Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family (with Study Questions) Hardcover – June 4, 2024

This book is absolutely insightful and helpful. Highly recommended.

I could spend a book writing about how good this book is! When it has accolades from someone like Francis Chan, I don’t know why you need my opinion. But here it is. I took so many pages of notes about ways this book revolutionizes the philosophy of parenting based on the Gospel. My son is an infant, and I praise the Lord that I discovered this book at the beginning of my parenting journey. The way I live out my faith IN RELATIONSHIP is how my children will understand faith! As daunting as the calling is to be an ambassador of our heavenly Father to our children is, Tripp gives us so many encouraging Scriptures that remind us that we are not alone and that we have the power through Christ to fulfill this calling. Also, it is such an encouragement to remember that my children are in His hands ultimately, not mine. I can be faithful, but I cannot sanctify them. That is a relief. Tripp did such a good job at helping me see my sanctification journey with God as my Father in a way that will give me grace and compassion and patience with my children, because I am no different from them. Also, parenting seems so much more important when you realize that your responsibility is to help your children see themselves and their behaviors in light of Jesus and his love and sacrifice, not to force them to be obedient - God is more concerned about who we are, than what we do. My child and I are working together against the enemy of sin in both of our lives; I am not my child’s enemy, nor is my child my enemy. I as a parent, and as a child of God, am forever changed by this book.One other comment that I have about it is that the book is about very large philosophies, and doesn’t have almost any practical examples of how to carry out these philosophies. It was best read in the context of a group of other Christian parents, so we could discuss how to live out of these philosophies as parents.I am an adoption specialist and I have read very many parenting books. This is the best one and the most important one.

I highly recommend this book!! It's not just another child training book, how to raise kids, but focuses on the parents.

I have been struggling (for what feels like an eternity) trying to be the parent I know I can be, by the grace of Jesus. I started off really confident with my first child, but after a few years and a few more kids, the stress and the struggle to "keep it all together", and the constant opinions from all the outsiders who weren't raising my children, really overwhelmed me. I needed to give not only myself but my CHILDREN the grace that the Lord Himself gives us; I needed to understand it in a way I just couldn't before. The world has so many "solutions" and answers for everything "parenting" and not many of the answers I sought out helped me at all - because not one of them pointed out how we are all sinners in need of grace, and to look at the true "heart issue" that we all struggle with, which is ultimately SIN. When the world tells you "All you need to do is steps 1, 2, 3 and everything will be great!" and none of those things seem to explain the larger picture, it can feel really pointless and defeating - especially when it feels like nothing is really even changing. When we are finally able to see ourselves through God's eyes and understand his GRACE for us and our need for dependence on HIM and HIM ALONE, THEN we truly see clearer. As Pastor Tripp mentions, we are blind leading the blind (essentially) without Jesus at our center. There is plenty of scripture reference to support all of his points.This is truly a must-read for all those Christian parents out there that need a better, more Jesus-centered focus on parenting. What the world tells us is a bandaid, but what the Lord tells us is Truth, and it is absolutely healing! I cried at least 3 times (and I'm talking, this is hitting home so hard right now, cries), and I haven't even finished the book yet. Pastor P. Tripp really puts common heart issues of all parents right out there - he is straight-forward and honest. That is what this world needs more - honesty and most especially, the grace of the Lord.

I really enjoyed this book! I read another parenting book after this one and did not enjoy it as much. When I considered why that could be, I realized that the gospel focus in this book was what made it so refreshing! We are administrators of everything that God places in our hands--including our children. Very helpful for focusing on what truly matters.