Family Resources - Recommended Books
Recommendations for all ages!
Family Resources - Recommended Books
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Parenting Boys
- Raising a Modern Day Knight: A Father’s Role in Guide His Son to Authentic Manhood – Robert Lewis
- Raising Emotionally Strong Boys: Tools Your Son Can Build On for Life – David Thomas
- Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys – Stephen James & David Thomas
Parenting Girls
- Raising a Daughter after God’s Own Heart – Elizabeth George
- Raising a Modern Day Princess – Pam Farrel
- Raising Worry Free Girls: Helping Your Daughter Feel Braver, Stronger, and Smarter in an Anxious World – Sissy Goff
Parenting Babies, Toddles, & Young Children
- The 20 Hardest Questions Every Mom Faces – Dannah Gresh
- Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms – Gloria Furman
- Tying Their Shoes: A Christ-Centered Approach to Preparing for Parenting – Rob Green
Parenting Teens
- Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens – Paul David Tripp
- Disciplines of a Godly Young Man – R. Kent Hughes and W. Carey Hughes
- Lies Young Women Believe: And The Truth That Sets Them Free – Nancy Demoss Wolgemuth & Dannah Gresh
- So the Next Generation Will Know – Sean McDowell & J Warner Wallace
Parenting, Biblical Sexuality, & Puberty
- Gender: A Conversation Guide for Parents and Pastors – Brian Seagraves & Hunter Leavine
- God Made All of Me: A Book to Help Children Protect Their Bodies – Justin Holcomb, Lindsey Holcomb, & Trish Mahoney
- God Made Babies: Helping Parents Answer the Baby Question – Justin Holcomb, Lindsey Holcomb, & Trish Mahoney
- God Made Boys and Girls: Helping Children Understand the Gift of Gender – Marty Machowski
- God Made Me in His Image: Helping Children Appreciate Their Bodies – Justin Holcomb, Lindsey Holcomb, & Trish Mahoney
- God’s Design for Sex series – Stan and Brenna Jones
- Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids – Kristen A. Jenson
- How and When to Tell You Kids About Sex – Stan and Brenna Jones
- Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality – Hillary Morgan Ferrer & Amy Davison
- Raising Kids in a Hyper-Sexualized World – Eliza Huie
- What does the Bible Really Say About Homosexuality? – Kevin DeYoung
Parenting & Technology
- 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You – Tony Reinke
- Competing Spectacles – Tony Reinke
- My Tech-Wise Life: Growing Up and Making Choices in a World of Devices – Amy Crouch & Andy Crouch
- Raising Kids in a Screen-Saturated World – Eliza Huie
- The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in its Proper Place – Andy Crouch
Parenting, Faith, & the Gospel
- A Father’s Guide to Blessing His Children – David Michael
- Discipleship through Doctrinal Teaching and Catechism – Sally Micahel
- Established in the Faith – David Michael
- Family Discipleship – Matt Chandler & Adam Griffin
- Family Worship: In the Bible, In History, and In Your Home – Donald Whitney
- God Made Me For Worship: Helping Children Understand Church – Jared Kennedy
- Helping Children Understand the Gospel – David Micahel
- Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies – Hillary Morgan Ferrer
- Missional Motherhood – Gloria Furman
- Mothers: Disciplers of the Next Generations – Sally Michale
- Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family – Paul David Tripp
- Show Them Jesus – Jack Klumpenhower
- Safeguards: Shielding Our Homes and Equipping Our Kids – Julie Lowe
- Raising Kingdom Kids: Giving Your Child a Living Faith – Tony Evans
- Reading the Bible with your Kids – Jon Neilsen
- Risen Motherhood: Gospel Hope For Everyday Moments – Jensen and Wifler
- Zealous: 7 Commitments for the Discipleship of the Next Generations – David Michael
Parenting & Discipline
- Caring for the Souls of Children – Amy Baker
- ChildProof: Parenting By Faith, Not Formula– Julie Lowe
- For the Love of Discipline: When the Gospel meets Tantrums Time-Outs – Sara Wallace
- Give them Grace – Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson
- Shepherding a Child’s Heart – Tedd Tripp
Parenting & Prayer
- Big, Bold, Biblical Prayers for the Next Generation – David Michael
- Praying the Scripture for your Children – Jodie Berndt
- Praying the Scriptures for your Teens – Jodie Berndt
- Praying for The Next Generation – Sally Michael
- The Power of a Praying Parent – Stormie Omartian
- Utter Dependence on God Through Prayer – Bud Burk
- 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask and Answer About God – Rebecca McLaughlin
- A Different College Experience: Following Christ in College – Ben Trueblood & Brian Mills
- Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations – Alex Harris & Brett Harris
- Do Not Be True To Yourself – Kevin DeYoung
- Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live – David Platt
- Just Do Something – Kevin DeYoung
- Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream – David Platt
- Surviving Religion 101: Letters to a Christian Student on Keeping the Faith in College – Melissa Kruger
- This Changes Everything – Jaquelle Crowe
- The Purity Code – Jim Burns
- Bible Verses to Remember Series – Sally Michael
- A sweet new series that teaches scripture verses with practical examples. At the end of each book is a resource for parents to help teach the verse to your child!
- Christian Heroes Then and Now
- Chapter books on the life of missionaries. This link takes you to a master list of the books available. But you can find these books in a variety of bookstores!
- Everything a Child Should About God – Kenneth Taylor & Jenny Brake
- Everything a Child Should Know About Prayer – Nancy Guthrie
- Everyone a Child Should Know – Clare Heath-Whyte
- God Made Me series – various authors
- These eight books designed for elementary kids present a Biblical worldview on subjects of babies, the body, gender, sex, ethnicity, disabilities, heaven, and worship.
- Good News for Little Hearts series – various authors
- There are currently fourteen books in this series. These books are fictional stories that bring gospel wisdom and biblical counsel to families. Each story focuses on an animal family’s real-life issues, encouraging young readers toward a growing relationship with Jesus during challenging circumstances.
- Heroes for Younger Readers
- A version of Christian Heros Then and Now for younger kids/more sensitive kids. These picture books share the life of missionaries and are fantastic! They are the picture book versions of the chapter books linked above. This link takes you to a master list of the books available. But you can find these books in a variety of bookstores!
- Little Pilgrims Big Journey series – Tyler Van Halteron
- The Little Voice in Your Head – Andy Naselli
- Tales That Tell the Truth series – The Good Book Company
- Beautifully illustrated storybooks that highlight some key biblical-theological themes while walking through various stories of Scripture, including creation, the birth of Jesus, Paul and Silas in prison, Elijah and prophets of Baal, Daniel in the lions’ den, and more.
- Baby Believer series – Danielle Hitchen & Jessica Blanchard
- Currently eleven books in this series. These books introduce children to basic concepts such as colors, sounds, counting, and opposites, as well as the essentials of Christian faith. They are filled with Bible, creeds, hymns, church fathers, and other articles of faith to help reinforce the content and provide intellectual handholds for learning and memorization.
- For the Bible Tells Me So Series – Kristen Wetherell
- Board books immerse little ones in the gospel, teaching them who God is and why they should love and trust him as their Lord and Savior. Written for kids ages 0–4, each book unpacks an important biblical doctrine through thoughtful language, well-crafted rhythms and rhymes, interactive elements (like hand motions, animal sounds, and a flap with a mirror at the end of each book), and colorful illustrations.
- Tiny Theologians series– Amy Gannett
- Three short books that help describe God’s omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience to kids.
- Tiny Theologian flashcards
- ABCs of theology
- ABCs of God’s attributes
- ABCs of the names of God
- Training Young Hearts – Abbey Wedgeworth
- A new board book series for babies & toddlers! A practical, fun tool for parents raising toddlers. Encourages obedience motivated by God’s love and grace. These resources are adorable for kids, but also have great language for parents to continue to reiterate while teaching!
- Big Beliefs! – David Helm
- Big Book of Questions and Answers – Sinclair Ferguson
- Case for Christ for Kids – Lee Strobel
- Heaven for Kids – Randy Alcorn
- Indescribable Kids books – Louie Giglio
- Long Story Short – Marty Machowski
- Making Him Known series – Sally Michael
- More Than a Story bundle – Sally Michael
- New City Catechism – Tim Keller
- The Ology: Ancient Truths, Ever New – Marty Machowski
- Wonderful: Ancient Psalms, Ever New – Marty Machowski
- The Treasure: Ancient Story Ever New of Jesus and His Church – Marty Machowski
- Who is Jesus?: 40 Pictures to Share with your Family – Kate Hox
- This book was encouraged to use leading up to Easter, but it is a fantastic resource to use year-round!
- Action Bible
- CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students
- ESV Student Study Bible
- ESV Children’s Bible (full-text Bible)
- Make a Different Youth Bible – Ken Castor
- Kaleidoscope
- These books are a great “middle” ground between a storybook bible and a full-text bible. They aim to have every book of the Bible, in beautifully designed single volumes, at an elementary level. Some books even have study guides to go with them! This website also shares audiobooks/Yoto cards, journals, flashcards, and more.
- The Biggest Story – Kevin DeYoung
- The Gospel Storybook Bible – Jared Kennedy
- The Kingdom of God Bible Storybook – Tyler Van Halteren
- Exploring the Bible: A Bible Reading Plan for Kids – David Murray
- The Abide Method – Risen Motherhood
- Meetings with Jesus: A Daily Bible Reading Plan for Kids – David Murray
- Tiny Theologians
- This website has multiple resources for studying the Bible! There are resources created for parents & children to study through the New Testament or Old Testament together, Biblical literacy resources, journals for boys & girls, and multiple theology resources.