Resources for Parents

In Keeping Your Kids on God's Side, you'll find 40 of the most common challenges kids face—along with clear, easy-to-understand responses you can discuss together. This book will help you...

encourage open dialogue on issues your kids might hesitate to talk about
replace your children's doubts with the confidence only God's truth can give
equip your kids to build the good thinking skills essential for today

Talking with Your Kids about God

by Natasha Crain

This practical and timely resource gives parents the confidence of knowing what to discuss with their children and how to discuss it in order to facilitate impactful conversations that will form the basis of a lifelong faith. In a friendly, parent-to-parent voice, Natasha Crain identifies 30 specific conversations about God that parents must have with their children, organizing them under the categories of

the existence of God
science and God
the nature of God
believing in God
the difference God makes

Talking with Your Kids about Jesus

by Natasha Crain

Talking with Your Kids about Jesus will give you the confidence you need to have the conversations that matter most in today's skeptical world. In a friendly, parent-to-parent voice, Natasha Crain will walk you through essential topics on Jesus's identity, teachings, death, and resurrection. Each chapter clearly explains what skeptics are saying and provides a concise, easy-to-understand response you can discuss with your child (one that can be tailored for any age).

Faithfully Different

by Natasha Crain

In Faithfully Different, author and apologist Natasha Crain shares how you can live out your faith with conviction, discernment, and courage. You’ll be equipped to:

identify and respond to today’s most significant worldview pressures, such as cancel culture, secular social justice, progressive Christianity, deconstruction, virtue signaling, and more
engage effectively with a world that ridicules biblical truths
defend your faith from misguided influences and live as a bold witness for the Lord

Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies

by Hillary Morgan Ferrer

This mom-to-mom guide will equip you to teach your kids how to form their own biblical beliefs about what is true and what is false. Through transparent life stories and clear, practical applications—including prayer strategies—this band of Mama Bears offers you tools to train yourself, so you can turn around and train your kids.

Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality: Empowering Your Kids to Understand and Live Out God's Design

by Hillary Morgan Ferrer and Amy Davison

In the footsteps of the bestselling Mama Bear Apologetics comes this invaluable guide to training your kids to know and respect God’s design in a world that has rejected it. This book will equip you to:

understand God’s design for gender, sex, marriage, and family as a beautiful portrait that reveals the nature of God Himself
identify the tactics being used to trick children into adopting an unbiblical view of sexuality under the guise of Christian
sounding words like love, ---identity, tolerance, and justice -teach your kids to treat those who hold different beliefs with gentle, Christlike compassion without compromising biblical values

Live Your Truth and Other Lies

by Alisa Childers

In Live Your Truth (and Other Lies), Alisa will help you to: uncover the common lies repeated within progressive circles hold on to the soul-restoring truths that God’s Word offers be empowered to live the way your Creator designed you.

The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between

by Gregory Koukl

In Faithfully Different, author and apologist Natasha Crain shares how you can live out your faith with conviction, discernment, and courage. You’ll be equipped to:

identify and respond to today’s most significant worldview pressures, such as cancel culture, secular social justice, progressive Christianity, deconstruction, virtue signaling, and more
engage effectively with a world that ridicules biblical truths
defend your faith from misguided influences and live as a bold witness for the Lord

Know What You Believe

by Paul E. Little

What does Christianity have to do with anything? What does the Christian faith teach about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit? What do I need to know about angels, Satan and demons? What place should the Bible or a church have in my life? By exploring these and other core questions, bestselling author Paul E. Little leads you into a greater appreciation of a God who has done great things to bring you into a relationship with him through Jesus Christ. He presents ten bottom-line, non-negotiable truths of Christianity using humorous, anecdotal illustrations gathered from years of experience helping believers share their faith with not-yet Christians.

Know Why You Believe

by Paul E. Little

Do science and Scripture conflict? Are miracles possible? Is Christian experience real? Why does God allow suffering and evil?

These are just a few of the twelve most common intellectual challenges to faith that Paul E. Little encountered during his twenty-five years of speaking and teaching in the university. These questions need solid answers, and that's what a million people have already found in this clear and reasonable response to the toughest questions posed to Christian belief.

Parenting for the Launch: Raising Teens to Succeed in the Real World

by Arlyn Lawrence and Dennis Trittin

Key strategies for parents of teens in the crucial window before that "launch" into the real world. Learn how to set them up for success through effective communication, valuing and cultivating their unique strengths, and empowering versus control. Help your teens build a strong personal leadership foundation that will enable them to live successful, independent lives of purpose, integrity, and impact.

Prayer-Saturated Kids: Equipping and Empowering Children in Prayer

by Arlyn Lawrence and Cheryl Sacks

Practical helps and inspiring real-life stories will equip you to teach and mentor children to become powerful lifelong “pray-ers” while your own prayer life is growing right along with theirs.

Training Up the Next Generation: The Power of Truth in Parenting

by Danny and Amy DeWalt

E-Book Online

What is the Truth?
How do I train on it?
Asking these two questions will revolutionize your parenting.
Why? Because Truth is absolute, unchanging and unchangeable. We do not have to react to choices and circumstances and provide urgent correction without lasting change. Instead, we can train our kids to know the Truth, choose the Truth, and live the Truth, equipping them to deal with life's challenges with power and love.

Note: only e-book is available online, for print copies email the author: amydewalt88@gmail.com

Catakids: The New Covenant Catechism for Little Ones

by Joel M. Settecase

A religious primer to help parents teach their young children the essential and primary doctrines of biblical Christianity, in the hope that the Lord will use it as a means to bring our children to repentance and faith in Christ Jesus, and equip them to walk in the Spirit and love the Lord their God with their whole selves.

Raising Spiritual Champions

by George Barna

Carefully blending scripture and sociological insights, Barna explains how parents can lead their children to:

Establish their God-given identity
Develop appropriate life priorities
Grasp the source and significance of truth
Embrace an eternal perspective
Properly define life success
Find compelling meaning and purpose

Podcast Recommendations

Natasha Crain Podcast

by Natasha Crain

Equipping Christians to think biblically about worldviews, apologetics, culture, and parenting in a challenging secular world.

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Christian mom or dad, could you use some encouragement and support? Put your ear buds in for this Christian parenting podcast and get practical, faith-based inspiration through all stages of parenting — raising toddlers, navigating the school-age years, preparing for puberty, and seeing your teen soar with confidence. Hosted by Danny Huerta, in every 8 to 15 minute episode, you’ll hear parenting experts share Biblical truths, effective parenting techniques, and useful resources that will help you feel equipped as a mom or dad in today’s culture.

Stand Up For the Truth

Stand Up For The Truth Podcast is a daily one-hour, live radio podcast tackling tough issues in the church, culture and the world, sharing news of the day that affects Christians.

We invite godly men and women, authors, pastors, Christian leaders, and cultural experts as guests to talk about church and culture trends and topics like: Creation, The Emergent Church, New Age, false teachings, Social Justice, Universalism, Islam, Humanism, marriage, education, government and politics, and Christians conforming to the world. These are just a few of the major issues that we believe we (and you) should be talking about!

Two points about this show that are a big deal: First, we don’t claim to have all the answers. We’re not biblical experts or theologians, but we are passionate about God’s perfect Word and His Church. Second–and most importantly–we aim to glorify Jesus Christ and point you to Scripture as the only authority on absolute Truth.

Mama Bear Apologetics

by Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Mama Bear Apologetics is a podcast for mothers of biological, adopted, or spiritual children who want to learn about how to defend the Christian faith, help give their children reasons for faith, and understand the worldviews that challenge Christian faith in the first place.

Foundation Worldview Podcast

by Elizabeth Urbanowicz

Join Elizabeth Urbanowicz as we seek to answer your questions to equip you to help the kids that God has placed in your care to carefully evaluate every idea they encounter so that they can understand the truth of the Christian worldview.

The MAVEN Parent Podcast

by Brett and Erin Kunkle

The culture is speaking to our kids. At every turn there are new hurdles we must clear in order to pass a strong Christian worldview on to our kids.

In each episode, Brett and Erin Kunkle will guide you through the maze of Christian parenting in a secular culture, with wisdom and a bunch of practical help.

Blessings and Motherhood

by Classical Conversations

Blessings and Motherhood is a podcast for moms at all stages of the parenting journey. Find encouragement in Scripture, embrace comfort in community, and welcome laughter in these honest conversations about navigating the ups and downs of motherhood—because we believe you can hold tissues and confetti at the same time.

The Durenda Wilson Podcast

by Durenda Wilson

Durenda Wilson is the owner/host of her podcast and is a wife to one for 34 years, mom to eight, and nana to 10. She has homeschooled all of her kids from the beginning. She loves to share simple, effective approaches to motherhood, homeschooling, and life in general. These tools are a result of many years of walking with the Lord and finding freedom in letting His voice quiet all the others.

Homeschool

Classical Conversations

We’re the homeschool program that helps you cultivate an inquisitive, thoughtful child through an intentional, community-based approach. Learning together with families like yours, you’re equipped with the tools and support to teach a Christ-centered worldview that’s rooted in the classical model.

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Harbor Christian Homeschool

Harbor Christian Homeschool's Cooperative Program offers families the opportunity to supplement their homeschool curriculum with year-long enrichment classes. We desire to equip children with skills and tools to continually learn for a lifetime.

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Website Recommendations

Plugged In: Entertainment Reviews

Plugged In is a Focus on the Family publication designed to shine a light on the world of popular entertainment while giving families the essential tools they need to understand, navigate, and impact the culture in which they live. Through our reviews, articles and discussions, we hope to spark intellectual thought, spiritual growth and a desire to follow the command of Colossians 2:8: “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.”

The Bible Recap: Chronological Bible reading plan with daily recap

We offer tools that equip millions around the world to read, understand, and love the Bible, which helps them encounter God in a way that transforms their entire lives.

Stand To Reason: Clear-Thinking Christianity

Stand to Reason trains Christians to think more clearly about their faith and to make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for classical Christianity and classical Christian values in the public square.

Got Questions: Your Questions. Biblical Answers.

Got Questions Ministries is an internet based ministry whose mission is to glorify God and reach people for Christ by providing biblical answers to spiritually-related questions. We provide biblically based answers to spiritually related questions through multiple different venues: personal Q&A, articles, translations, audios, videos, apps, social media, podcasts, and Bible studies.