The Love Dare for Parents: Deluxe Leather Edition Leather Bound – August 1, 2014
Author: Visit ‘s Stephen Kendrick Page ID: 1433682761
About the Author
Stephen Kendrick is an ordained minister who has served families for 20 years in student ministry and associate pastor positions. Along with his brother Alex, he is also a screenwriter (Facing the Giants, Fireproof, Courageous), movie producer, and coauthor of two New York Times best-selling books (The Love Dare, The Resolution for Men). Stephen and his wife, Jill, have six children.
Alex Kendrick is an ordained minister and New York Times best selling coauthor of The Love Dare and The Resolution for Men. He has spoken in numerous countries to students, families, and men’s groups. He is also an accomplished actor, screenwriter, and film director, whose credits include Facing the Giants, Fireproof, and Courageous. He and his wife, Christina, have six children.
Leather Bound: 256 pagesPublisher: B&H Books; Lea edition (August 1, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1433682761ISBN-13: 978-1433682766 Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.8 x 8.7 inches Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #483,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1264 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Family #104633 in Books > Religion & Spirituality
I wasn’t sure how God was going to use this book in my life, but after reading Days 2 and 3 (dealing with patience and kindness respectively), I can honestly say that it was Divine Providence that allowed me gain access to this book. I have struggled with wrongly directed anger issues towards my young son for a while now (getting upset with him for even the slightest mistake), and Day 2 felt like it was written specifically for me. This quote really spoke to me: "Patience is always welcome. It gives people more time to work through their issues. It beautifully diffuses conflict before trouble has a chance to escalate. It whispers peace into situations brewing toward eruption. It’s not a blanket form of tolerance that lets everything go, but rather a wise surveyor of the situation, allowing proper steps to be taken." I think one of my struggles with showing too much patience with my son is that I think he will see it as weakness on my behalf and, instead of bringing him up "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" I will be bringing him up as an unruly child that will embarrass both his mother and I because he thinks he can get away with things all the time. However, the preceding quote really convicted me that showing patience is not weakness at all, but is a much better attribute to default too rather than anger.
"The Love Dare for Parents" is a book that needs to be read by all parents, and then re-read multiple times in order to drive us to our knees and make us more dependent upon God’s grace to love our kids the way that God designed us too.
The Kendrick brothers are at it again! Yeah for all of us who are striving to live every moment of this life intentionally for our creator. We Wachters are huge fans of their films from Flywheel right on through to Courageous. Although I don’t mind saying, Fireproof is our all time favorite. It’s right up there with Disney Cars, which my kids have watched a hundred times if they watched it once. And they certainly did watch it once.
This time the Kendricks have combined the Love Dare they created with Fireproof and the idea of being a purposeful parent they stressed in Courageous to write The Love Dare For Parents. When this came across my email I jumped at the opportunity to review it. The Love Dare has helped so many couples get back to God’s way and purpose for marriage. I couldn’t wait to see what they would do for parents and children. If you are familiar with the original Love Dare you may be asking some of the same questions I was. As the mother of nine children my primary question was how can you implement a one on one plan with so many hearts to reach? Is this going to be the same old kind of parenting book you read day after day? Or will it be like so many sequels to popular Bible studies that are just the same deal with a different cover?
Alex and Stephen answered all my questions right out of the gate. They suggest several different ways to carry out the love day with more than one child. What I decided to do was to follow each day with each of my children. Some days can be carried out with all the children at one time. And when the time comes where I need a day for each child I will do that day for nine days and then pick up again with the next day.
For example day 1 is all about telling our kids we love them.
A few years ago, a movie ignited fires in marriages around the world. It displayed to hurting couples that love is a choice and marriage is a commitment. The movie Fireproof centers around a 40-day challenge called the The Love Dare. A dare for husbands and wives to practically practice unconditional love towards each other.
Three years later, authors Alex and Stephen Kendrick have furthered this dare to include parents. The Love Dare for Parents follows the same concept. 40 days of practical, Scriptural-driven ideas to help a parent "understand, practice, and communicate Christ-like love to their children."
Each day’s chapter includes a Scripture verse, a reading passage concerning the topic, a challenge to implement that day, and space to journal. Eight separate appendixes further the teaching.
To begin, the authors encourage you to take a free personalized parenting assessment. It took just a few minutes to take and showed the strengths and weaknesses of specific areas of my parenting. Then the results showed which days of the challenge would focus on the areas.
The authors grabbed my attention right way with this introductory sentence.
Approximately 6,575 days pass between a child’s birth and his or her eighteenth birthday.
Oooo…that is not may days. Every day, that number is getting smaller and I have less time to love on and mold my children. To prepare them to be used by God and to love others as God would love.
Reading through the challenges, I liked how intentional they were. I can see where focusing for 40 days on my children in this way would be very rewarding. The dares reminded me how precious my children are and how much they desperately want and need my unconditional love.
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