Instructing a Child's Heart (Tedd & Margy Tripp)

Description

Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd and Margy Tripp provides a crucial foundation for the principles in Shepherding a Child’s Heart, teaching parents the importance of developing and shaping their children’s thinking. This formative instruction is not discipline or correction; rather, it is intentionally building a biblical culture of thought and understanding in our homes.

Instructing a Child’s Heart is an essential “how-to” manual for Shepherding a Child’s Heart, helping parents provide their children with a biblical framework for approaching and understanding all of life.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Call to Formative Instruction

1. Life Is a Classroom

2. Five Goals for Formative Instruction

3. The Call to Formative Instruction

Part 2: Introduction to Formative Instruction

4. Three Principles for Communicating Formative Instruction

5. Getting to the Heart of Behavior

6. The Sowing and Reaping Principle of Scripture

7. Authority Is God’s Plan

8. Giving Children a Vision for the Glory of God

9. Wisdom and Foolishness

10. Complete in Christ

11. The Importance of the Church

Part 3: Application of Formative Instruction

12. Getting from Behavior to the Heart

13. Corrective Discipline – Applying the Sowing and Reaping Principle of Scripture

14. Communication

15. The Centrality of the Gospel

Endorsements

“A biblical and practical sequel to Shepherding a Child’s Heart.“ — Marvin Olasky, World Magazine

“Biblical. Practical. Pastoral. This insightful book on godly childrearing is everything we would expect from the author who brought us Shepherding a Child’s Heart. Its tremendous value comes from the fact that it centers on the essential but oft-neglected heart of biblical parenting: the Gospel of grace. I am glad to recommend it.” — John MacArthur, Pastor-Teacher, Grace Community Church

“As parents of six spunky children, we’ve found Tedd and Margy Tripp’s parenting advice to be simply the best. In a sea of child-raising materials flooding the market today, Instructing a Child’s Heart is a solid rock on which we can stand. Picking up where Shepherding a Child’s Heart left off, this new book is clear, biblical, and very practical. If you have children, you need to know Tedd and Margy Tripp.” — Kirk and Chelsea Cameron, Actors/Speakers

The authors

Tedd Tripp (B.A., Geneva College; M.Div., Philadelphia Theological Seminary; D. Min, Westminster Theological Seminary) is the president of Shepherding the Heart Ministries, and is Pastor Emeritus of Grace Fellowship Church in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, where he served from 1980 until 2012. Tedd has developed and teaches materials that encourage the people of God to understand gospel hope for the ways that human beings are pushed and pulled by the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

Margy Tripp grew up in a pastor’s home in western Pennsylvania, graduated from Nyack (Missionary) College, and was married to Tedd Tripp on June 8, 1968. She is a pastor’s (retired) wife. Tedd and Margy have three children, two sons and a daughter. All three are married to great spouses who Tedd and Margy regard as their own children. They have three beautiful granddaughters and six handsome grandsons. Margy has had many opportunities for a ministry of counseling over the years as well as developing materials and studies for children, ladies, and educators.

Product Details

Title: Instructing a Child's Heart

Authors: Tedd Tripp, Margy Tripp

Publisher: Shepherd Press

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 188