Three Book Recommendations

I was recently looking thru my old posts and noticed there were a few that were still in draft form that I never posted.  This is one of them.  These are three books that I finished a short while ago, and I want to recommend them to you.  They are all outstanding.

Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp is hands down the best book on parenting I have read yet.  The one thing I won't forget from it is Tripp's emphasis on going after the child's heart rather than the child's behavior.  If you go after their heart, the behavior will inevitably follow.

In God's Big Picture, Vaughan Roberts seeks the big picture of the entire bible.  His conviction is that the whole bible is telling one story, not lots of little stories all disconnected and such.  This book will help you when you are reading through books of the Bible like Leviticus and cannot fathom how in the world this relates to Jesus Christ.

And last but not least, Family Driven Faith by Voddie Baucham Jr.  This is not lay-down-on-the-couch-and-relax book.  Make no mistake about it, Voddie brings it hard.  He hits parents right between the eyes with conviction after conviction on their responsibility to "raise their kids in the way they should go."  It's not the job of a youth pastor, and it's not the job of a Christian school teacher.  It's the parent's job.  So do it.  That's the constant message of Mr. Baucham, and I commend it to you.