"The Life and Faith Field Guide for Parents " by Joe Carter is an excellent resource for parents. This book is broken down into categories: Skills and habits for Bible engagement,skills and habits for interacting with God, skills and habits for interacting with other people, skills and habits for discernment and decision making, skills and habits for mental and physical health, skills and habits for character development, skills and habits for engaging the culture, skills and habits for managing conflict,skills and habits for evangelism. The book teaches the parent how to teach your child each aspect of the Christian life. It goes step by step. It also shows how to read the Bible and breaks down the Bible in categories. It show the parent and the Christian how to have a daily quiet time and how to memorize God's word. There is a step by step guide now how to make decisions, how to forgive, how to handle criticism. In addition it explains how to study and the best ways to learn and prepare for tests. It addresses also how to choose good TV shows and movies. The last section ends with how to evangelize. This book is a good resource for the youth and elementary areas in the church. They can use these principles with the children, youth and also refer parents to this book. Pastors can even use it for counseling and teaching. This book is excellent for teaching life skills and guiding parents to mentor their children. I appreciate the publisher Harvest House for allowing me to read and review this book . I will post my review on facebook, my blog, Amazon, for pastors and friends, on Goodreads.
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