Here’s what we’re reading and listen to these days.
Concerning Children
- Five Ways We Fight For our Children – Phillip Holmes
- How Do I Show Kindness to my Children and Expect them to Obey? – John Piper
- Pray Big Things for Your Little Ones – Stacey Pardoe
- Raising Children Who are Confident in God – John Piper
- Should Children Sit Through Big Church? – John Piper
- Teach Children the Bible is Not About Them – Sally Loyd- Jones
- When to Baptize our Believing Children – Joe Rigney
- Why You Should Catechize Your Children (video) – Tim Keller
Cultivating the Home
- The High Value of at Home Work (Podcast) – Courtney Reissig
Bibles and Devotional Resources for Kids and Families
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The Bible Story Handbook: A Resource for Teaching 175 Stories from the Bible – John H. Walton and Kim E Walton
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The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden – Kevin DeYoung
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The Biggest Story ABC Board Book – Kevin DeYoung
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The Church History ABCs: Augustine and 25 Other Heroes of the Faith – Stephen J Nichols
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ESV Following Jesus Bible – Great for the child (8-12) who has grown out of their children’s Bible, helpful commentary, maps, etc.
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The Gospel Story Bible: Discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments – Marty Machowski
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The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name – Sally Loyd Jones
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Long Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God – Marty Machowski
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The Ology: Ancient Truths, Ever New – Wonderful 1st systematic theology by Marty Machowski
Family Worship
- How I Lead My Children in Personal Devotions – Tim Challies
- Practical Advise for Family Devotions – Tim Challies
- Why We Fail at Family Devotions – Tim Challies
- 10 Ideas and 10 Tips for Family Devotions in 2017 – Tim Challies
Favorite Hymnals
Hymn History
- General site for history of Christian classics and hymns: CCEL
- A Mighty Fortress is Our God: Discovering the Power of Luther’s Original Lyrics – David Mathis
- Why We Sing “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus.” – Jesse Johnson
Music, Hymns and Worship
- A great hymn index: Cyber Hymnal
- A Song for the Weak and Broken – Keven Twit
- Please Stop Idolizing Youth Culture in Worship (Podcast) – Mike Cosper, Kevin Twit, and Isaac Wardell
- What We Lost When We Lost our Hymnals – Tim Challies
- When Worship Lyrics Miss the Mark – John Piper
- Why I Didn’t Sing When I Visited Your Church – Tim Challies
- Words of Wonder: What Happens when we Sing? – Bob Kauflin
- Worshipping With a Broken Heart – Rachel Coulter
