Legacy Series Resources
Parenting Books
For All Ages
For Younger Children
Family Devotionals
For Preschoolers (ages 2-5)
For Elementary Children
Parent Devotion Resources
Recommended Children Bibles
Marriage Books
Parenting Websites & Blogs
For All Ages
Shepherding a Child’s Heart
by Tedd Tripp
Provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child’s heart into the paths of life.
Instructing a Child’s Heart
by Tedd and Margy Tripp
Provide children with a consistent, persuasive, biblical framework for understanding the world God has made and their place in it.
by Jean Fleming
Insights on how to develop godly values, vision and character – and how to instill those same qualities in your children.
Praying the Bible for your Children
by David and Heather Kopp (Out of print - order used.)
Guides parents to pray vital things and claim God’s glorious promises for their kids.
Praying the Bible for your Baby
by David and Heather Kopp (Out of print - order used.)
Guides parents to pray vital things and claim God’s glorious promises for their baby.
What is a Family?
by Edith Schaeffer
Explores the problems and challenges facing all Christian families today.
Raising Kids Who Hunger for God
by Benny & Sheree Phillips (Out of print - order used.)
Guidebook to help your children to want to love, know and follow God.
Parenting is Heart Work
by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller
Practical tools to get into your children’s hearts.
by Mark Holman
Practical ideas to help parents establish their homes as the primary place where faith is nurtured.
Spiritual Growth of Children
by John Trent, Ph.D., Rick Osborne, Kurt Bruner
Encouragement and counsel gathered from parents and experts, to help us become intentional about passing on our faith to our children.
“Don’t Make Me Count to Three!”: A Mom’s Look at Heart-Oriented Discipline
by Ginger Plowman
Encourages and equips moms to reach past the outward behavior of their children and dive deeply into the issues of the heart.
Parenting in the Pew
by Robbie Castleman
Guiding your children into the joy of worship.
Wise Words for Moms
by Ginger Plowman
Verse Chart for dealing with different discipline issues.
Everyday Talk: Talking Freely and Naturally about God with your Children
by John Younts
Everyday Talk offers practical, creative ways for parents to talk to their children everyday about God and His ways. Learn how to use ordinary conversations to show your kids the goodness and wisdom of God.
by Michelle Anthony
Provides practical ways to ignite faith in your family.
Parenting Beyond Your Capacity
by Reggie Joiner and Carey Nieuwhof
Provides ideas on how you can increase your parenting capacity by connecting with the church to engage your family in a bigger story.
For Younger Children
Small Beginnings
by Barbara Curtis
While playing, doodling, and just being a kid, your children can also be practicing muscle control, concentration, orderliness and other basics that will help you encourage a toddlers’ natural love of learning.
Creative Family Times
by Allen & Connie Hadidian, Will & Lindy Wilson
Practical ides for building character in your preschool children in three main areas: obedience, spiritual growth and family unity.
On Becoming Babywise
by Gary Ezzo &Robert Bucknam
The principles presented will help parents develop a plan that meets both the needs of a new baby and of the entire family.
Preparation for Parenting
by Gary and Ann Marie Ezzo
The same principles from On Becoming Babywise but more fleshed out with a biblical framework.
For Preschoolers (ages 2-5)
My ABC Bible Verses
by Susan Hunt, Yvette Banek
Hiding God’s Word in Little Hearts through verses, stories and questions.
Read Aloud Bible Stories (Volume 1, 2, 3, 4)
by Ella Lindvall
Wiggles, Giggles & Popcorn
by Kirk Weaver
Spiritual Family Time Activities for Preschoolers.
Bubbles, Balloons & Chocolate
by Kirk Weaver
Spiritual Family Time Activities for Preschoolers.
For Elementary Children
Big Truths for Little Kids
by Susan & Richie Hunt
Teach the basic truths of the Christian faith to your children through verses, stories and questions
Little Pilgrims Progress
by Helen L. Taylor
Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime
by Janet and Geoff Benge
Odyssey Tape Series
by Focus on the Family
Running the Race
by Kirk Weaver
Spiritual Family Time Activities for Preschoolers.
Playing for Keeps
by Kirk Weaver
Spiritual Family Time Activities for Preschoolers.
Seeing is Believing
by Kirk Weaver
Spiritual Family Time Activities for Preschoolers.
Smashed Tomatoes, Bottle Rockets and Other Outdoor Devotionals You Can Do with Your Kids
by Tim Shoemaker
A collection of 24 active, outdoor devotionals written for dads by a dad that dads and kids will enjoy.
Mashed Potatoes, Paint Balls and Other Indoor/Outdoor Devotionals You Can Do with Your Kids
by Tim Shoemaker
A collection of 24 activity-based devotionals for indoors and outdoors that all children will enjoy.
Bashed Burritos, Green Eggs and Other Indoor/Outdoor Devotionals You Can Do with Your Kids
by Tim Shoemaker
A collection of 12 indoor and 12 outdoor activity-based “yawn- stopper” devotionals for older elementary aged kids.
The Deliberate Kids Toolbook
by Heather Joel
A 10 week devotional for families that coincide with the deliberateKids CD.
by Michelle Anthony
A storybook to read and discuss with your children that paints a picture of the hero in the story of the Bible.
Parent Devotion Resources
www.thecrossingchurch.com/resources
Check out our website for media feeds, book recommendations and websites all geared toward helping you grow in your faith.
www.everysquareinch.net
The Crossing’s blog covers a wide range of topics to help you develop your faith and often has posts related to parenting.
We also have a variety of Bibles and other devotional resources available in The Crossing Bookstore.
Recommended Children Bibles
The Jesus Storybook Bible
by Sally Lloyd-Jones
This Bible invites children to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the center of God’s great story of salvation – and at the center of their story, too.
The Rhyme Bible for Toddlers
by Linda Sattgast
The Rhyme Bible Storybook
by Linda Sattgast
The Adventure Bible for Young Readers (NIrV)
Zonderkidz
Marriage Books
This Momentary Marriage
by John Piper
Not a “how to” on marriage but a “why to”.
What Did you Expect?
by Paul David Tripp. Available in May 2010.
A call to engaged and married couples to a grace-based lifestyle of daily reconciliation, marked by six practical commitments.
When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
by Dave Harvey
Encounter the life-transforming power of the gospel in the unpredictable journey of marriage.
Each for the Other: Marriage as it’s meant to be
by Bryan Chapell, Kathy Chapell
An in-depth discussion of biblical truths you can apply to your marriage.
Love and Respect
by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
Reveals why spouses react negatively to each other, and how they can deal with such conflict quickly, easily and biblically.
Reforming Marriage
by Douglas Wilson
Pleasing God in the spiritual aroma of your home and the relationship between husband and wife.
Feminine Appeal
by Carolyn Mahaney
Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother from Titus 2.
How to Act Right when your Spouse Acts Wrong
by Leslie Vernick
See how God is stretching you in the midst of your marital difficulties, learn to respond wisely when wronged, and grow in your relationship with Christ as you yield to his plan.
Sex, Romance and the Glory of God
by CJ Mahaney
Invites husbands to completely revolutionize their romantic relationship with their wives.
Sacred Marriage
by Gary Thomas
What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?
Parenting Websites & Blogs
www.girltalkhome.com
www.biblicalparenting.org