Parenting with Hope: Raising Teens for Christ in a Secular Age

Parenting with Hope: Raising Teens for Christ in a Secular Age by Melissa B. Kruger is an encouraging and practical Christian parenting book for raising teenagers, helping parents navigate the changing teen years while keeping their hope firmly anchored in Christ.

With cultural pressures, social media, relationships, identity and countless voices competing for our teenagers’ attention, parenting teens can sometimes feel overwhelming. Drawing together biblical wisdom, insights from developmental experts and her own experience as a mother and teacher, Melissa helps parents create a home where faith can genuinely grow and teenagers can be encouraged to know and follow Jesus for themselves.

Rather than giving parents another list of rigid rules or promising a perfect outcome, Parenting with Hope focuses on biblical principles, reminding us that God is at work not only in our teenagers, but in us as parents too.

Why We Love It:

We love Melissa Kruger’s warm, Scripture-filled approach to family, discipleship and everyday faith, and we recommend so many of her books here at Bright Hope Books. If you’ve loved Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests, His Grace Is Enough, Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know, The Gift of All Gifts or her newest release, The Good News Family Devotional, this is another wonderful one to add to your bookshelf.

Parenting teenagers in today’s world comes with very real challenges, but Melissa continually brings us back to where our hope belongs — not in perfect parenting or perfect children, but in Christ.

Perfect For:

Parents, step-parents, carers and grandparents navigating the teenage and adolescent years, as well as Christian parenting groups, small groups and book clubs. A thoughtful resource for families wanting to build a Christ-centred home, disciple teenagers and raise teens with a strong foundation of faith.

224 pages.