Raising Purity: Nurturing the Image of God in the Heart of Your Child

by Gerald L. Hiestand

In a society that has long ago abandoned any meaningful commitment to chastity and virtue, raising pure children can be a daunting task. Sadly, for many Christian parents, absolutes in the realm of sexuality have remained entirely too elusive. What exactly is purity? Can it be objectively defined beyond the obvious biblical command regarding premarital sex? Our failure to provide adequate answers to these questions has often left our children in a state of moral uncertainty. The time has come for a clear, biblical and measurable standard of sexual purity. In Raising Purity, Gerald Hiestand sets forth this standard providing an objective definition to the subjective concept of purity. Parents will be challenged to rethink their understanding of human sexuality and learn to nurture the image of God in the hearts of their children.

Genres: Christian, Parenting

163 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Gerald L. Hiestand (PhD candidate, University of Reading) is the senior associate pastor at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the cofounder and director of the Center for Pastor Theologians. He is coauthor of The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision and coeditor of Becoming a Pastor Theologian and Beauty, Order, and Mystery.

Reviews

[Leigh Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok, there were parts of this book I LOVED, other parts I'm going to have to think about. This is one of the Pastor's from our church. His chapters on purity were top notch, his chapters on dating were what I need to think on.