Motherhood
The biblical and thus Christian concept of motherhood has been under steady and increasing attack in Western civilization for two solid generations now. Not that it’s ever a new thing for biblical thinking to be assaulted or treated with disdain – that’s always been and always be in this fallen world. But prevailing views of what a mother’s lifestyle and calling should be have seen a a stepped-up level of assault in recent decades. This has meant that, even those who want to desire with Christ in obedient discipleship often still lack basic biblical understanding of how this is lived out. The need for instruction, example, and walking with the wise who have practiced it has never been greater. The book selections seen below have proven value to help.
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A Practical Guide for Praying Parents (Erwin Lutzer)
$9.75With the help of Dr. Erwin Lutzer, you can learn how your best, loving intentions can become enriching, effective intercessions for your children or grandchildren. Trade your lists of requests for Scripturally-based prayers that will immerse you in God’s promises and will. In A Practical Guide for Praying Parents, Dr. Lutzer addresses these concerns and much more:
- How to pray when children have hardened hearts
- How to pray for children who have become wayward prodigals
- How to become a prayer warrior who prays in the face of spiritual warfare
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FaithTraining: Raising Kids Who Love the Lord (Dr. Joe White)
$9.75“Joe White understands kids – what they need and want, what motivates them, and how to get them excited about the Christian faith.” — Josh McDowell, author of Evidence That Demands a Verdict
As easy to use as it is effective, FaithTraining provides parents a “gardening plan” to equip you to cultivate an ever-maturing faith in your child. Through Bible study suggestions, devotional ideas, reading lists, and tips for discussing tough issues with a variety of ages, you’ll have the tools you need to encourage your kids to blossom in their love for the Lord.
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Girl Talk: Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood (Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole Mahaney Whitacre)
$13.99God has a purpose for every mother-daughter relationship.
Without vital conversation between mothers and daughters, a godless society will have the loudest voice in girls’ lives. Designed to be read together or separately, this book will stimulate conversation as mothers seek to pass along the legacy of godly womanhood to their daughters. Carolyn Mahaney and her daughter Nicole Whitacre share from personal experience as they explore the joy and freedom that comes from a relationship rooted in God’s unique design for mothers and daughters—pointing the world to the truth of the gospel from one generation to the next.
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Honest Prayers for Mama Bears (Hillary Morgan Ferrer with Julie Loos)
$14.39Lay your burdens at your heavenly Father’s feet using Scripture’s words of praise, conviction, repentance, and protection. Gathered from mamas just like you, these prayers will encourage you to become more vulnerable and intentional in presenting heartfelt needs for your children, community, and yourself. From Ferrer and Loos, part of the best-selling team behind Mama Bear Apologetics.
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Mama Bear Apologetics Study Guide Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies (Hillary Ferrer)
$11.95Empowered to Speak Truth
Talking to your children about gender, sexuality, and marriage can be challenging. But the difference between what the Bible and the world have to say about these topics can be a gateway to teaching them to love and cherish God’s sacred truth. This helpful study guide companion to Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality will prepare you to turn these tricky conversations into amazing opportunities for kingdom discipleship.$13.99 -
Mothers: Disciplers of the Next Generations (Sally Michael)
$8.50This booklet will challenge you to look on your mothering with a biblical perspective, to daily seize opportunities to encourage faith in your children, and to rely on God to accomplish the great work to which He has called you.
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Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms (Gloria Furman)
$11.99As a pastor’s wife and mother of four, Gloria Furman encourages women to refocus and reorient their vision of motherhood in this thoughtful resource for frazzled moms. Showing them how to pursue a vibrant and ever-growing relationship with Christ—even when discouragement sets in and the dirty laundry is still waiting to be washed—this book recasts the monotony of everyday life, showing how moms can treasure Christ more deeply no matter how busy they are. This updated edition of Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full features study questions that women can work through individually or as part of a small group.
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You Are Still a Mother: Hope for Women Grieving a Stillbirth or Miscarriage (Jackie Gibson)
$9.99You Are Still a Mother weaves Scripture and deep truths about God with Jackie’s personal experience to provide a book that is both honest and full of hope. Acknowledging that all who suffer this loss will never be the same, she reassures readers that God will be present through every moment of every day.
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The Convivial Homeschool (Mystie Winckler)
$13.50Thirty daily readings to build up your confidence and cheerfulness as you homeschool.
Homeschool days can be long and hard. It’s easy to lose sight of what’s actually happening in the midst of the day to day. Even when we lose our vision, God does not lose His. While we attempt to teach and disciple our children, we find that it is ourselves needing the instruction and discipleship. We also find that God provides both, using our decision to homeschool to draw us closer to Himself.
To continue with love and perseverance, we need confidence not in our work but in God’s. These thirty readings will lift up your eyes and spirit so you can focus on what truly matters while doing the daily work of educating your kids.
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Knights in Training (Heather Haupt)
$15.99Ten Principles for Raising Honorable, Courageous, and Compassionate Boys
Bringing chivalry back into our modern-day world, this book shows us how to inspire today’s generation of young boys to pursue honor, courage, and compassion.
In an age when respect and honor seem like distant and antiquated relics, how can we equip boys to pursue valor and courageously put the needs of others before their own? This book helps parents to inspire their boys by captivating their imagination and honoring their love for adventure.
Heather Haupt explores how knights historically lived out various aspects of the knights’ Code of Chivalry, as depicted in the French epic Song of Roland, and how boys can embody these same ideals now. When we issue the challenge and give boys the reasons why it is worth pursuing, we step forward on an incredible journey towards raising the kind of boys who, just like the knights of old, make an impact in their world now and for the rest of their lives.
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Teach Them to Work (Mary Beeke)
$14.50“Mary Beeke has written a remarkable book on the privilege and art of raising children. It is theological, practical, insightful, helpful, and a delight to read. As I turned the pages, I felt as though I was reading from a Reformed or Puritan classic on the family that had been re-crafted by the pen of a contemporary writer and made accessible to all.
I recommend this work without reservation not only to parents but also to their children. This is a wonderful gift to the family and the church! May it be read far and wide.”
— Paul Washer, director, HeartCry Missionary Society
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Your Child’s Profession of Faith (Dennis Gundersen)
$10.36Dennis Gundersen’s unique treatment of this rarely addressed subject can make the difference between parents who participate in their child’s deception and presumption, or parents who truly guide him to eternal life. If a small child tells us he thinks he’s saved, do we take his words at face value? How do we test his profession, especially without seeming to doubt the child and discourage him? Many have found this book the most useful guide ever written on the topic.
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Preparing Children for Marriage (Josh Mulvihill)
$14.50My kids are way too young to be thinking about dating and marriage already! Why would I begin ‘the talk’ now, before they’ve even started asking questions?”
Many parents find it difficult to broach these topics with their children, especially in age-appropriate ways. But our choice is no longer between teaching them now or later—if we do not reach them first, our culture is happy to step in with messages of its own. Someone is going to shape our children’s beliefs—so the time to start biblical conversations is now!
In this foundation-laying book, Josh Mulvihill offers theological training for a critical area of parenting. He walks parents through how to begin conversations, then teaches them God’s purpose for dating, marriage, and sex so they can pass this teaching on to their children.
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If I Could Speak: Letters from the Womb (Mark Jones)
$10.95“Imagine granting an innocent child a public hearing before they were led off to be killed. This innovative book re–awakens to the true horrors of abortion by humanizing what’s at stake. Mark Jones has taken imaginative writing to a new level on behalf of the most vulnerable people in our world, the unborn in Letters from the Womb. Can we listen to them? Will we give them a hearing?” — Tony Reinke, editor at Desiring God and author of the book 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You
This is a book of correspondence from an unborn baby to her mother. Making an impassioned plea to her mother to not abort her, she shares her hopes and fears with the woman who can control whether she lives or dies. These letters are an appeal to all who read them to choose life.
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The Disciple-Making Parent (Chap Bettis)
$12.75What is more important to a parent than where your child will spend eternity? Every child – including yours – will either have the joy of living forever as a worshiper of Jesus Christ or the misery of being separated from Him. We have no doubt you want your child to be not just yours but a child of God.
But today, in a culture that resists Christian faith and biblical truth at every turn, parents must have wisdom and sound plans.
The Disciple-Making Parent can provide you with confidence that you can do this right.
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Between Us Girls: Walks & Talks for Moms & Daughters (Trish Donohue)
$14.50Between Us Girls was written for mothers with daughters between the ages of seven and fourteen. Moms of younger girls may choose to skip or modify a couple of chapters, while moms of older girls can springboard off certain chats into deeper conversations. Moms of teens may even find it fruitful to meet in a group and explore the material with their 13- and 14-year old girls in a broader community setting.
While designed for mothers and daughters specifically, Between Us Girls could easily be used by any woman in a one-on-one mentoring relationship with a younger girl.
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Family Discipleship (Matt Chandler & Adam Griffin)
$19.50Discipling your family can feel like an intimidating task, but it doesn’t need to be overwhelming or complicated. With a simple plan in place, discipleship is something every parent can do.
Pastors Matt Chandler and Adam Griffin have made it their mission to help you develop a sustainable rhythm of gospel-centered discipleship focused in three key areas: time, moments, and milestones. Filled with suggestions, sample plans, and Scripture references, this book begins with the end in mind—equipping you to create a unique plan for your family as you raise your children in the love and fear of the Lord.
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Our 24 Family Ways: A Family Devotional Guide (Clay Clarkson)
$14.75Our 24 Family Ways is a parent-friendly, Bible-centered family time resource that seamlessly weaves together devotional interaction with discipleship instruction for the whole family. This is a tool to train your children in the way they should go, teach them Bible truths and principles, train them in Christian character and values, and strengthen their relationship with the Lord.
Our 24 Family Ways is a multi-purpose family devotional guide that will shape hearts in your home for God and his ways. It’s easy to use and hard to forget! Scroll down to see what’s included:
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Tying Their Shoes: A Christ-Centered Approach to Preparing for Parenting (Rob & Stephanie Green)
$14.50Authors Rob and Stephanie Green know a baby brings many wonderful changes for both biological and adoptive parents. While other parenting resources help expectant parents prepare for the physical and emotional work of child-rearing, the Greens address the all-important spiritual foundation needed for parenting.
They help parents understand and apply the gospel—the best resource to ground couples in their relationships with the Lord, with each other, and with their children.
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Parenting First Aid: Hope for the Discouraged (Marty Machowski)
$13.50For families with small struggles or weighty parenting trials—such as children involved with drugs, sexual sin, and teenage rebellion—Parenting First Aid is full of personal, real testimonies of God’s faithfulness to those experiencing hardship.
The easy-to-use format provides encouragement to turn to God in the midst of family difficulty. While God does not promise happiness and ease in parenting, all can find comfort in God and peace beyond understanding through the Scriptures and meditations found in Parenting First Aid.
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