Christian parents with the tools they need to raise children biblically in a post-Christian, antifamily society. Voddie Baucham, who with his wife has overcome a multigenerational legacy of broken and dysfunctional homes, shows that God has not left us alone in raising godly children.
Parenting
Setting Boundaries® with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
Allison Bottke
Writing from firsthand experience, Allison identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her son in bondage--and how she overcame them. Additional real life stories from other parents are woven through the text. A tough-love book to help readers cope with dysfunctional adult children, it will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.--a six-step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives.
Parenting
The Power of a Praying® Parent Book of Prayers (Power of a Praying Book of Prayers)
Stormie Omartian
This gathering of sixty inspiring prayers and scriptures is small enough to keep in purse or pocket for quick times of connection with God. With room to write down personal prayers, readers will discover confidence and peace in their parenting skills as they learn to pray for their children in a life-changing way.
Parenting
The Power of Praying® for Your Adult Children
Stormie Omartian
Stormie Omartian addresses the areas of concern parents have for their grown children and shares how to lift them up to God. With stories from other parents and insight gleaned from personal experience, Stormie helps parents pray with the power of God's Word over their adult children and their
Parenting
Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future
Tim Elmore
The one book every parent, teacher, coach, and youth pastor should read. This landmark book paints a compelling-and soberingpicture of what could happen to our society if we don't change the way we relate to today's teens and young adults. Researchedbased and solution-biased, it moves beyond sounding an alarm to outlining practical strategies to: * Guide "stuck" adolescents and at-risk boys to productive adulthood * Correct crippling parenting styles * Repair damage from (unintentional) lies we've told kids * Guide them toward real success instead of superficial "self-esteem" * Adopt education strategies that engage (instead of bore) an "i" generation * Pull youth out of their "digital" ghetto into the real world * Employ their strengths and work with their weaknesses on the job * Defuse a worldwide demographic time bomb * Equip Generation iY to lead us into the future
Parenting
Artificial Maturity: Helping Kids Meet the Challenge of Becoming Authentic Adults
Tim Elmore
Today's Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and paradoxically are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. Artificial Maturity addresses the problem of what to do when parents and teachers mistake children's superficial knowledge for real maturity. The book is filled with practical steps that adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their abilities with authentic maturity.
Parenting
Nurturing the Leader Within Your Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know
Tim Elmore and John Informative, challenging and often humorous, this work explores mentoring the basic types of children and provides real-life C. Maxwell insights on how to help them reach their full potential. Whether you have a driver , a diplomat , or a dreamer , you need to give your child permission to dream big and to dream right. Nurturing the Leader Within Your Child provides the tools for parents who want more than average for their children and who seek to inspire the pursuit of vision larger than they are.
Parenting
The Millennials: Connecting to America's Largest Generation
Thom S. Rainer
At more than 78 million strong, the Millennials—those born between 1980 and 2000—have surpassed the Boomers as the larger and more influential generation in America. Now, as its members begin to reach adulthood, where the traits of a generation really take shape, best-selling research author Thom Rainer (Simple Church) and his son Jess (a Millennial born in 1985) present the first major investigative work on Millennials from a Christian worldview perspective. The Millennials is based on 1200 interviews with its namesakes that aim to better understand them personally, professionally, and spiritually. The authors close with a thoughtful response to how the church can engage and minister to what is now in fact the largest generation in America’s history.
Parenting
What the Bible Says About Child Training
J. Richard Fugate
This material is unique in that the subject is handled solely from the Biblical viewpoint. The author accepts the Bible as absolute truth and as infinitely superior to any human system of thinking. There has been no attempt to modify God's word to make it compatible with human philosophies, psychology, sociology, religious views, or public opinion.
Parenting
Boys! Shaping Ordinary Boys Into Extraordinary Men
William Beausay II
In this expanded and revised edition, Beausay takes a hard look at some of the issues facing parents today, including raising boys solo, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, smart discipline, handling bullies, and much more. With down-to-earth wisdom and practical suggestions, Beausay equips parents to deal with the tough issues that their sons will encounter on their journey to manhood.
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Shaping the Next Generation: Helping Parents Seize Their Brief Window of Opportunity
David and Elaine Atchison
Today's parents are constantly asking themselves, "Am I doing enough for my children? Do I have enough influence to make sure they turn out right?" Because we have bought into the myth that parents have less influence on their children than schools, media, government, or the church, many parents have relinquished their brief window of opportunity to make a difference. "Shaping the Next Generation" helps parents grasp God's vision for their children and design an intentional character-building strategy that really works. Parents discover effective ways to nurture and discipline children up to age twelve, learning how to balance instruction and correction in the discipline process. Charts, worksheets, sidebars, and appendices offer further resources for helping parents disciple their children and pass the faith on for generations to come.
Parenting
Growing Up God's Way
John A. Stormer
John Stormer's goal is to challenge parents to love their children and then train them so that others will love them too. His book is based on his experience as a husband, father and grandfather and his work with hundreds of families during fifteen years as a pastor and Christian school superintendent. GETTING CHILDREN READY FOR SCHOOL AND LIFE has to start at birth and it can never stop. Following World War II a generation of parents lost sight of that truth and the tragedies have been multiplying ever since. GROWING UP GOD'S WAY documents how child-rearing methods have changed and the tragic problems which result when children "just grow up." By examining the methods used by successful dedicated parents in history and during Bible times. John Stormer gives today's parents a vision of what they can accomplish in their children's lives. Step-by-step instructions for training children from birth to age five are followed by practical principles which will help parents build happy successful Christian lives for themselves and stable, satisfying, solvent marriages and homes for each other.
Parenting
Right From Wrong
Josh McDowell
According to Josh McDowell, our children are being raised in a society that has largely rejected the concepts of truth and morality. In Right From Wrong , McDowell offers hope and provides families and the church with a sound, thorough, biblical and workable method to clearly understand and defend the truth.
Parenting
How To Be a Hero To Your Kids
Josh McDowell
You don't have to be a super-parent to be a hero to your kids. All it takes is love, motivation and a workable plan. Josh McDowell and Dick Day offer a six-point, biblically-based plan for positive parenting that will set you on the path to being a hero to your child.
Parenting
Successful Christian Parenting: Raising Your John MacArthur Child with Care, Compassion and Common Sense
Parenting
Kid CEO : How to Keep Your Children from Running Your Life
Parenting
Raising Kids Who Hunger for God
This is a great book. Different then most parenting books. It's focus is not on how to make your kids behave. It is about how to make your children understand their faith so that they have their own desire to behave.
Ed Young and Cliff McNeely
Benny and Sheree Phillips Coaching Your Kids to be Leaders: The Keys Pat Williams to Unlocking Their Potential
Biblical principles for raising kids who want to love, know, and follow God.
Parenting
Raising Kids for True Greatness: Redefine Success for You and Your Child
Tim Kimmel
What about greatness? Where does it fit in? "If you aim your children at anything less than greatness, you'll set them up to miss the whole point of their lives," says author Tim Kimmel. In Raising Kids for True Greatness , Kimmel turns the definition of success on its head and guides you in preparing your child for a life that will easily eclipse the goals of those who are merely successful.
Parenting
Spiritual Parenting: An Awakening for Today’s Families
Michelle Anthony
In Spiritual Parenting parents learn to create a home environment that God can use to work in their children’s lives. It’s a biblical, innovative fresh approach to parenting—and one that’s long overdue.
Parenting
Rite of Passage Parenting: Four Essential Experiences to Equip Your Kids for Life
Walker Moore
If you are concerned about the effects of the current cultural chaos; if you notice in your children a lack of responsibility, the lack of a good work ethic, disrespect for authority; if you are worried that your children may experiment with false rites of passageprofanity, smoking, drugs, alcohol, body piercing, or sex-let Walker Moore show you how to provide the four essential experiences most children are missing.
Parenting
The Family Matters Handbook
Dr. Kevin Leman, Frank Minirth & William Sears
This wise and timely handbook brings together a wide array of well-known and well-respected Christian authors--including Dr. Kevin Leman, Zig Ziglar, Gary Smalley, John Trent, and Dr. Grace Ketterman--who share insights on the many aspects of building strong, healthy families.
Parenting
In COACHING YOUR KIDS TO BE LEADERS, Pat Williams takes the seven principles of leadership and applies them to the challenge of building young leaders. The essence of a leader is embodied in these seven important qualities: Vision, Communication, People Skills, Character, Competence, Boldness, Servanthood. Young people can be inspired and motivated to build them into their lives. This is an invaluable tool for those committed to building leadership skills in the children they care for.
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Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days
Have a New Kid by Friday shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in their children--fast! With his signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers them hope and real, practical, doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always wanted to be. Focusing on changing a child's attitude, behavior, and character, this book contains chapters for each day of the week, as well as a special section with advice on everything from rolling eyes to sibling rivalry to talking back to punching walls--and much, much more. This helpful section of more than 100 specific topics is indexed, allowing parents to flip immediately to any areas of concern for witty, straightforward, and gutsy plans of action.
Parenting
Single Parenting that Works: Six Keys to Kevin Leman Raising Happy, Healthy Children in a SingleParent Home
Being a parent is challenging enough. Being a single parent can seem downright impossible--until now. Drawing on material from his successful Single Parenting That Works curriculum guide and video series, America's favorite parenting expert, Dr. Kevin Leman, brings help and hope to the legions of single parents struggling to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted children in a loving, caring and biblically grounded way. Using his trademark quirky, no-nonsense approach, Dr. Leman shows parents how to build healthy, mature relationships with their former spouses, how to develop their children's self-esteem, and how to discipline and relate to their kids in accordance with their unique God-given personalities. Features: Building stability for your children by getting your own life in order. How forgiveness opens the door to healthy relationships Learning to deal with your "ex" with an olive branch rather than a hammer Dating and remarriage Helping your child thrive in a single parent home.
Parenting
Single Parenting That Works: Six Keys to Dr. Kevin Leman Raising Happy, Healthy Children in a SingleParent Home
Being a parent is challenging enough. Being a single parent can seem downright impossible--until now. Drawing on material from his successful Single Parenting That Works curriculum guide and video series, America's favorite parenting expert, Dr. Kevin Leman, brings help and hope to the legions of single parents struggling to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted children in a loving, caring and biblically grounded way. Using his trademark quirky, no-nonsense approach, Dr. Leman shows parents how to build healthy, mature relationships with their former spouses, how to develop their children's self-esteem, and how to discipline and relate to their kids in accordance with their unique God-given personalities. Features: Building stability for your children by getting your own life in order. How forgiveness opens the door to healthy relationships Learning to deal with your "ex" with an olive branch rather than a hammer Dating and remarriage Helping your child thrive in a single parent home
Parenting
Making Children Mind without Losing Yours
Dr. Kevin Leman
Raising children these days can be daunting. But if anyone understands why children behave the way they do, it's Dr. Kevin Leman. Equipping parents with seven principles of Reality Discipline--a loving no-nonsense parenting approach that really works.
Parenting
Birth Order Book, The: Why You Are the Way You Are
Dr. Kevin Leman
With insight and wit, Dr. Leman offers readers a fascinating and often funny look at how birth order affects personality, marriage and relationships, parenting style, career, and children. Birth order powerfully influences the way people interact with others, whether they're at home or on the job. This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about how they react to their world. Dr. Leman even shows readers how to overcome ingrained tendencies they never thought they'd be rid of, all by focusing on their birth order.
Parenting
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Hal and Conn Iggulden
The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is.
Parenting
The Daring Book for Girls
Meriam Peskowitz
The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers—although that's included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.
Parenting
5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son
Vicki Courtney
For parents with boys newborn to eighteen, 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son will be as much a part of the boyhood journey as those Legos you're still finding under the sofa cushions and the garage full of sports equipment. Award-winning youth culture commentator Vicki Courtney helps moms and dads pinpoint and prepare the discussions that should be ongoing in a boy's formative years.
Parenting
Creative Correction
Lisa Whelchel
Drawing from her own family's experiences and from interaction with other parents, Lisa Whelchel offers creative solutions for parents who are out of ideas and desperate for new, proven approaches to discipline. In addition to advice on topics such as sibling conflict and lying, Whelchel offers a biblical perspective and down-to-earth encouragement to parents who are feeling overwhelmed. A handy reference guide that provides ideas for specific situations rounds out this resource that will be a blessing to parents and their children.
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Wild at Heart Revised & Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
John Eldridge
John Eldredge revises and updates his best-selling, renowned Christian classic, Wild at Heart , and in it invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God. And he invites women to discover the secret of a man’s soul and to delight in the strength and wildness men were created to offer. John Eldredge is the director of Ransomed Heart
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Family Life Issues
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
Marc Weissbluth
Step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. http://www.drweissbluth.com/
Family Life Issues
On Becoming Babywise Series (Baby Wise, Baby Wise Two, Toddler Wise, Preschool Wise
MA GARY EZZO
Four Books from the Parent Wise Series. Includes the following titles: ON BECOMING BABY WISE: The exciting infant managemnt plan that successfully and naturally helps infants to synchronize their feeding/waketime and nighttime sleep cycles. ON BECOMING BABY WISE TWO: Parenting your pretoddler from five to fifteen months. ON BECOMING TODDLER WISE: Parenting the second year from first steps to Potty Trraining. ON BECOMING PRESCHOOL WISE: Optimizing Educational Outcomes. What Preschoolers Need to learn - helping parents create the right opportunities and best environment to optimize their child's learning potential.
Family Life Issues
Elf-Help Books for Kids
Christine Adams and Elf-help Books for Kids - Addressing the needs of children and the adults who care for them. Robert J. Butch
Family Life Issues
The New Hide or Seek: Building Self-Esteem Dr. James Dobson in Your Child
A practical guide for parents and teachers to help them raise self-confident, healthy children, through the application of twelve comprehensive strategies.
Family Life Issues
War of Words: Getting to the Heart of Your Communication Struggles (Resources for Changing Lives) Married with Special-Needs Children: A Couples' Guide to Keeping Connected
Paul David Tripp
An important and biblical book about our words and our God. Few of us really think about the power, the blessing, the gift, the effect, and the danger of our words. This book will make you think before you speak.
Laura E. Marshak
At last, a guide that speaks to parents about how to work on marital issues while juggling the demands of raising a child with a developmental disability, serious medical condition, or mental illness. In writing this practical, empathetic guide, the authors draw on their combined professional experience in marital counseling and parent training, as well as on the experience and advice of hundreds of parents of children with special needs.
Special Needs
Finding Your Child's Way on the Autism Spectrum: Discovering Unique Strengths, Mastering Behavior Challenges
Laura Hendrickson
There are many books available on how to cure an autistic preschooler, but none on how to raise one to adulthood. These promised cures raise parents' hopes, but most parents will find that they are dealing with a lifelong challenge no matter what they do. Dr. Laura Hendrickson is a trained psychiatrist, biblical counselor--and the mother of an autistic child. She understands the struggles parents face as they try to communicate with their autism spectrum child and manage behavior challenges.
Special Needs
An Unexpected Joy: The Gift of Parenting a Challenging Child
Mary Sharp
Dr. Mary Sharp shares her grief, anger, depression, and now acceptance of her son's autism. This memoir offers parents of autistic children: A sense that someone else knows what you’re going through, Help in dealing with the inevitable emotional and spiritual struggles and Insights into pitfalls to avoid and issues to address.
Special Needs
Life Not Typical: How Special Needs Parenting Changed My Faith and My Song
Jennifer Shaw
Special Needs
Different Dream Parenting: A Practical Guide to Raising a Child with Special Needs
Jolene Philo
Parenting can be difficult and tiring, especially when you have a special needs child with medical, behavioral, or educational issues. In Different Dream Parenting, author Jolene Philo offers guidance and encouragement through biblical insights and her own personal experiences. Find spiritual wisdom, practical resources, and tools that can help you become an extraordinary advocate for your child. Discover how you can move beyond the challenges and experience the joy of being your childs biggest and best supporter.
Fatherhood
RAISING A MODERN-DAY KNIGHT
ROBERT LEWIS
Beginning with a biblical perspective of manhood, author-pastor Robert Lewis shares a unique approach to shaping a boy into a man by equipping him with three essential elements: a vision, a code of conduct, and a transcendent cause (Christianity) in which to invest his life.
Special Needs
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Fathered by God: Learning What Your Dad Could Never Teach You
John Eldridge
John Eldredge calls men back to a simple and reassuring truth: God is our Father. In life's trials and triumphs, God is initiating boys and men through the stages of manhood from Beloved Son to Cowboy to Warrior to Lover to King to Sage.
Fatherhood
The Way of the Wild Heart
John Eldridge
The Way of the Wild Heart reaches out to "unfinished men" trying to understand and live their role as men and fathers. Exploring six biblically based stages, John Eldredge initiates men into a new understanding and ownership of their manhood and equips them to effectively lead their sons to manhood. http://ransomedheart.com/
Fatherhood
Bound for Glory: A Practical Handbook For Raising A Victorious Family
R.C. Sproul, Jr.
The importance of leading families in a covenantal relationship with God. R. C. Sproul, Jr., then discusses the implications of this covenantal relationship for husbands, wives, children, and the church family. He speaks especially to men as the leaders in their households. http://www.ligonier.org/
Fatherhood
A Call to Arms
Chuck Black
There is a spiritual war being waged for our families. Our adversary is strong and we are in enemy territory. Chuck’s latest book is a military-style handbook to encourage Dads to make a stand for their families.
Fatherhood
King Me: What Every Son Wants and Needs Steve Farrar from His Father
Using kings of the Old Testament as character studies, Steve Farrar examines the critical role a father plays in preparing his son to become a godly man. What separated the good kings from the bad kings was a father who made time commitments to mentor his son, by modeling biblical manhood. Do you want your son to become a man of regal character? Then this book is for you!
Fatherhood
Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family
Steve Farrar
This bestselling classic encourages and equips Christian men to lead their families successfully through hazards and ambushes like divorce, promiscuity, suicide, and drug addiction. Men will find practical insight on topics such as a father's influence, maintaining purity, and husband-and-wife teamwork. In this war, renowned men's author Steve Farrar emphasizes, Jesus Christ is looking for men who will not die, but live for their families.
Fatherhood
Finishing Strong: Going the Distance for Your Family
Steve Farrar
Bestselling author Steve Farrar has good news for the average man: it doesn't matter if you've had a great start in the Christian life, or a rough one. It doesn't matter if you've stumbled time and again, or even fallen flat on your face. What matters most in this all-important race of life is how you finish. According to Farrar, the man who hangs in there for the long haul with his wife, his kids, and his Lord is an exception these days. Finishing Strong, now in trade paperback, offers lively use of Scripture, contemporary illustrations, and study questions to equip every reader to be that exception. For the man who wants to climb the character ladder more than the corporate one, this is an essential tool.
Fatherhood
The Father Connection: How You Can Make the Difference in Your Child's Self-Esteem and Sense of Purpose
Josh McDowell
Updated and redesigned for a new generation of dads, Josh McDowell’s ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner The Father Connection looks at ten parenting qualities inspired by the ultimate model of fatherhood. Embracing these godly characteristics will make all the difference in a child, boosting self-esteem and sense of purpose.
Fatherhood
Better Dads, Stronger Sons: How Fathers Can Guide Boys to Become Men of Character
Rick Johnson
The relationship between a father and a son is like none other. Dads have a God-given role to protect and provide for their families, always striving to teach their sons the life skills they'll need to grow into honorable men. But many dads struggle with feelings of inadequacy regarding their fathering abilities. They want to be better dads.
Motherhood Raising a Modern-Day Princess
Pam Ferrel and Doreen Hanna
In the same tradition as Raising a Modern-Day Knight, this book is designed to equip parents to cultivate strong relationships with their adolescents. Raising a Modern-Day Princess stresses the importance of creating a rite of passage for teen girls--a defining moment in which girls can be blessed by significant adults in their lives, and a call for their families and communities to celebrate and support them as they enter womanhood. This book offers practical help in raising a generation of women to see themselves as God sees them--as daughters of the King.
Motherhood Your Girl: Raising a Godly Daughter in an Ungodly World
Vicki Courtney
If you are the mother of a daughter eighteen years old or younger, especially one in the tween or teen years, you know that you are in a war for her mind, body, and soul. Best-selling author Vicki Courtney’s Your Girl addresses the times in which our daughters live, the high calling of motherhood, and the necessity to enter the battle to counteract negative influences of the culture.
Motherhood Five Conversations You Must Have with Your Vicki Courtney Daughter
For mothers with girls newborn to eighteen, Five Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter is simply a must-have book. Youth culture commentator Vicki Courtney helps moms pinpoint and prepare the discussions that should be ongoing in their daughters' formative years.
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Motherhood Your Boy: Raising a Godly Son in an Ungodly World
Vicki Courtney
If you are the mother of a son eighteen years old or younger, especially one in the tween or teen years, then you know that you are in a war for his mind, body, and soul. From his very first step to his first big steps into manhood, the things of this world relentlessly compete for his attention.
Motherhood What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life
Dr. Kevin Leman
Every mom wants the best for her son. She wants him to succeed in life, to be a man of character, to find a good woman, to be a great dad. But sometimes boys are hard for moms to understand. Sometimes they're strange, annoying, and downright disgusting! Yet always they need a mother who is engaged and interested in them, because a mom is the most important person in a boy's life. lay the groundwork that will allow her son to grow into a good man. Armed with Dr. Leman's expert advice and insight, Mom will gain an understanding of her boy at every stage, from that very first diaper change to the moment he leaves for college. Dr. Leman shows how to discipline a boy, how to command respect, how to let him fight his own battles, how to understand his sexuality, and how to weather the changes in the mother-son relationship as he grows up. Most of all, Leman shows Mom how to lighten up and have some fun along the way with that boy who will always have her heart.
Motherhood That's My Son: How Moms Can Influence Boys to Become Men of Character
Rick Johnson
A mother's influence on her sons is unique and valuable, but still sometimes moms don't understand what makes their boys tick. They want to help their sons grow up to become men of honor and integrity, but that's a tremendous challenge. With refreshing honesty and a man's insight, author Rick Johnson offers the advice, understanding, and support every mom is looking for when it comes to raising godly sons. Using extensive research and humorous personal experiences, he addresses tough issues, such as communication, discipline, sexuality, and respect.
Motherhood That's My Teenage Son: How Moms Can Influence Their Boys to Become Good Men
Rick Johnson
The teen years are a vital stage for a boy as he develops into a man. But these years can also make moms feel like they have lost influence in their sons' lives. Friends and media pull one way while Mom pulls the other. How can a mom be sure she is doing everything she can to help her son grow into a mature and responsible adult?
Motherhood Passionate Housewives Desperate for God
Jennie Chancey and Stacy McDonald
Have you struggled to reconcile God's vision of virtuous womanhood with worldly myths that marginalize and mock the role of the homemaker? Do you wrestle with cultural messages that demean the homemaker s calling and exalt instead the emotionally androgynous power-woman---the wife whose worth is measured only by the degree of her self-ambition, the shape of her body, or her money-making skills? Delightfully fresh and honest, Passionate Housewives Desperate for God debunks the modern 'desperate housewife' myth and provides fresh vision for the homemaker. Hear a former Christian feminist share how she went from a die-hard homemaker-in-training to a dedicated career woman, and then back again---after God gripped her heart. See the hollow counterfeit of whitewashed feminism and me-ology destroyed. And consider the beautiful picture painted in Scripture of the truly fulfilled homemaker who glories in the hopeful calling God created for her. Mothers, including single moms as well as grandmothers and teachers, will find wise counsel and reassurance in this practical and helpful book.
Motherhood The Excellent Wife: A Biblical Perspective
Martha Pearce
Here is a scripturally based blueprint for the woman who truly desires to be the wife God intended her to be. This book is based on Proverbs 31:10: An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels." Thousands of women have already discovered the worth of this volume and testify to lives and marriages changed because of a commitment to the principles presented here. If this is a commitment you have made, or want to make, The Excellent Wife answers the difficult questions facing you today. Mothers, including single moms as well as grandmothers and teachers, will find wise counsel and reassurance in this practical and helpful book.
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Your Marriage Can Survive a Newborn
Natalie Williams
As exciting as having a baby can be, the birth of a child brings new tensions and stress to a couple's relationship. Written from personal experience as well as countless conversations with parents, Your Marriage Can Survive a Newborn offers couples hope and encouragement. This book is not about parenting a newborn; it's about helping your relationship grow and survive during what some parents describe as one of the most challenging yet rewarding times of their lives.
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Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage
Marriage
Intimacy Ignited: Conversations Couple to Dr. Joseph Dillow, Couple: Fire Up Your Sex Life with the Song Linda Dillow, Dr. of Solomon Peter Pintus and Lorraine Pintus Intimate Issues: Twenty-One Questions Linda Dillow and Christian Women Ask About Sex Lorraine Pintus
Looking for more romance in your marriage? by studying the Song of Solomon, you'll get a timeless look at God's design for love in marriage. This verse-by-verse Bible study of the Song of Solomon can strengthen your relationship with your husband or wife.
Marriage
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Dr. Emerson Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs Eggerichs
Based on over three decades of counseling, as well as scientific and biblical research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs and his wife, Sarah, have already taken the Love and Respect message across America and are changing the way couples talk to, think about, and treat each other. What do you want for your marriage? Want some peace? Want to feel close? Want to feel valued? Want to experience marriage the way God intended? Then why not try some Love and Respect.
Marriage
His Needs, Her Needs: Building an AffairProof Marriage
Willard F. Jr. Harley
In the classic bestseller His Needs, Her Needs , Willard F. Harley, Jr., identifies the ten most vital needs of men and women and shows husbands and wives how to satisfy those needs in their spouses. He provides guidance for becoming irresistible to your spouse and for loving more creatively and sensitively, thereby eliminating the problems that often lead to extramarital affairs.
Marriage
Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy
Gary Thomas
Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with another person. It is a spiritual discipline designed to help you know God better, trust him more fully, and love him more deeply. Scores of books have been written that offer guidance for building the marriage of your dreams. But what if God's primary intent for your marriage isn't to make you happy. . . but holy? And what if your relationship isn't as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God? Everything about your marriage--everything--is filled with prophetic potential, with the capacity for discovering and revealing Christ's character. The respect you accord your partner; the forgiveness you humbly seek and graciously extend; the ecstasy, awe, and sheer fun of lovemaking; the history you and your spouse build with one another--in these and other facets of your marriage, Sacred Marriage uncovers the mystery of God's overarching purpose. This book may very well alter profoundly the contours of your marriage. It will most certainly change you. Because whether it is delightful or difficult, your marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with God, and to a spiritual integrity that, like salt, seasons the world around you with the savor of Christ.
Marriage
101 Conversation Starters for Couples
Ramon L. Presson and Gary D. Chapman
Your spouse is a unique person, filled with amazing insights, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Communication is key to really knowing and fully loving that person.
Marriage
Fierce Women: The Power of a Soft Warrior
Kimberly Wagner
Do you ever get the idea that being a godly wife means you need to be a mousy doormat? Be as unnoticeable as a doorknob? Or have a personality transplant? Fierce Women: The Power of a Soft Warrior, smashes that idea. No matter whether you're an extrovert or more introverted-Kimberly Wagner believes women are created to be a compelling force. You may not see yourself as beautifully fierce or even slightly strong, but what if God has placed a powerful fierceness within you, within every woman? Kim admits her fierceness became a source of conflict in her marriage, but the relationship dynamic totally changed when she discovered her fierce strengths could be used to encourage and inspire her husband. She invites you to come alongside as she takes an honest look at a destructive relationship dynamic and casts a vision for the transformation God can bring to troubled marriages.
Marriage
Kevin Leman
Description With his characteristic warmth and humor, Dr. Kevin Leman offers a practical guide to sex according to God's plan. This frank and practical book is a perfect resource for married and engaged couples. Dr. Leman addresses a wide spectrum of people, from those with no sexual experiences to those with past sexual problems or even abuse. Using frank descriptions, this book has a warm and friendly tone that will help couples overcome awkwardness in discussing an issue important to all married couples.
Intimate Issues answers the twenty-one questions about sex most frequently asked by Christian wives, as determined by a nationwide poll of over one thousand women. Written from the perspective of two mature Christian wives and Bible teachers–women who you’ll come to know as teachers and friends–Intimate Issues is biblical and informative: sometimes humorous, other times practical, but always honest. Through its solid teaching warm testimonials, scriptural insights, and experts’ advise, you’ll find resolution for your questions and fears, surprising insights about God’s perspective on sex, and a variety of practical and creative ideas for enhancing your physical relationship with the husband you love. With warmth and wisdom, authors Linda Dillow and Lorraine Pintus speak woman to woman: examining the teachings of Scripture, exposing the lies of the world, and offering real hope that every woman’s marriage relationship can become all it was intended to be in God’s design.
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Hope For the Separated: Wounded Marriages Can Be Healed
Gary D. Chapman
The unfortunate reality is that Christians are separating and divorcing at the same rate as the unbelieving world. But does separation have to mean the end? You may not feel like reconciling. You may not see hope for a reunion. But the biblical ideal for a separated couple is reconciliation. So how do you do it? When doors slam and angry words fly, when things just aren't working out, and even when your spouse has abandoned your trust, there is hope. Hope for the Separated will show you through God's Word that your marriage can be restored. Recognizing that restoration will not happen for everyone, Dr. Chapman also gives insightful advice for those who experience the pain of divorce.
Marriage
Desperate Marriages: Moving Toward Hope and Healing in Your Relationship
Gary D. Chapman
Countless couples today face major marital struggles. Dr. Gary Chapman communicates genuine hope for every marriage- even for those with deeply rooted wounds. Chapman provides positive steps for dealing with spouses who are: Workaholics Controlling Uncommunicative Physically, verbally, or sexually abusive Unfaithful Alcoholic or drug-abusing Depressed Irresponsible
Marriage
Shattered Vows: Hope and Healing for Women Who Have Been Sexually Betrayed
Debra Laaser
Infidelity doesn't have to ruin your life---or your marriage If you have been devastated by your husband's sexual betrayal--whether an isolated incident or a long-term pattern of addiction---you need to know you don't have to live as a victim. If you choose to stay in your marriage, you have options other than punishing, tolerating, or ignoring your spouse; in fact, extraordinary growth awaits a woman willing to deal with the pain of her husband's struggles with sexual purity. Even if a spouse will not participate in a program for healing, a woman who has been sexually betrayed can change her own life in powerful and permanent ways. This sensitive guide provides practical tools to help you make wise and empowering decisions, emotional tools to develop greater intimacy in your life, and spiritual tools to transform your suffering. Debra Laaser's personal journey through betrayal, her extensive work with hundreds of hurting women, and her intimate marriage two decades after the disclosure of her husband's infidelity provide meaningful answers to the questions that arise amid the complex fallout of broken vows. The pain endured from sexual betrayal can break your heart, but it does not need to break your life.
Marriage
The Power of a Praying Wife
Stormie Omartian
Bestselling author Stormie Omartian inspires women to develop a deeper relationship with their husbands by praying for them. This encouraging resource is packed with practical advice on praying for specific areas of a husband's life.
Marriage
The Power of a Praying® Husband (Power of Stormie Omartian Praying)
In The Power of a Praying® Husband Stormie helps men pray effectively for their wives and marriages. With stories and examples from her own marriage, Stormie encourages men to lovingly intercede for their wives in every area.
Marriage
For Men Only, Revised and Updated Edition: Shaunti and Jeff A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives Feldmahn of Women
f you’re like most men, you’ve burned up lots of energy trying to figure out what a woman wants, what makes her tick, how to make her happy. In their groundbreaking classic, For Men Only, Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn reveal the eye-opening truths and simple acts that will radically improve your relationship with the woman you love.
Marriage
For Women Only, Revised and Updated Edition: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men
Shaunti Feldmahn
The man in your life carries important feelings so deep inside he barely knows they’re there, much less how to talk about them. Yet your man genuinely wants you to “get” him—to understand his inner life, to know his fears and needs, to hear what he wishes he could tell you. Shaunti Feldhahn reveals what every woman—single or married—needs to know. Based on rigorous research with thousands of men, Shaunti delivers one eye-opening revelation after another.
Marriage
For Couples Only: Eyeopening Insights about How the Opposite Sex Thinks
Shaunti and Jeff Feldmahn
Ideal for small-group discussions, marriage and premarital counseling, or simply helping a couple grow in intimacy. This innovative approach yields candid and surprising answers about the things each gender doesn’t “get” about the other, along with practical ideas for how best to love and support the people they care about.
