Discipleship Resources
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We believe the best way we can help you and your family develop a strong spiritual foundation is by partnering with you and providing resources to use throughout the week.
Use each of these resources during different stages and seasons you are growing through!
We are praying for you and your relationship with Christ!
Marriage & Family
Marriage & Family
The Bible & Israel
The Bible & Israel
Worldview Studies
Worldview Studies
Creation Science
Creation Science
Books
Books
Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
By: Paul David Tripp
In Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family, author Paul David Tripp explores 14 practical and gospel-centered principles that will help parents see their role through the lens of God's Word and change the way they interact with their children. Principles include grace, identity, lies, authority, foolishness, and character.
Begin 21: Your First 21 Steps with Jesus
By: Timothy Eldred
Begin21 provides directions to start your relationship with Jesus, live out your new identity in Christ, and find your voice in God's story. This book will help you develop healthy habits to create a lifestyle that lasts a lifetime. Also included are questions for reflection, challenges for action, and thoughts to explore with a mentor or trusted friend.
Habits of the Household
Is there a disconnect between how you long to parent and what your day actually looks like? Earley shares a proven paradigm for bringing spiritual formation into family life, creating more meaningful - and peaceful - moments! With easy-to-implement daily rhythms, you'll develop a bedtime liturgy for little ones, discover discipline as discipleship, plan regular household mealtimes, and more.
By: Justin Earley
Family Discipleship
The most important disciple you'll ever make as a parent is within your own home! Through this guided framework, Chandler and Griffin will help you design a personalized discipleship plan focused on time, moments, and milestones. Each of these sections provides Scriptures to consider, questions to answer, structures to implement, and ideas to try out.
By: Matt Chandler & Adam Griffin
Healthy Parenting
By: Rick Johnson
Learn how to be a good parent, even if your own parents were abusive, neglectful, or absent. In Healthy Parenting, Best-selling author Rick Johnson offers compassionate and practical advice that will help you heal, break the cycle of toxic parenting, and create a positive family environment.
Raising Them Ready is a definitive guide for parents on how to prepare their kids for independent adult life. Learn from parenting experts Jonathan & Erica Catherman how to raise kids who are confident, capable, and eager to take on the challenges of adulthood. Get practical advice on how to assess your kids' mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets, and help them transition into independent adult life.
By: Jonathan and Erica Catherman
Raising them ready
The Intentional Father
By: John Tyson
Don't let boys walk alone into today's wilderness of conflicting cultural messages! Without strong mentors, it's no wonder young men get confused about what the world expects from them. Tyson provides practical steps to raising sons of consequence who know what they believe, who they are, and how to stand up to negative societal trends.
Mama bear apologetics
The problem with lies is they don't often sound like lies. They seem harmless, and even sound right. So what's a Mama Bear to do when her kids seem to be absorbing the culture's lies uncritically?
Mama Bear Apologetics™ is the book you've been looking for. This mom-to-mom guide will equip you to teach your kids how to form their own biblical beliefs about what is true and what is false. Through transparent life stories and clear, practical applications - including prayer strategies - this band of Mama Bears offers you tools to train yourself, so you can turn around and train your kids.
By: Hillary Morgan Ferrer
Shepherding a Child’s Heart
By: Ted Tripp
Many parenting books are based on hit-or-miss theories steeped in secular thinking. This one draws from Pastor Tripp's seasoned experience as a father-and from God's Holy Word. Grounded in the Bible's divine plan for parenting, this guide defines your goals as a parent and provides the Scriptural methods for accomplishing them.
Jesus Followers
By: Anne Graham Lotz
Begin building a family legacy of authentic faith! Exploring the biblical characters found in Genesis 5---and some funny, heart-wrenching, and awe-inspiring stories from their own well-known family---the daughter and the granddaughter of beloved evangelist Billy Graham demonstrate how the baton of belief can be passed through our witness, worship, walk, and work.
Praying Circles Around your children
By: Mark Batterson
Become a praying parent! Based on his bestseller The Circle Maker, Mark Batterson shares five key lessons to help you become extraordinary influences in your children's lives. With biblical insights and practical advice, he illustrates how to create prayer lists unique to your family, claim God-inspired promises for your children, and discover their individual life themes.