Parenting First Aid: Hope for the Discouraged
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In this uplifting and faith-strengthening devotional book for Christian parents, best-selling children’s author Marty Machowski encourages parents in the midst of parenting trials to look to the Lord for help. Full of Biblical Scripture, testimonies of faithful parents, and insightful meditations, Parenting First Aid equips Christian parents to run to God and trust his ability to do what they can’t.
Parenting isn’t getting any easier, especially with the introduction of insta-porn on electronic devices, the ease of access to drugs, and the ever-increasing blurring of sexuality. This parenting resource is for weary, Christian parents overwhelmed with parenting, their children’s choices, and the culture that wars against their souls.
For parents with small struggles or weighty parenting trials such as children involved with drugs, sexual sin, and teenage rebellion Parenting First Aid is full of personal, real testimonies of God’s faithfulness to parents experiencing hardship.
The easy-to-use format provides parents with encouraging and faith-strengthening words to trust God in his work in the midst of family difficulty. While God does not promise happiness and ease in parenting, all parents can find comfort in God and peace beyond understanding through the Scriptures and meditations found in Parenting First Aid.
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- Encourages parents facing trials to turn to God
- Equips moms and dads to trust God’s ability in challenging parenting situations
- Provides comfort and peace through Scripture and meditations amidst family difficulties
Marty Machowski’s Bible-saturated, gospel-shaped writing has been a blessing to my family. As a pastor, his devotionals are my go-to resource for family worship. Marty has the heart of a shepherd, the wisdom of a sage, and provides hope-filled refreshment to any parent who is weary or discouraged. Parenting First Aid is a wonderful book that has my highest endorsement, and I encourage you to pick up a copy today.
—Josh Mulvihill, Executive Director of Church and Family Ministry at Renewanation; founder of GospelShapedFamily.com
Parents can wisely face elephant-sized challenges with youth but best with only one forkful of wisdom at a time. Machowski’s book serves God’s wise counsel in bite-size devotionals. This is not so much about what to do as a parent as it is about who to be. The lessons are brief, interesting, and with practical instruction that you can apply immediately. If challenging parenting drains you, exasperates you, confuses you, frustrates you, these weekly meals will nurture you.
—Rick Horne, Author of Get Outta My Face!: How to Reach Angry, Unmotivated Teens with Biblical Counsel and Get Offa My Case!: Godly Parenting of an Angry Teen
Many Christian parents have a rich knowledge of God’s Word, but they don’t always understand how to apply that knowledge to the parenting trials God sends their way and can find themselves in a desert of parenting worries. In Parenting First Aid, Machowski brings the refreshment of Scripture to that desert. I found myself in tears as the rivers of the Word flowed into some parched corners of my life.
—Chap Bettis, Executive Director of The Apollos Project; author of The Disciple-Making Parent
- Title: Parenting First Aid: Hope for the Discouraged
- Author: Marty Machowski
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781945270994, 1945270993
- Resource ID: LLS:PRNTNGFRSTD
- Resource Type: text.monograph.devotional
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-29T18:28:20Z
Marty Machowski is a Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, where he has served on the pastoral staff for over thirty years. He is the author of The Gospel Story Bible, Long Story Short, Old Story New, the Gospel Story Curriculum, the Prepare Him Room advent devotional and curriculum, Wise Up family devotional and curriculum, Listen Up family devotional and curriculum, Dragon Seed, and The Ology. He and his wife Lois have six children and two grandchildren, and they reside in West Chester, Pennsylvania.