FAMILY AND PARENTING
Nothing can bring more joy or more stress than family. God has a plan for creating a strong, stable and peace-filled home
Christians often focus so much on being loving and giving that they forget their own limits and limitations. Have you ever found yourself wondering:
• Can I set limits and still be a loving person?
• How do I answer someone who wants my time, love, energy, or money?
• Why do I feel guilty when I consider setting boundaries?
In this Gold Medallion Award–winning book, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend give you biblically based answers to these and other tough questions, and show you how to set healthy boundaries with your parents, spouses, children, friends, coworkers, and even yourself.
One of the biggest challenges that couples are called to face is raising God-fearing children. Raising Kingdom Kids consists of nine chapters on developing skills as a "Kingdom" parent, followed by how-tos for developing specific character traits in kids. This book challenges and equips parents to fully understand their position under God, helping them fulfill their role in parenting the children God has given them.
Lysa TerKeurst, mother of five and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries, knows about the bouts of "mommy stress" that come with parenting and managing a home and a life. From her own experience and conversations with hundreds of other women, Lysa shares how mothers can release the guilt they sometimes feel and
stop blaming their parenting skills every time a child does something wrong
let kids live with the consequences of their bad choices
simplify life to create breathing room
quit comparing themselves to "perfect" moms
turn to God for support, guidance, and patience
Overflowing with practical ideas, short Bible studies, and plenty of encouragement, this inspiring resource will help moms to realize that--with God's wisdom and mercy--they can experience peace and satisfaction while raising their kids.
The Family Project Devotional offers a year of powerful inspiration and biblical application to spouses and parents. Taking biblical admonitions, such as to bear one another’s burdens and to encourage one another, this devotional then applies them specifically to family life. For each of the 52 weeks, this devotional offers
The week’s title and topic
An opening prayer
Scripture readings for each day, plus a featured verse of the week
Reflection questions or an activity for each day
A summary of the biblical teachings
Quotable quotes
Closing prayer
This devotional complements Focus on the Family’s much-anticipated The Family Project, a curriculum designed to change the way moms, dads, wives, and husbands see themselves—and to help them build healthy households from the best blueprint of all.
HELPFUL WEBSITES
Focus on the Family is a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. We provide help and resources for couples to build healthy marriages that reflect God’s design, and for parents to raise their children according to morals and values grounded in biblical principles.
We’re here to come alongside families with relevance and grace at each stage of their journey. We support families as they seek to teach their children about God and His beautiful design for the family, protect themselves from the harmful influences of culture and equip themselves to make a greater difference in the lives of those around them.
We are dedicated to repairing, rebuilding, and restoring the family.
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“Your sons shall rebuild the ruins of former years, and shall revive the foundation of old, and you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of the streets in which you dwell.“ Isaiah 58:12
Providing faith for families through understanding and knowledge.
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“By wisdom is a house built, and through understanding is it established, through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.” Proverbs 24:3-5
The tools to build the marriage, family, and life that God has called us to come from the Word.
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“I will build my church…” Matthew 16:16
SCRIPTURES ON FAMILY AND PARENTING
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Psalm 34:11
For You O Lord, will bless the righteous; With favor You will surround him as with a shield.
Psalm 5:12
And these Words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
Train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverb 22:6
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
Proverbs 22:15
Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. You shall beat him with a rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
Proverbs 23:13,14
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth”. And you, Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1-4