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This true, but griping tale leads you from Ethiopia, America and into the hearts of those effected by AIDS. I had never had sympathy for those with AIDS until I saw the truth of how it effects people, children and families that love each other. It broke my heart with each chapter and child left to fend for themselves. More than that I have questioned how I could choose not to see sickness, poverty and the fatherless how Christ sees them. It has convicted me to the core and pointed out the complete sinfulness of this polished life I am blessed to live.

While reading this book my daughter got a very bad bout of the stomach flu. She got very dehydrated. We were fortunate to be able to take her 3 miles to an ER and have her receive several rounds of fluids and admitted for watchful care until her high fever went down. The whole time I held her and cried, thinking that some poor mother in Ethiopia or Asian or else where was with out that hope. She was hundreds of miles from even the most basic medical care, with out any money and even with out clean fluid to give her sweet baby. If I were her my baby would have died! I prayed all night for God to grant those women hope and what they needed, to save their babies as he was surely saving mine!
Now what do I do? That is the place I am at. How do I know this and do nothing? ]]>
author: Melissa Fay Greene
name: Marci
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 04/08
date added: 05/10/08
shelves: favoritebooks
review:
This book really taught me a lot both intellectually and personally. It taught me that I haven't the first clue about poverty, the orphan crisis, about Africa and about AIDS. The author writes in a journalistic style about a current day Ethiopian woman who after the death of her husband and later her daughter decides to enter a life of hermitude. As she goes to say her good byes to a priest friend he asks her to take in a street girl and care for her. She reluctantly says yes. With in a few months she is "mother" to 8 children all orphaned by AIDS or poverty. With in a few years she is running 2 homes of 50 plus children, one for healthy children and one for children with AIDS or HIV. Her dedication to her children, her open compassion and unwillingness to turn any away are humbling and convicting. You are saying in your heart, "You can't take anymore!" in one thought and the next, "But you can't send them off with out help, with out hope!" in the next.

This true, but griping tale leads you from Ethiopia, America and into the hearts of those effected by AIDS. I had never had sympathy for those with AIDS until I saw the truth of how it effects people, children and families that love each other. It broke my heart with each chapter and child left to fend for themselves. More than that I have questioned how I could choose not to see sickness, poverty and the fatherless how Christ sees them. It has convicted me to the core and pointed out the complete sinfulness of this polished life I am blessed to live.

While reading this book my daughter got a very bad bout of the stomach flu. She got very dehydrated. We were fortunate to be able to take her 3 miles to an ER and have her receive several rounds of fluids and admitted for watchful care until her high fever went down. The whole time I held her and cried, thinking that some poor mother in Ethiopia or Asian or else where was with out that hope. She was hundreds of miles from even the most basic medical care, with out any money and even with out clean fluid to give her sweet baby. If I were her my baby would have died! I prayed all night for God to grant those women hope and what they needed, to save their babies as he was surely saving mine!
Now what do I do? That is the place I am at. How do I know this and do nothing?
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author: P.D. James
name: Marci
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2006
rating: 2
read at: 11/07
date added: 05/10/08
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Um... not really sure what to say about this book. A few things come to mind. 1. This book isn't anything like the movie. Don't read it expecting anything to be the same, because it isn't other than the concept that there is world wide infertility and a woman finds herself pregnant for the first time in 20+ years. 2. The author does a good job exploring the complete hopelessness that a world with out new life and children would have. She shows how this has effects globally, nationally and personally. It was interesting to reflect upon the joy and purpose that the simple aspect of children bring to the world. With out them we have no purpose or reason for continuation, learning and growing as a society. 3. I thought she could have developed a better, more meaningful plot. I felt unfulfilled and still questioning so much at the end. I was frustrated by the majority of the characters, especially Jillian and her sudo faith in God. She wasn't a convincing Christian, and I doubt the author's knowledge/experience in this area.
]]> 17088389 Sat, 10 May 2008 19:49:06 -0700 However, I feel like we tend to abuse this and don't allow ourselves to receive the full measure of blessing that a Sabbath's rest can have for us and more importantly what God intended for the Sabbath. Out of the Ten Commandments the longest most specific command is that of keeping the Sabbath. It tells us a few things: 1. to remember the Sabbath, 2. to keep it holy, 3. that we work 6 days, but the 7th is to be kept for the Lord, 4. no one in our house or in our employment is to work on the Sabbath, 5. that the Lord modeled the Sabbath in creation, 6. we are reminded again that the Lord blessed the Sabbath and made it holy. It also amazes me how seriously God takes this command in the old testament. Much of the reason the Lord sent Israel into bondage was because of their failure to keep this simple blessed command. In the book of Nehemiah he realized this and after re-building the walls and leaving for some time he returns to find work being done on the Sabbath this is his response, "I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day? Didn't your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity upon us and upon this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath." (Neh. 13:17)
It got me to thinking that in many ways we aren't trained as children to keep the Sabbath, just like it had been in Israel for several generations. We don't know what a day of rest even looks like. Is it a day watching TV or playing sports all day? Is it worshiping the Lord and sitting in candle light twiddling our thumbs? This is a question that Judaism has pondered since well, probably before Nehemiah's time, but the general consensus is that any thing considered work isn't to be done for sundown of one day to sundown of the next day. Work is most commonly defined as commerce (any buying or selling), changing of the natural course of nature, and doing anything that is tiring of the mind or body. Somethings are actually encouraged on the Sabbath in Judaism tradition: light exercise (like walking), enjoy the fruit of the marriage bed :), games and fun as a family, fellowship with others, and worship of God. Still, the Sabbath isn't easy to keep.
Just today I tried to keep the Sabbath as a day of total rest, yet two things kept nagging at me, first all the work around me that needed to be done, and second that straying from my normal routine to rest isn't at all in my nature. I felt lazy or unproductive not being able to do my normal daily routine of work. One quote in the book, really struck me, "Show me a person that can't get their work done in six days and I will show you a person that can't get their work done in seven." It is true, it must be a priority and something that is intentionally set aside to the Lord. Also, the author noted that it is a common Jewish thought that the Sabbath is one of God's ways of reminding us to hand our burdens to the Lord; that the one day we cease to work the work of nature and of the Lord is taking our place. Fields still grow, rain still comes, the Lord never slumber or sleeps and in that we must place our trust and be humble enough to lay down the tools of our trade in faith of a God who works for us. What an encouraging promise!
The author closes her discussion on the Sabbath with these words, "Beyond the weekly refreshment it provides, this kind of time also nourishes an alternative vision of how things could be. It sows seeds of resistance to the unjust arrangements the deny freedom both to those who must work with out respite and to those who chose to do so. It lets us see that things could be otherwise than they are. Just as society challenges Sabbath, so Sabbath challenges society." I had never thought of the benefits that the Sabbath brings to all in our society. All are even some what effected by it, even if they don't fully observe it.
So, here is to another week of work, another Sabbath to enjoy and to practice resting in the fullness of the Lord's blessings and promises!]]>
author: Dorothy C. Bass
name: Marci
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 03/08
date added: 05/10/08
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I enjoyed this book, but I learned a lot about one thing it discusses: the Sabbath; what was it in Biblical times, why God gave it to us, why we are to keep it holy and unto the Lord, how it has changed in Christianity, and how it is still relevant today. It got me to thinking that I am not good at all at keeping the Sabbath, sure I go to church every Sunday, I worship and serve the Lord through out my week, but I do not keep a day set aside for rest (neither Saturday or Sunday). The author is quick to note that we don't need to feel burden by the Sabbath in rules and regulations, Jesus himself said, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
However, I feel like we tend to abuse this and don't allow ourselves to receive the full measure of blessing that a Sabbath's rest can have for us and more importantly what God intended for the Sabbath. Out of the Ten Commandments the longest most specific command is that of keeping the Sabbath. It tells us a few things: 1. to remember the Sabbath, 2. to keep it holy, 3. that we work 6 days, but the 7th is to be kept for the Lord, 4. no one in our house or in our employment is to work on the Sabbath, 5. that the Lord modeled the Sabbath in creation, 6. we are reminded again that the Lord blessed the Sabbath and made it holy. It also amazes me how seriously God takes this command in the old testament. Much of the reason the Lord sent Israel into bondage was because of their failure to keep this simple blessed command. In the book of Nehemiah he realized this and after re-building the walls and leaving for some time he returns to find work being done on the Sabbath this is his response, "I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day? Didn't your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity upon us and upon this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath." (Neh. 13:17)
It got me to thinking that in many ways we aren't trained as children to keep the Sabbath, just like it had been in Israel for several generations. We don't know what a day of rest even looks like. Is it a day watching TV or playing sports all day? Is it worshiping the Lord and sitting in candle light twiddling our thumbs? This is a question that Judaism has pondered since well, probably before Nehemiah's time, but the general consensus is that any thing considered work isn't to be done for sundown of one day to sundown of the next day. Work is most commonly defined as commerce (any buying or selling), changing of the natural course of nature, and doing anything that is tiring of the mind or body. Somethings are actually encouraged on the Sabbath in Judaism tradition: light exercise (like walking), enjoy the fruit of the marriage bed :), games and fun as a family, fellowship with others, and worship of God. Still, the Sabbath isn't easy to keep.
Just today I tried to keep the Sabbath as a day of total rest, yet two things kept nagging at me, first all the work around me that needed to be done, and second that straying from my normal routine to rest isn't at all in my nature. I felt lazy or unproductive not being able to do my normal daily routine of work. One quote in the book, really struck me, "Show me a person that can't get their work done in six days and I will show you a person that can't get their work done in seven." It is true, it must be a priority and something that is intentionally set aside to the Lord. Also, the author noted that it is a common Jewish thought that the Sabbath is one of God's ways of reminding us to hand our burdens to the Lord; that the one day we cease to work the work of nature and of the Lord is taking our place. Fields still grow, rain still comes, the Lord never slumber or sleeps and in that we must place our trust and be humble enough to lay down the tools of our trade in faith of a God who works for us. What an encouraging promise!
The author closes her discussion on the Sabbath with these words, "Beyond the weekly refreshment it provides, this kind of time also nourishes an alternative vision of how things could be. It sows seeds of resistance to the unjust arrangements the deny freedom both to those who must work with out respite and to those who chose to do so. It lets us see that things could be otherwise than they are. Just as society challenges Sabbath, so Sabbath challenges society." I had never thought of the benefits that the Sabbath brings to all in our society. All are even some what effected by it, even if they don't fully observe it.
So, here is to another week of work, another Sabbath to enjoy and to practice resting in the fullness of the Lord's blessings and promises!
]]> 8771076 Sat, 10 May 2008 19:48:45 -0700 Since reading this book we as parents have learned how to be the leaders of our home, how to worship together as a family and how to go to the Lord on our children's behalfs. I had been struggling with a lack of joy in my daily life, but since we have started worshiping together my joy and excitement has returned and my attitude much improved when my days as a mommy are difficult because I go back to the songs we sing and the lessons we started our day with. I can't wait to see how we continue to grow as a family in the Lord!
Please read this book, you will walk away with a new (or old) out look on your role as a Christian parent! Expect your heart and life to be changed!!!]]>
author: Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
name: Marci
average rating: 4.73
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 12/08
date added: 05/10/08
shelves: favoritebooks
review:
In this stage of our lives, with the exception of the Bible, this book has done more to promote growth and change in our live than any other book. Both my husband and I have read it at the same time and through it we have been able to understand how to apply the words that God has toward parents and the plan he has for discipling and training our children in Him. I don't want to walk step by step of what the author teaches, but just to say that if you desire to have a family and children that is centered around the Lord and you know you need to learn how to teach your children about the Lord then this book is a wonderful place to start. Baucham is easy to read, practical and Biblical. He brings things back to the basics and shows you how the currently excepted model of teaching children about God (sunday school and youth group) is failing our children and is a far cry from the plan that God has clearly set up for us.
Since reading this book we as parents have learned how to be the leaders of our home, how to worship together as a family and how to go to the Lord on our children's behalfs. I had been struggling with a lack of joy in my daily life, but since we have started worshiping together my joy and excitement has returned and my attitude much improved when my days as a mommy are difficult because I go back to the songs we sing and the lessons we started our day with. I can't wait to see how we continue to grow as a family in the Lord!
Please read this book, you will walk away with a new (or old) out look on your role as a Christian parent! Expect your heart and life to be changed!!!
]]> 17756337 Sat, 10 May 2008 19:48:26 -0700
author: Donald Miller
name: Marci
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 04/08
date added: 05/10/08
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Interesting...thought provoking...makes me want to love others more and act out my faith in more tangible ways! He writes many things I am not sure I would hold up and hang on to as something that defines my faith. However, even in those things I think that he is more writing about his Christian journey and all of us have faults and short-sightedness in our own journeys.
]]> 8771063 Sat, 10 May 2008 19:48:10 -0700 I often find myself getting disgruntled at the seeming futility of housework. The authors address this issue, that it is easy to get bogged down in the day to day of running a home to not see the bigger and brighter side of homemaking: that homemaking is a measurable job that a wife sees the direct benefit from her labors and that is truely one of the only jobs (unless you are a CEO) that one is fully in complete control over the management and outcome of ones own labor. This really helps me to be thankful that I am "chained to my stove" and not behind the desk serving someone else while I have to worry about who is caring for my children and my home that is still waiting to be managed on the side. I, in essence, am the CEO of my own little corperation. LOL! Over all, I really enjoyed this book and it helped me to see my role as a wife and mother in another light...perhaps how God sees me and my service at home.]]>
author: Jennie Chancey and Stacy McDonald
name: Marci
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 11/07
date added: 05/10/08
shelves: favoritebooks
review:
I love being a housewive, but like most women (weather a worker at home or in the workforce) I often become disgruntled easily with my circumstances. I guess it is the mentality that the "grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." That said, this book is filled with a lot of hope, perspective and biblical wisdom on the most valuable role of mother and wife. The authors are two mothers of very large and conservative families, but what they said about God's view of the homemaker really encouraged me, with out pushing me to the edge of perfectionistic desperation that most books about being a wife do. I think the most important thing I gained from the book is sumed up in this quote by Martin Luther, "What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow." It is encouraging to view my daily duties as sacred offerings to the Lord... even kingdom impacting.
I often find myself getting disgruntled at the seeming futility of housework. The authors address this issue, that it is easy to get bogged down in the day to day of running a home to not see the bigger and brighter side of homemaking: that homemaking is a measurable job that a wife sees the direct benefit from her labors and that is truely one of the only jobs (unless you are a CEO) that one is fully in complete control over the management and outcome of ones own labor. This really helps me to be thankful that I am "chained to my stove" and not behind the desk serving someone else while I have to worry about who is caring for my children and my home that is still waiting to be managed on the side. I, in essence, am the CEO of my own little corperation. LOL! Over all, I really enjoyed this book and it helped me to see my role as a wife and mother in another light...perhaps how God sees me and my service at home.
]]> 17087953 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:55:57 -0800
author: Corrie Ten Boom
name: Marci
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 02/08
date added: 03/05/08
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The story of Corrie Ten Boom's early years, prior to WWII. It was an interesting read on how she became the kind of woman capable of such bravery and perseverence. She told about the productive and industerous life she had in her early adult years leading girl's clubs for her city and how her father, sister and her foster parented many children during WWI and after. What an amazing woman to seek to be like!
]]> 9862577 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:59:49 -0800
author: Don Piper
name: Marci
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 11/07
date added: 12/02/07
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I read nearly all of this book over Thanksgiving, but had to leave it when we left family. This is a very convincing account of a pastor who died and went to Heaven only to be sent back to earth after a horrible car crash. I was skeptical at first, but really found that what he said was not only plausible, but quiet well supported. His account of Heaven was amazing and Biblical. What I didn't enjoy about this book was his account of the horrible journey of healing he had to go through. It just depressed me. That said, I still recommend it. It helped me to refocus on the amazing promises that await me in Heaven!!!
]]> 8771095 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:17:02 -0800
author: David McCasland
name: Marci
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 10/07
date added: 11/06/07
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Every seen Chariots of Fire? This book is the full life story of this man of God. Most people don't know that Eric Liddell was not only a runner, but went to China to be a missionary (just as his parents had done). China during the 30's and 40's was a very unsettled place. Communism was just coming into power and with it the fear and hatred of religion. When Japan took over China all American's were put into prison camps. Luckily, Eric's wife and young daughters were able to leave prior to this, but Eric stayed behind and spent his last years in the prison. However, Eric a teacher and always optimistic person still served the Lord during this difficult time and tried to make the best of the situation. Good account, well written and interesting!
]]> 8771010 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:16:07 -0800
author: Ron Hall
name: Marci
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 10/07
date added: 11/06/07
shelves: favoritebooks
review:
I recently read this book for a book club I am in. It is a true story co-written by two very different men that God brought together in a very unusual way. The first man is a former share-cropper (pretty much modern day slavery). He was raised in rural Louisiana and suffered much because of his race and poverty. He ended up homeless, uneducated and in prison. The second man is a Texan, white, rich and is an art deal. He had the "American Dream" life in every way. However, God saw these two men and brought them together to change inner city Fortworth, TX. with the power of God. It is just a very sad, but inspiring book.
]]> 5248556 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:56:22 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Marci
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/28/07
shelves: favoritebooks
review:
I started reading the Harry Potter series when during a practicum in the 5th grade a student gave me their copy. I was hooked. I have always thought two things about J.K. Rowling: 1. That she hold a lot of power to shape this generation, for good and for bad, 2. that she has an opportunity to show how good conquers evil. Honestly about half way through the series I got real nervous that she was driving messages like adults don't know anything, you can't trust them, etc... But, thankfully all of my doubts were resolved in this last book. In resolving the issues that Harry had about Dumbledor she introduced the concept of faith. Many other faith filled messages are woven through her books: that love conquers all, friendship is powerful, where your heart is there your treasure will be too, on and on! I particularly loved how she described the soul: that it goes on after death and that it is more valuable than anything here in our present life. That isn't something that I think youth, much less most of society gives much thought too; that we have a soul and what is it. As for the Deathly Hallows, I loved it! There were some loose endings for me, but in all I thought it was very well done, creative and supremely enjoyable! I particularly thought she did an exceptional job resolving the conflict with Snape. All along I HOPED Dumbledor was right about Snape, not for the benefit of Snape, but for that of Dumbledor. How could he have been so mistaken, stupid or hopeful to put his trust in Snape??? In the end, It broke my heart and brought me to tears as the truth was revealed about him. It all made sense and I even found myself loving Snape. Long live Harry Potter!!! LOL!
]]> 5248131 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:07:00 -0700
author: Alexander McCall Smith
name: Marci
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 10/06
date added: 08/28/07
shelves: favoritebooks
review:
These books are a series about a woman that starts her own personal detection agency in Africa. The are honestly one of the most enjoyable books I have read. They are wholesome, sweet, exciting, have good character development and aren't too predictable (but perhaps a tad.) I fell in love with Precious Ramotswe the main character. She is a traditional lady with traditional values that is able to make something of herself and follow her dreams! It doesn't get much better than that :)
]]> 5247916 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:57:16 -0700
author: Carmela LaVigna Coyle
name: Marci
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/28/07
shelves: favoritebooks
review:
I read this recently at a baby shower. It is the sweetest book about how girls can be both sugar and spice, love bubble baths and making mud pies. Normally I shy away from books with "feminist agendas" :) but I don't think this is one of them. It is just cute and funny!
]]> 5247600 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:53:37 -0700
author: Tedd Tripp
name: Marci
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/28/07
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Wow! I am almost finished with this, but want to review it any way. I said that Child Training Tips was my favorite parenting book, but I that was before I read this. It isn't a clearly defined 1-2-3 process, but it is Biblical! The main point is that all discipline should bring a child to the understanding that they are a sinner in need of God's grace and forgiveness. How could it get any more difficult as a parent to express this to our children, or having accomplished that, any better???
]]> 2838930 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:09:29 -0700
author: James C. Dobson
name: Marci
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 06/07
date added: 08/03/07
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I have not really "enjoyed" this book. However, it is still something worthy of reading. It is just disheartening knowing that much of our society and government schools are anti-boy. But, I guess I'd rather know the truth, even if it is discouraging.
]]> 2839070 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:08:37 -0700
author: Rick Lawrence
name: Marci
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 06/07
date added: 08/03/07
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WOW! This book has sparked a revival of sorts in my life. A quest to know Jesus and him in his fullness. I am not a youth pastor, but this is one of the best books I have read in a long time about Christianity. The author Rick Lawerence is transparent and real as a writer, sharing his own discovery that Jesus wasn't the focus of his faith. Read it!
]]> 2941712 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:43:46 -0700 That said, he has a very strict view of discipline and child training. And ultimately one needs to use this as a resource and tool to use with discretion, applying it appropriately in your own home. It is easy to see what is his personal oppinion and what is Biblical mandates in the book. He is also very careful to note that parents aren't to be unloving drill sargents that have the only goal of an obedient child. This is stated several times. His last chapter is about LOVE (being the ultimate thing we must teach our child) states that all the training and discipline is for nothing with out teaching our children to love others first.
I guess what I really love is that it is a no nonsense book, that states things simply and straight forwardly, no jargon and fluff here. It is wonderful at breaking down the goals of parenting and what the Bible truly says about training, spanking, and teaching a child about responsibility and love!]]>
author: Reb Bradley
name: Marci
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 01/05
date added: 07/11/07
shelves: favoritebooks
review:
This is one of the most practical discipline books I have read, and I have read many. I first read this book as a teacher. Some one had given it to me after I had been discussing that I was at a loss to figure out the root problem in some of my student's behavior. This book is very Biblically based, every point and position the author holds is supported with scripture. Bradley is really good at pointing out the faults with our societies current popular view of parenting and he gives multiple examples of what using those techniques may develop in your child and home.
That said, he has a very strict view of discipline and child training. And ultimately one needs to use this as a resource and tool to use with discretion, applying it appropriately in your own home. It is easy to see what is his personal oppinion and what is Biblical mandates in the book. He is also very careful to note that parents aren't to be unloving drill sargents that have the only goal of an obedient child. This is stated several times. His last chapter is about LOVE (being the ultimate thing we must teach our child) states that all the training and discipline is for nothing with out teaching our children to love others first.
I guess what I really love is that it is a no nonsense book, that states things simply and straight forwardly, no jargon and fluff here. It is wonderful at breaking down the goals of parenting and what the Bible truly says about training, spanking, and teaching a child about responsibility and love!
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