Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
Ebook
Overview
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond the chaos of family life as you create a home where kids and parents alike practice how to love God and each other.
You long for tender moments with your children--but do you ever find yourself too busy to stop, make eye contact, and say something you really mean? Daily habits are powerful ways to shape the heart--but do you find yourself giving in to screen time just to get through the day? You want to parent with purpose--but do you know how to start?
Award-winning author and father of four Justin Whitmel Earley understands the tension between how you long to parent and what your daily life actually looks like. In Habits of the Household, Earley gives you the tools you need to create structure--from mealtimes to bedtimes--that free you to parent toddlers, kids, and teens with purpose. Learn how to:
- Develop a bedtime liturgy to settle your little ones and ground them in God’s love
- Discover a new framework for discipline as discipleship
- Acquire simple practices for more regular and meaningful family mealtimes
- Open your eyes to the spirituality of parenting, seeing small moments as big opportunities for spiritual formation
- Develop a custom age chart for your family to more intentionally plan your shared years under the same roof
Each chapter in Habits of the Household ends with practical patterns, prayers, or liturgies that your family can put into practice right away. As you create liberating rhythms around your everyday routines, you will find your family has a greater sense of peace and purpose as your home becomes a place where, above all, you learn how to love.
Top Highlights
“Yes. It is always the smallest routines that build the strongest foundations” (Page 43)
“the greatest spiritual work happens in the normal moments of domestic life.” (Page 24)
“The most Christian way to think about our households is that they are little ‘schools of love,’ places where we have one vocation, one calling: to form all who live here into lovers of God and neighbor.” (Page 15)
“You can’t think yourself out of a pattern you didn’t think yourself into. You practiced yourself into it, so you have to practice your way out.” (Page 10)
“One of the most significant things about any household is what is considered to be normal. Moments aggregate, and they become memories and tradition. Our routines become who we are, become the story and culture of our families.” (Pages 4–5)
- Title: Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
- Authors: Justin Whitmel Earley, Troy Simons
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780310362944, 9780310362968, 0310362962, 9780829774290, 0829774297, 9780310362937, 0310362938, 9780310170020, 0310170028, 9780829774283, 0829774289, 0310362946
- Resource ID: LLS:9780310362944
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-07-09T06:53:17Z