Instructing a Child's Heart (Tripp)

Description

From interaction with their peers to the instruction and correction they receive at home, children interpret their experience from a worldview that seeks to answer their fundamental questions:

Who am I? What do I exist for? Where can I find joy?

We need to provide our children with a consistent, persuasive, biblical framework for understanding the world God has made and their place in it.

Instructing a Child’s Heart is essential to Shepherding a Child’s Heart. The instruction that you provide for your children not only informs their minds; it is directed to persuading their hearts of the wisdom and truthfulness of God’s ways.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: The Call to Formative Instruction

1. Life Is a Classroom

2. Five Goals for Formative Instruction

3. The Call to Formative Instruction

Part 2: Introduction to Formative Instruction

4. Three Principles for Communicating Formative Instruction

5. Getting to the Heart of Behavior

6. The Sowing and Reaping Principle of Scripture

7. Authority Is God’s Plan

8. Giving Children a Vision for the Glory of God

9. Wisdom and Foolishness

10. Complete in Christ

11. The Importance of the Church

Part 3: Application of Formative Instruction

12. Getting from Behavior to the Heart

13. Corrective Discipline – Applying the Sowing and Reaping Principle of Scripture

14. Communication

15. The Centrality of the Gospel 

Endorsements

“A biblical and practical sequel to Shepherding a Child’s Heart.“ — Marvin Olasky, World Magazine

“Biblical. Practical. Pastoral. This insightful book on godly childrearing is everything we would expect from the author who brought us Shepherding a Child’s Heart. Its tremendous value comes from the fact that it centers on the essential but oft-neglected heart of biblical parenting: the Gospel of grace. I am glad to recommend it.” — John MacArthur, Pastor-Teacher, Grace Community Church

“As parents of six spunky children, we’ve found Tedd and Margy Tripp’s parenting advice to be simply the best. In a sea of child-raising materials flooding the market today, Instructing a Child’s Heart is a solid rock on which we can stand. Picking up where Shepherding a Child’s Heart left off, this new book is clear, biblical, and very practical. If you have children, you need to know Tedd and Margy Tripp.” — Kirk and Chelsea Cameron, Actors/Speakers