Sacred Parenting, Gary Thomas
Sacred Parenting, Gary Thomas
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Sacred Parenting
How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls

Author: Gary Thomas

Narrator: Gary L. Thomas, Gary Thomas

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 04/19/2009

Synopsis

Parenting is a school for spiritual formation. . .and our children are our teachers.The journey of caring for, rearing, training, and loving our children profoundly alters us forever. Even when the journey is a rough one, God uses the experience to train, shape, and love us. Sacred Parenting is unlike any other parenting book on the market. This is not a "how-to" book that teaches readers the ways to discipline their kids or help them achieve their full potential. Instead of a discussion about how parents change their children, Sacred Parenting demonstrates how God uses children to change their parents.Stepping beyond the overly-tilled soil of method books, parents can learn a whole new side of parenting. You'll be encouraged by stories that tell how other parents handled the challenges and difficulties of being a parent – and how their children transformed their relationship with God.The lessons that Gary Thomas--bestselling author of Sacred Marriage--offers are timeless. But in this edition, Thomas adds in some additional insights and stories that he's learned and lived over the past fifteen years of his own parenting. He has found that the lessons have remained much the same, but there are new applications for the readers in this generation who are just now coming to his book.

About Gary Thomas

Gary Thomas’s writing and speaking draw people closer to Christ and closer to others. He is the author of twenty books that together have sold more than two million copies and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. These books include Sacred Marriage, Cherish, Sacred Pathways, and the Gold Medallion-award winning Authentic Faith. Gary holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Western Washington University, a master’s degree in systematic theology from Regent College (Vancouver, BC), and an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Western Seminary (Portland, OR).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kylee on September 06, 2023

The most important task is to prepare our children for the day when they stand alone before God and answer to God. An easy read that felt like it took me a while. Lots of biblical truth on what the call to parenting is and ways of sanctification that I can already see playing out. A sacred calling i......more

Goodreads review by Debs on April 19, 2015

Maybe reading Sacred marriage first took a little of the shine off this book for me, in that Thomas has a similar theme running through both books - God uses marriage and parenting to form our character, and draw us closer to him. However, there was enough new insights in this book to rate it highly......more

Goodreads review by Becky on March 07, 2013

This is the second book I've read by Gary Thomas, and just like the first one, it was FANTASTIC. His approach to parenting is refreshing and new - that it's not about what we should do and how we shape our kids but about how having kids allows God to shape us. Contrary to other parenting books I've......more

Goodreads review by Camille on April 28, 2009

"Mothers and fathers, when you give your tiny infant a bath, you are washing God's baby. When you minister to that youngster, can you imagine God smiling down at you? When you fix that hungry six-year-old a peanut butter sandwich, you are feeding one of God's children. Listen carefully -- you may he......more

Goodreads review by Carol on April 05, 2011

If you have a child, ever intend to have a child or have ever been a child...this book is for you. LOVED it!!! Literally, I laughed, I cried, but most importantly, the Lord used it to deepen my understanding of how much He loves me and therefore I am called to love my child and all His other childre......more

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