The Love Dare for Parents Author: Visit Amazon's Stephen Kendrick Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1433668521 | Format: PDF
The Love Dare for Parents Description
About the Author
Stephen Kendrick is best known as a screenwriter and movie producer (Facing the Giants, Fireproof, Courageous) along with having co-wrote the New York Times best sellers The Resolution for Men and The Love Dare with his brother, Alex. Stephen and his wife, Jill, have six children, and he serves as senior associate pastor of preaching and prayer at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia.
Alex Kendrick is best known as an actor, writer, and director whose film credits include Facing the Giants, Fireproof, and Courageous. He and his wife, Christina, have six children. He also serves as associate pastor of movie outreach for Sherwood Baptist Church.
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: B&H Books (July 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1433668521
- ISBN-13: 978-1433668524
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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.
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.
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