Paul Tripp’s Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family is a refreshing book in the parenting space. Tripp focuses more on the big picture than specific discipline techniques and continually reminds parents that lasting change begins in the heart, both for parents and children alike. Tripp succinctly covers a different biblical principle and explains how it relates to parenting.
5 Things to Pray for your Spouse: Prayers that Change and Strengthen your Marriage
Your marriage and your spouse should be prayed for everyday. Marriage is not easy and takes work but yields a lifetime of growth and joy. This book is perfect for all marriages to guide and shape our prayers and affections for our spouses.
Addressing the Passive Husband
Passive husbands are a common frustration in marriages which lead to bitterness and hopelessness. God has called men to actively lead the family, but what does this look like and how do you go from passive to active?
Dear Christian Counselor,
Dear Christian Counselor, if your counsel has stalled or you are not equipped to help the couple, the answer is not be divorce. Do not discount the beauty of reconciliation that is found in restoring marriages.
How to Help Troubled Marriages
Helping someone that is in a troubled marriage may seem impossible or overwhelming. All Christians are called to bear each others burdens, weep and rejoice with others, disciple others, and many more one-another verses. Biblical Counselors are helpful in working through the complex issues within troubled marriages, but all Christians are called to participate in different ways. All marriages need Godly men and women to model right behavior and to walk alongside them in day-to-day life. If you have ever wondered How can I help someone with a troubled marriage, here are a few suggestions:
Story of Marriage
God created marriage and rightly defines it. Marriage is built on a covenant and is part of God’s story. When we fail to root our marriage in God’s good plan of marriage, we take on the false stories of the world.
Restorative Separation
Biblical restorative separation is a process of removing oneself from sin and dysfunction and choosing not to participate or enable this sin and dysfunction for a period of time with the goal of restoring the marriage to God’s intent in marriage.