Keeping Your Kids on God's Side

Natasha Crain

Description

Empower Your Kids to Respond Wellto the Hard Questions That Threaten Their Faith It's no secret that children of all ages are being exposed to negative criticism of Christianity as they spend time at school, with friends, or online. Are you prepared to talk with your kids about how they can effectively answer the tough questions that come their way? In Keeping Your Kids on God's Side, you'll find 40 of the most common challenges kids facealong with clear, easy-to-understand responses you can discuss together. This book will help you...encourage open dialogue on issues your kids might hesitate to talk aboutreplace your children's doubts with the confidence only God's truth can giveequip your kids to build the good thinking skills essential for today "I almost wish my children were young again so I could use Natasha Crain's book with them." Nancy Pearcey Bestselling author of Total Truth

Informations

• Publié par: Harvest House Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780736965095
• Langue: English

Extrait

Endorsements
I consider Keeping Your Kids on God s Side to be an important, eye-opening gateway book. Natasha has done a wonderful job of quickly introducing the important issues and evidences from the perspective of a parent. She s engaging, thoughtful, and she knows how to throw the ball so you can catch it. Let Keeping Your Kids on God s Side serve as an introduction to the most important work you will ever do as a parent.
J. Warner Wallace
author of Cold-Case Christianity and God s Crime Scene
international speaker, professor at Biola University
I almost wish my children were young again so I could use Natasha Crain s book with them. Through her parenting blog, Crain has access to the most important questions and challenges parents are hearing from their children today. She writes in strong, vigorous prose and does a great job of pitching her answers at a level that parents can understand-and, even more importantly, that they can use.
Nancy Pearcey
author of Total Truth and Finding Truth
apologetics professor, Houston Baptist University
Keeping Your Kids on God s Side is a timely and much-needed book. Natasha provides a road map so parents feel equipped to have the critical (and difficult) faith conversations with their kids. If you want to see your kids have a vibrant faith, then get this book and start having these conversations with your kids today!
Sean McDowell
author of more than 15 books, including A New Kind of Apologist
international speaker, professor at Biola University
Keeping Your Kids on God s Side is an outstanding resource every Christian parent should have in their home library this book is the most accessible, non-intimidating treatment of key apologetics issues I ve seen to date, and I will be recommending it to every parent I encounter!
Melissa Cain Travis
Assistant Professor of Apologetics, Houston Baptist University
author of Young Defenders series of apologetics books for kids
Parents, wake up. The secular culture is challenging our kids like never before and we ve got to prepare them for the barrage of false ideas they will most certainly face. Apologetic conversations are no longer optional; they re a necessary part of our kids discipleship. Thankfully, Keeping Your Kids on God s Side is the resource we all need. It s accessible and comprehensive, and it will equip you to engage your kids in conversations that count, big time.
Brett Kunkle
Student Impact Director
Stand to Reason
Many well-intentioned, godly parents unknowingly send their children out into the world malnourished by an insufficient diet of evidence for their faith We know. Ratio Christi sees it every day in our chapters on high school and college campuses. Students come to us starving for ways to defend their faith from intellectual assault. As the director of parent outreach at Ratio Christi, I ve been looking for a tool to recommend to parents so they can start this training early at home. This is it. Start feeding your family a steady diet of Keeping Your Kids on God s Side to strengthen their hearts and minds for the battles against the secular smorgasbord they will face.
Julie Loos
Director, Ratio Christi Boosters
As a youth pastor, I m thrilled to see an apologetics book written with parents in mind! It is not a matter of if your children or students will encounter arguments against Christianity, but when . Questions will come, and when they do, where will your kids find answers? The Internet? Their college professors? Atheist friends? We need to take responsibility to equip ourselves to be that resource this book will help you do just that!
Patrick Brown
Student Ministries Director
Whitehaven Road Baptist Church
As a pastor over family ministries, I am very excited about this book! It answers many of the strong objections against Christianity in amazing depth, yet in such a clear manner that even someone new to apologetics can easily understand it.
Jared Novak
Family Pastor
New Life Church Bonita Springs
I strongly recommend Keeping Your Kids on God s Side for parents who need brief but trustworthy answers to the skeptical objections their kids are likely to encounter It is rare that so much solid information is found in one accessible resource!
Douglas Beaumont
Professor of Theology, Belmont Abbey College
Aside from the Bible, Keeping Your Kids on God s Side has just become the most important book in our house. Natasha walks you through all the tough questions in such a way that it makes conversations with your kids easy To be honest, this book has helped me with things I ve wrestled with myself! I will be buying a copy for every parent I know and care about.
Mirinda
mom of 3
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
All Scripture quotations are from The ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version ), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Cover by Koechel Peterson Associates, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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KEEPING YOUR KIDS ON GOD S SIDE
Copyright 2016 Natasha Crain
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Crain, Natasha, 1976-
Keeping your kids on God s side / Natasha Crain.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-7369-6508-8 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-6509-5 (eBook)
1. Christian education of children. 2. Christian education-Home training 3. Apologetics. I. Title.
BV1475.3.C73 2016
248.8 45-dc23
2015017112
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Dedication
To my wonderful husband, Bryan, and our three dear children. May we continually grow strong in the Lord together.
Contents
Endorsements
Dedication
Foreword by J. Warner Wallace
What Your Kids Need for a Confident Faith
Part 1: Conversations About God
1. What evidence is there for God s existence?
2. How could a good God allow evil and suffering?
3. Why would God command the genocide of the Canaanites?
4. How can a loving God send people to hell?
5. How can God judge people who have never even heard about Jesus?
6. Why would God need people to worship Him?
7. Why is God so hidden?
8. Is faith in God the opposite of reason?
Part 2: Conversations About Truth and Worldviews
9. What is the difference between objective and subjective truth?
10. Do all religions point to the same truth?
11. How can Christians claim they know what is objectively true?
12. How can personal experience help determine what is true?
13. How can common sense help determine what is true?
14. If Christianity is true, why are there so many denominations?
15. Is Christianity responsible for millions of deaths in history?
16. Are Christians less intelligent than atheists?
Part 3: Conversations About Jesus
17. How do we know Jesus existed?
18. Did Jesus really claim to be God?
19. Did Jesus followers really believe He was God?
20. Why did Jesus need to die on the cross for our sins?
21. What are the historical facts of the resurrection that nearly every scholar agrees on?
22. What are the major theories people use to explain those facts?
23. Why do Christians believe a supernatural resurrection best explains the facts?
24. How can Christians believe miracles are even possible?
Part 4: Conversations About the Bible
25. How were the books in the Bible selected?
26. Why were books left out of the Bible?
27. How do we know we can trust the Bible s authors?
28. How do we know the Bible we have today says what the authors originally wrote?
29. Does the Bible have errors and contradictions?
30. Does the Bible support slavery?
31. Does the Bible support rape?
32. Does the Bible support human sacrifice?
Part 5: Conversations About Science
33. Why do Christians have varying views on how and when God created the world?
34. What is young-Earth creationism?
35. How do mainstream scientists estimate the age of the Earth?
36. What is old-Earth creationism?
37. What is evolution?
38. What are the major pieces of evidence for evolution?
39. What are the major challenges to evolution?
40. What is intelligent design?
10 Tips for Having Deeper Faith Conversations with Your Kids
Notes
About the Publisher
Foreword
As a youth pastor, my first class of graduating seniors proved how difficult it can be to keep your kids on God s side. By the time they first returned from university (at Christmas break in their freshman year), most were no longer Christians. I couldn t believe it, and I felt like a terrible pastor. I had these students for their entire senior year of high school, yet nothing I taught them seemed to make an impact on the decisions they made in the first ten weeks at university. It was then that I realized the error of my inaugural year as a youth pastor. I had entertained them, helped them to form friendships in our youth group, and maybe even inspired them to be better human beings. But I hadn t given them sufficient reason to believe Christianity was true.
I quickly shifted gears. I was a part-time pastor and full-time homicide detective; my journey to faith was characterized by a careful examination of the evidence related to the existence of God and the