Other Items In This Series Devotions For A Sacred Parenting

Sacred Parenting is unlike any parenting book you have ever read. This is not a "how to" book that teaches you how to discipline your kids or help them achieve their full potential. Rather than discuss how parents can change their kids, Sacred Parenting turns the tables and discusses how God uses our kids to change us, the parents!

With the same challenge and inspiration that helped make Sacred Marriage so popular for so many couples, Gary Thomas turns his attention to the spiritual side of parenting; specifically, how the spiritual journey of parenting comprises one of the most influential aspects of spiritual formation that a person will ever know. Unless we are stone cold spiritually, virtual spiritual corpses, the journey of caring for, rearing, training, and loving children will mark us indelibly and powerfully. We cannot be the same people we once were; we will be forever changed and altered.

With his trademark use of history combined with compelling contemporary stories, Gary Thomas will make you laugh and make you cry as he demonstrates how family life tries us as perhaps nothing else does, while also pointing out that this is all part of God's plan to perfect us. Once we realize that we are sinners, and that the children God has given us are sinners, and that together, as a family, we are to grow toward God, family life takes on an entirely new purpose and context. It becomes a sacred enterprise when we finally understand that God can baptize dirty diapers, toddlers' tantrums, and teenagers' silence in order to transform us into people who more closely resemble Jesus Christ.

You've read all the how-to books, now take a step back and receive some much-needed inspiration. The truth is, we are living in the midst of holy teachers. Sometimes they spit up on themselves or on us. Sometimes they throw tantrums. Sometimes they cuddle us and kiss us and love us. In the good and the bad they mold our hearts, shape our souls, and invite us to experience God in newer and deeper ways