Parenting by God’s Promises: How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace (Joel R. Beeke)
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Parents are unable to give their children what they need most—new hearts that trust in Christ for forgiveness of sins. All belief is a work of God alone. But parents must not “hinder” their children from coming to Christ, as Jesus’ disciples sought to hinder mothers and fathers from bringing small children to Him (Mark 10:13–16). On the contrary, they must do everything in their power to “bring” their children to the Savior, which means raising their sons and daughters in the nurture and admonition of the Lord (Eph. 6:4).
In Parenting by God’s Promises: How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace, Dr. Joel R. Beeke explores what this nurture and admonition looks like and offers gems of practical wisdom for parents on topics such as instituting and leading family worship, teaching children, modeling faithful Christian living, and exercising discipline. However, he carefully puts parental responsibilities in their proper perspective and guides mothers and fathers to lean not on their own abilities but to trust more fully in the God who knits children together in the first place. Above all, he affirms, parents must look to the one true God, who promises to provide everything His people need and to bless them and their families.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Derek W.H. Thomas
Introduction: Parenting with a Strong Hope
Part One: Covenantal Foundations for Parenting
1. Encouragement through the Covenant
2. Children of the Covenant
3. Rearing Children by Faith
4. The Covenant Promise
5. Bringing Children to Christ
Part Two: Parenting as Prophets, Priests, and Kings
6. Our Responsibility as Parents
7. Teaching Our Children as Prophets
8. What Should We Teach Our Children?
9. Training in Godly Living
10. Serving as Priests in the Home
11. Sympathizing with Our Children
12. Exercising Loving Rule as Kings
13. Preventive Discipline
14. Corrective Discipline
Part Three: Practical Steps for Child-Rearing
15. Help from Our Puritan Forebears
16. Teaching Children Piety
17. Teaching Children to Listen
18. Taming Children’s Tongues
19. Handling Sibling Relationships
Part Four: Practical Helps for Teenagers
20. Helping Teenagers Discern God’s Will
21. Helping Teenagers Resist Negative Peer Pressure
22. Helping Teenagers Manage Anger
Conclusion: To a Thousand Generations
Appendix 1: Cotton Mather’s Parental Resolutions
Appendix 2: Children in the Church
Product Details
Title: Parenting by God’s Promises: How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace
Author: Beeke, Joel R.
ISBN: 9781567692662
Publisher: Reformation Trust Publishing
Pages: 345
Binding: Hardcover