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

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

Parenting teenagers brings a whole new season of questions. How do we help our teens develop a faith of their own? How do we navigate cultural pressures, friendships, technology and increasing independence while continuing to point them towards Jesus?

In Parenting with Hope: Raising Teens for Christ in a Secular Age, Melissa Kruger offers biblical wisdom and practical encouragement for Christian parents navigating the teenage years. Rather than giving parents another list of rules or promising a formula for raising faithful children, Melissa helps us anchor our hope in Christ and remember that God is at work in both our teenagers and in us as we parent them.

Bringing together biblical teaching, insights into adolescent development, and her own experience as a teacher and mother, Melissa explores many of the challenges facing Christian families today. Her approach focuses on principles rather than prescriptions, helping parents build relationships with their teens, respond wisely to a changing culture and cultivate a home where conversations about faith can continue to grow.

Why We Love It:

• Hope-Filled Christian Parenting: This isn’t a book about being afraid of the teenage years or the culture around us. It continually brings parents back to Christ as our source of wisdom, strength and hope.
• Practical Without Being Prescriptive: Melissa offers biblical principles that can be applied thoughtfully to your own teenager and family rather than a one-size-fits-all parenting formula.
• Understands the Teenage Years: Combines biblical wisdom with helpful insights into adolescent development and the unique changes that come with raising teenagers.
• Points Us Back to God: A much-needed reminder that ultimately we cannot manufacture faith in our children. We can faithfully disciple, love, teach and guide them while trusting God to be at work in their hearts.

Who This Book Is For:

• Christian parents raising teenagers who want practical, biblical guidance for this new stage of family life.
• Parents wanting to help their teens follow Jesus while navigating the pressures of an increasingly secular culture.
• Parents of pre-teens wanting to prepare thoughtfully for the years ahead.
• Small groups, parenting groups and churches looking for a helpful resource to work through together.
• Readers who love Melissa Kruger’s other books, including Growing Together, His Grace Is Enough, Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know and The Good News Family Devotional.

Parenting with Hope is an encouraging companion for one of the biggest transitions in parenting. It helps us move forward without parenting from fear, trusting that the God who loves our teenagers even more than we do is already at work. A highly recommended resource for Christian parents wanting to raise teens who know and follow Jesus in the world they are growing up in.