Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
Overview
What is your calling as a parent?
In the midst of folding laundry, coordinating carpool schedules, and breaking up fights, many parents get lost. Feeling pressure to do everything “right” and raise up “good” children, it’s easy to lose sight of our ultimate purpose as parents in the quest for practical tips and guaranteed formulas.
In this life-giving book, Paul Tripp offers parents much more than a to-do list. Instead, he presents us with a big-picture view of God’s plan for us as parents. Outlining fourteen foundational principles centered on the gospel, he shows that we need more than the latest parenting strategy or list of techniques. Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God—grace that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents.
Freed from the burden of trying to manufacture life-change in our children’s hearts, we can embrace a grand perspective of parenting overflowing with vision, purpose, and joy.
Winner of the ECPA Book of the Year Award for Christian Living
- Presents an approach to parenting through the framing of Godly purpose
- Discusses various tenets of parenting through guiding principles
- Introduction: Ambassadors
- Calling
- Grace
- Law
- Inability
- Identity
- Process
- Lost
- Authority
- Foolishness
- Character
- False Gods
- Control
- Rest
- Mercy
Top Highlights
“There is nothing more important to consistent, faithful, patient, loving, and effective parenting than to understand what God has given you in the grace of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Page 34)
“Your work as a parent is a thing of extreme value because God has designed that you would be a principal, consistent, and faithful tool in his hands for the purpose of creating God-consciousness and God-submission in your children.” (Page 30)
“If rules and regulations had the power to change the heart and life of your child, rescuing your child from himself and giving him a heart of submission and faith, Jesus would have never needed to come!” (Page 49)
“Successful parenting is not first about what you’ve produced; rather, it’s first about what you have done. Let me say it this way: successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.” (Page 19)
“No one gives grace better than a parent who humbly admits that he desperately needs it himself. Today, with your children, how about being that kind of parent?” (Page 32)
This is the most meaningful book I have read all year. It is both theological and practical, a rare combination for a parenting book. For years, people have asked me to write a book on parenting. After reading this, I am convinced that I could never write one better than this. I’m so glad I read this, but I wish I could have read it twenty years ago. After reading Parenting, I was torn. Part of me wanted to sit, cry, and confess all of my failures as a parent. The other part wanted to scream with excitement for the tremendous insight I now have to be a better parent.
—Francis Chan, New York Times best-selling author, Crazy Love and Forgotten God
Paul Tripp constantly turns us back to the life-giving power of the gospel and God’s unfailing grace. Parenting our children is one of life’s greatest challenges, and Paul points us to the one thing that can make a difference—a genuine encounter with the living God.
—TobyMac, hip hop recording artist; music producer; songwriter
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is simply outstanding. This is Tripp at his best: he shows us the big picture of life with Christ and gets down to the nitty-gritty specifics of walking by grace through faith. Tripp’s manifesto is about more than simply our duty as parents—it’s about our privilege of being ambassadors of Jesus Christ to our kids. Moms and dads from every culture will benefit from Tripp’s call for us to live in light of the grace and hope we have in Jesus.
—Gloria Furman, author, The Pastor’s Wife; Missional Motherhood; and Alive in Him
I am an imperfect parent. You probably are too. Buy this book and soak in it. This is not another ‘5 Steps to Becoming a Perfect Parent’—instead, Tripp wants us to see our relationship to God and to our children through a big-picture lens. My wife and I are always-go-never-stop parents of young children. If you know the feeling, this book will be both challenging and refreshing, and ultimately it will be a great blessing to your journey. Tripp has made me think in a fresh way about the extremely important and tremendously challenging task that is everyday parenting. To raise up a child is a great responsibility—let us take it up with reverence, joy, and a loving heart!
—Jacob Tamme, NFL® tight end
- Title: Parenting: The 14 Gospel Principles that Can Radically Change Your Family
- Author: Paul Tripp
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Pages: 216
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Parents › Religious life; Parenting › Religious aspects--Christianity; Child rearing › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781433551932, 9781433551963, 9781433551949, 9781433551956, 1433551934, 1433551969, 1433551942, 1433551950
- Resource ID: LLS:PRNTNG14GYRFMLY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-02-03T18:50:25Z
Paul David Tripp is a pastor, author, and international conference speaker. He is the president of Paul Tripp Ministries and works to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. This vision has led Paul to write 14 books on Christian living and travel around the world preaching and teaching. Paul's driving passion is to help people understand how the gospel of Jesus Christ speaks with practical hope into all the things people face in this broken world.