Explore the spiritual dynamics of parenting, and why caring for children is such an effective discipline in shaping our souls and forming the character of Christ within us.
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Gary Thomas is changing the way Christians look at marriage and parenting.The author of several books including Sacred Marriage, Sacred Parenting, Sacred Pathways and Authentic Faith, he also teaches at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.His books and his ministry focus on spiritual formation: how we can integrate Scripture, church history, and the time-tested wisdom of the Christian classics to transform our modern experience.Gary’s speaking ministry has led him to speak across the United States, in four different countries, and on numerous national television and radio programs, including Focus on the Family and Family Life Today.He lives with his wife and children in Bellingham, Washington.
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By Anne Cernyar
Format:Hardcover
Many child-rearing books focus on the "hows" of discipline, training, and shaping our children. This excellent work focuses on how we as parents are changed for the better through the often-exhausting, yet joyous process of helping our children grow into confident, moral, happy adults. I found it encouraging, challenging, and comforting. Highly recommended!!! I just wish I could find a version on tape . . .
By Mark Nenadov
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Format:Paperback
Gary provides good, wise advice here. He takes a really fresh approach. It's completely different than a "how to" book.
All parents should seek to digest and actualize many of the concepts shared in here.
The downside to this book, in my opinion, is that there is too much rambling/repetition. It seems to me that the author basically bloats about 180 pages of content into 240.
All parents should seek to digest and actualize many of the concepts shared in here.
The downside to this book, in my opinion, is that there is too much rambling/repetition. It seems to me that the author basically bloats about 180 pages of content into 240.
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Sacred Parenting Lifts Our Eyes
Mar 10 2005
By Robyn Kindlund
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Format:Hardcover
As a parent, it's common to get stuck in the mundane, the trivial, and the completely earthbound. Sacred Parenting lifts us above that plane for a little while and helps us to see "the other side of the tapestry," to glimpse what God may be doing in us and our children through the everyday, both good and not-so-good. Exploring parental guilt and anger, encouraging joy in parenting, and especially helping us see the work the Father has already done in us are some of the hallmarks of this book. Somehow Gary Thomas manages to walk the tightrope between practical and theoretical, neither wallowing in the "how-to's" so typical of parenting books nor neglecting the sidewalk-level realities of how hard this job can be. He plants hope, ironically, by admitting that parenting is hard and that kids don't always "turn out right," but that we know without doubt that God is teaching us unique lessons through it that we would otherwise never learn.
43 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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Essential Reading for Every Christian Parent
July 6 2005
By R. A. Williams
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For years my wife and I had debated whether or not we should have a child. My wife just didn't have that strong emotional drive some women have to procreate. My desire to have a child would come and go. Finally, when my desire to have a child came again, we prayerfully decided to go for it. The pregnancy was filled with painful and expensive complications, which was followed by severe postpartum depression. I felt terrible guilt for asking my wife to do this. My daughter is a year old now. She's perfect. God couldn't have made a more beautiful child. But parenting is a lot tougher than I'd imagined and I was fighting the notion that I'd made a mistake. After the first frustrating, sleep deprived year, I felt that I was clearly not cut out to be a parent. However, Sacred Parenting changed my mind. It showed me there every single parenting experience, whether good or bad, was a gift from God that would shape my soul for eternity. He also pointed out all the simple pleasures that awaited me in the future. Thanks for showing me the light, Gary. You are wise beyond your years.
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So that's why it's so hard!
May 19 2005
By Stephen T. Wynkoop
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Format:Paperback
If you are looking for a how to book this is not it. If you are looking at what God does in our lives in shaping us spiritually through parenting then this is the book for you.
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