Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

A parent’s capacity to internalize the gospel, with all its implications, has an enormous effect on their marriage, their integrity, and their love for their children. This book will help parents see the importance of this principle. Internalizing the gospel helps parents fear God, sensitizes them to sin, motivates them to enter their children’s world, and causes them to preach the beauty of the gospel to their children through their marriage.

Contents

1. Intellectual Submarines
2. Gospel-Powered Parenting
3. Gospel Fear
4. A Holy Father
5. A Gracious Father
6. The First Principle of Parenting
7. Gospel Fathers
8. Foundations of Discipline
9. Discipline That Preaches
10. Food for the Hungry
11. Gospel Love
12. Amazing Grace

Endorsements 

"Bill Farley’s new book on parenting is rock solid. It is so because it is so profoundly grounded upon the all-sufficiency of the Word of God and the Gospel of grace. When it comes to parenting, Farley is no neophyte; he has been in the trenches raising sinful kids by the grace of God and for the glory of God for two decades. Nor is he going to give you theoretical platitudes; he is honest about his own deficiencies and his great need of Gospel wisdom in parenting. Here is Jonathan Edward’s theology made accessible to depraved parents raising depraved kids in a depraved world. This is, ultimately, a parenting book full of hope, hope grounded in the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
—Douglas Bond, author of Fathers & Sons: Stand Fast in the Way of Truth, and Hold Fast in a Broken World

"Gospel-Powered Parenting is a wise, enduring prescription for parenting because it is joyously biblical and comes from a pastor-theologian who has done it—as his family wonderfully attests. "
—R. Kent Hughes, Sr. Pastor Emeritus, College Church in Wheaton