Reaching Your Child’s Heart: A Practical Guide to Faithful Parenting
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Overview
In Reaching Your Child’s Heart, Juan and Jeanine Sanchez encourage parents from their gospel-shaped perspective that children don’t need perfect parents—they need a perfect Savior.
Raising children can feel overwhelming as you try to navigate the many voices telling you what to do and not to do, but God has already given you everything you need to be faithful parents! Even though you may be exhausted and discouraged, take heart from the simple, biblical principles shared by Juan and Jeanine Sanchez that will point you to Jesus as your guide and helper as you seek to shepherd your children through every age and stage of growth.
As they share their own journey of parenting five children, the authors highlight the importance of a team-based approach of parenting together. They emphasize focusing on children’s hearts, rather than behavior modification, and illustrate how daily faithfulness in the routine cares of life is never a waste of time. A down-to-earth, practical guide for parents that will help them move from survival mode to joyful, Christ-dependent parenting. Parents will learn biblical principles for positive instruction and corrective discipline, including practical examples of parenting through different ages and stages. Includes questions for reflection for individual use or group discussion.
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- Encourages parents from their gospel-shaped perspective that children don’t need perfect parents.
- Points you to Jesus as your guide and helper as you seek to shepherd your children.
- Highlights the importance of a team-based approach of parenting together.
- Introduction: Help! I Am a Parent!
- 1: God’s Desire for Godly Offspring
- 2: The Heart of the Problem
- 3: A Road Map for the Journey
- 4: The Place of Spiritual Warfare and Faith-Fueled Prayer in Raising Children
- 5: The Place of Parental Example in Raising Children
- 6: The Place of Biblical Instruction in Raising Children
- 7: Biblical Discipline: Leading Children to Walk in Wisdom
- 8: Parenting and Discipline in the Younger Years (0–5 years)
- 9: Parenting in the Middle Years (6–12 years)
- 10: Parenting in the Older Years (13–18 years)
- Conclusion: Words of Encouragement
- Notes
The book you have in your hands is a combination of biblical wisdom and genuine humility cultivated by years of trial and error learning to parent under God’s hand. I love that the book begins by reminding you to pray and ends by emphasizing the need to trust in the Lord with all your heart rather than relying on your own understanding of your child's heart. Read this book and put it to work!
—Miguel Núñez, Professor of Pastoral Leadership, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; senior pastor, International Baptist Church of Santo Domingo; president, Wisdom and Integrity Ministries
Juan and Jeanine Sanchez outline a biblical and theological framework of practical, gospel-oriented principles for parenting. Each chapter is followed by helpful discussion questions, giving an interactive opportunity for parents to assess and apply these biblical principles in their own families. We highly recommend Reaching Your Child’s Heart as a very accessible, practical, biblically sound framework for parenting.
—David and Sally Michael, Executive Director, Truth78; author; director of publishing and training; Truth78
I first heard Juan and Jeanine talk about these parenting principles when I was a member at High Pointe Baptist, where Juan serves as senior pastor. Both my wife and I were tremendously blessed by the simple way in which they demystified parenting for us, and we still apply their advice with our kids to this day.
—Giancarlo Montemayor, Vice President of Global Publishing, Lifeway Christian Resources