Recommended Reading for Parents

FBC Recommended Reading for Parents
This list of recommended reading provides parents with the resources to disciple their children in their walk with Jesus Christ, specifically in the areas of beginning to build a Christ-centered  home, family worship and devotions, and Christian parenting.
Beginning to Build a Christ-Centered Home

Faith Begins at Home: The Family Makeover with Christ at the Center by Mark Holmen

The Christian faith is nurtured first and primarily in our homes. According to Deuteronomy 6, children are to receive daily instruction in the ways of the Lord from their parents. This book is an incredibly helpful resource in helping parents structure their homes with the spiritual maturing of their children as a foremost priority. Here find inspirational stories and practical ideas that families can implement today to bring Christ and Christlike living into the center of their homes.

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Family Worship and Devotions

Family Worship by R. Donald S. Whitney

Gathering together for worship is an indispensable part of your family’s spiritual life. It is a means for God to reveal himself to you and your loved ones in a powerful way. This practical guide by Donald S. Whitney will prove invaluable to families as they practice God-glorifying, Christ-exalting worship through Bible reading, prayer, and singing. Includes a discussion guide in the back for small groups.

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The Family Worship Book: A Resource Book for Family Devotions by Terry Johnson

Do you struggle to provide enjoyable, meaningful and spiritual times of family devotions? Do you avoid the whole subject but have the nagging thought that you should be doing something? This resource can equip you to lead your family in worship with the help of some key questions: What is family worship? What have other people done? Why Should I do it? How can I start? This is a valuable resource which you will not exhaust in years.

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One Year of Dinner Table Devotions & Discussion Starters by Nancy Guthrie

Getting the kids to turn off the TV and video games is challenging enough, let alone gathering as a family to read and discuss the Bible! One Year of Dinner Table Devotions & Discussion Starters helps families start where they are already gathered together on a daily basis: around the dinner table. As the meal comes to a close, family members can take turns turning to the dinner-table devotion for that day, designed to be done together as a family in ten to fifteen minutes. The result is a meaningful daily discussion in which every family member can participate, drawing the whole family closer to God . . . and to each other.

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Family Devotions Collection by Truth78

Parents often hear about the importance of family devotions, but how many parents actually feel readily equipped and personally encouraged in doing family devotions. How can the church help “equip the saints for the work of the ministry” (Ephesians 4:12) in discipling their children? One way is to make sure parents have access to biblically-solid, engaging, easy-to-use devotional resources. Toward that end, the “Family Devotions Collection” addresses the Gospel, God’s design, the names of God, the promises of God, God’s providence, wisdom, and the Word of God. This is a wonderful introduction to the nature and character of God for children.

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The New City Catechism by Gospel Coalition

The New City Catechism for Kids is a modern-day resource aimed at teaching the core doctrines of the Christian faith to children ages 4–11. This 64-page booklet contains each of the 52 easy-to-understand questions and short answers found in The New City Catechism designed to help children understand who God is and what he has done. With answers that are short enough for children to read, understand, and memorize, this low-cost booklet is designed for bulk distribution and is ideally suited for Sunday school classes, Christian schools, and homeschooling families. This resource is sold both individually and as part of the curriculum kit.

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Christian Parenting

Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God by Voddie Baucham Jr.

More teens are turning away from the faith than ever before: it is estimated that 75 to 88 percent of Christian teens walk away from Christianity by the end of their freshman year of college. Something must be done. 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.  This bold book is an urgent call to parents―and the church―to return to biblical discipleship in and through the home. This paperback edition includes a new preface and a study guide to facilitate interaction in small-group settings and to help parents put principles into practice.

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Disciplines of a Godly Family by R. Kent and Barbara Hughes

Disciplines of a Godly Family covers such topics as establishing a solid family heritage, promoting affection between family members, encouraging godliness in children, using appropriate discipline, and helping children cultivate enriching lifelong habits. Kent and Barbara Hughes also offer tips for fun and affordable family vacations, creating family traditions, and starting a prayer notebook. They even give us a suggested list of books and videos that should be in every family’s library. For those struggling to parent their own children or to equip other parents for this task, a more practical, honest, and common-sense guide will be hard to find.

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Parenting by Paul David Tripp

What is your calling as a parent? In the midst of folding laundry, coordinating carpool schedules, and breaking up fights, many parents get lost. Feeling pressure to do everything “right” and raise up “good” children, it’s easy to lose sight of our ultimate purpose as parents in the quest for practical tips and guaranteed formulas. In this book, Paul Tripp offers parents much more than a to-do list. Instead, he presents us with a big-picture view of God’s plan for us as parents. Outlining fourteen foundational principles centered on the gospel, the author shows that we need more than the latest parenting strategy or list of techniques. Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God―grace that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents. Freed from the burden of trying to manufacture life-change in our children’s hearts, we can embrace a grand perspective of parenting overflowing with vision, purpose, and joy.

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Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd 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.

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