Instructing a Child's Heart
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd and Margy Tripp provides a crucial foundation for the principles in Shepherding a Child’s Heart, teaching parents the importance of developing and shaping their children’s thinking. This formative instruction is not discipline or correction; rather, it is intentionally building a biblical culture of thought and understanding in our homes.
Instructing a Child’s Heart is an essential “how-to” manual for Shepherding a Child’s Heart, helping parents provide their children with a biblical framework for approaching and understanding all of life.
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- Picks up right where Shepherding a Child's Heart left off
- Provides clear, biblical, and very practical insights into how to instruct a child's heart
- Helps parents give instruction to their children in ways that will persuade them of God's wisdom
The Call to Formative Instruction
- Life Is a Classroom
- Five Goals for Formative Instruction
- The Call to Formative Instruction
Introduction to Formative Instruction
- Three Principles for Communicating Formative Instruction
- Getting to the Heart of Behavior
- The Sowing and Reaping Principle of Scripture
- Authority Is God's Plan
- Giving Children a Vision for the Glory of God
- Wisdom and Foolishness
- Complete in Christ
- The Importance of the Church
Application of Formative Instruction
- Getting from Behavior to the Heart Corrective Discipline - Applying the Sowing and Reaping Principle of Scripture
- Communication
- The Centrality of the Gospel
Top Highlights
“The goal of formative instruction is so that we and our children and our grandchildren may fear the Lord and walk in his ways, enjoying a long life.” (source)
“As children mature, our goal is not to maintain control at any cost; it is rather to persuade. Influence and persuasion are always more important than discipline.” (source)
“We should impress truth on the hearts of our children, not to control or manage them, but to point them to the greatest joy and happiness that they can experience—delighting in God and the goodness of his ways.” (source)
“Our objective when we teach our children is not simply to ensure, by some venerable or socially accepted child rearing method, that our children are not criminals, or that they ‘do well.’ Rather, our desire is that they should love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul and mind. Therefore, formative instruction must be rooted in Scripture, not in what Dr. Phil and Dr. Laura advise, or what Parents magazine recommends or even what the pediatrician tells us to do.” (source)
“Instructing a child’s heart is not simply transferring data from parent to child. It is impressing the heart with truth.” (source)
Biblical. Practical. Pastoral. This insightful book on godly childrearing is everything we would expect from the author who brough 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
If you are (as I am) one of the hundreds of thousands who have found Shepherding a Child's Heart. helpful and insightful, then you will likewise profit from Instructing a Child's Heart. The Tripps have a gift for presenting biblical truth about parenting in ways that are practical. God-centered, Gospel-driven, and compassionate. If you need help and hope in the raising of your children - and what parent doesn't - read this book.
—Donald S. Whitney, author of Spiritual Disciples for the Christian Life, professor of biblical spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The Tripps have once again written a book that will shape our children's parenting style and will have direct impact on our grandchildren. Instructing a Child's Heart will help them avoid all the behavioristic manipulation and threatenings that sadly marked our parenting ans is seen so frequently in our churches. I heartily recommend it.
—Elyse Fitzpatrick, author of Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Lives
- Title: Instructing a Child's Heart
- Authors: Margy Tripp, Tedd Tripp
- Publisher: Shepherd Press
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 187
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Parenting › Religious aspects; Teaching › Religious aspects
- ISBNs: 9780983099062, 9780981540009, 9780981540047, 0983099065, 0981540007, 098154004X
- Resource ID: LLS:9780983099062
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:43:46Z