Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family (Paul David Tripp)

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What is your calling as a parent?

In the midst of folding laundry, coordinating carpool schedules, and breaking up fights, many parents get lost. Feeling pressure to do everything “right” and raise up “good” children, it’s easy to lose sight of our ultimate purpose as parents in the quest for practical tips and guaranteed formulas.

In this life-giving book, Paul Tripp offers parents much more than a to-do list. Instead, he presents us with a big-picture view of God’s plan for us as parents. Outlining fourteen foundational principles centered on the gospel, he shows that we need more than the latest parenting strategy or list of techniques. Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God—grace that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents.

Freed from the burden of trying to manufacture life-change in our children’s hearts, we can embrace a grand perspective of parenting overflowing with vision, purpose, and joy. 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ambassadors

1. Calling 

Principle: Nothing is more important in your life than being one of God’s tools to form a human soul. 

2. Grace

Principle: God never calls you to a task without giving you what you need to do it. He never sends you without going with you. 

3. Law

Principle: Your children need God’s law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish. 

4. Inability

Principle: Recognizing what you are unable to do is essential to good parenting. 

5. Identity

Principle: If you are not resting as a parent in your identity in Christ, you will look for identity in your children. 

6. Process

Principle: You must be committed as a parent to long-view parenting because change is a process and not an event. 

7. Lost

Principle: As a parent you’re not dealing just with bad behavior, but a condition that causes bad behavior. 

8. Authority

Principle: One of the foundational heart issues in the life of every child is authority. Teaching and modeling the protective beauty of authority is one of the foundations of good parenting. 

9. Foolishness

Principle: The foolishness inside your children is more dangerous to them than the temptation outside of them. Only God’s grace has the power to rescue fools. 

10. Character

Principle: Not all of the wrong your children do is a direct rebellion to authority; much of the wrong is the result of a lack of character. 

11. False Gods 

Principle: You are parenting a worshiper, so it’s important to remember that what rules your child’s heart will control his behavior. 

12. Control

Principle: The goal of parenting is not control of behavior, but rather heart and life change.

13. Rest

Principle: It is only rest in God’s presence and grace that will make you a joyful and patient parent. 

14. Mercy

Principle: No parent gives mercy better than one who is convinced that he desperately needs it himself. 

General Index

Scripture Index

Product Details 

Title: Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Author: Paul David Tripp

Pages: 216

Binding: Paperback

Size: 15 x 1.2 x 22.6 cm

ISBN: 9789670341392

Sample Pages 

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