Friday, June 6, 2014

Pull Up a Chair

Can I recommend some reading for that lawn chair near your chilled iced-tea glass?

(If you are a mother of small children, use your imagination….)

Mom/Wife/Hospitality Focus:
Glimpses of Grace, Gloria Furman
This is a practical yet substantive look at serving God in your everyday calling as wife, mother, and Chief Do-Everything-Else. How does my life as God’s child flesh this out? How do my frustrations and flops fit in? The author uses transparency and truth to encourage and provoke thought.  Easy-read chapters.






Devotional thoughts to push you beyond your own four walls:
 Gospel Meditations for Missions

With the same gospel meatiness as their other devotionals, the authors  provide a passage of Scripture, then briefly draw truth, insight, and conviction from it text.  If facts and Biblical information are all you want, look elsewhere. But if you want a heart-impacting yet simple selection that compels response from Biblical truth, this devotional offers an oasis.







Parenting Mindset + Method: 
Give them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of God.    Elyse Fitzpatrick & Jessica Thompson
I hope to offer this book in our Fall ’14 Ladies Bible Study,  especially for our young moms.  What is so significant about this book is the strikingly different perspective from which parenting (and all its requirement) springs.  The chapters answer these questions, Why do we insist on obedience? What is the purpose of good behavior? How does correction and training fit into the paradigm of the gospel (children’s sin + God’s grace)?  This book is engaging and thorough and  practical all stirred into one refreshing drink.

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