Parables Of A Pastor S Kid

Young Peter Wagner is growing up in the 80's in Wyoming. He is terrified of entering the sixth grade but has a summer to prepare. As the son of a Lutheran pastor, Peter must make choices that most other kids don't contemplate. Not only is he the preacher's kid, he is also adopted, short, dark-skinned, and ambitious. Vacation Bible School, summer baseball, church camp, and urban legends, are the only things standing between Peter and junior high. Peter does his best to find the balance between being the son of a pastor and being a teenager, and the Bible is where he finds his answers.

Advice on how to care for pastors' kids and allow them to find their own faith and identity. Pastors' kids are often burdened by others' expectations, but there is a wonderful solution, both at home and in the church: grace. In this revised, refreshed version of Barnabas Piper's best-known book, the author candidly shares his own experiences as son of pastor and bestselling author John Piper, offering a challenge to our churches and to the families at their very heart: how to care for pastors' kids and allow them to find their own faith and identity. Foreword by John Piper.

Jesus told simple stories about common items; yet his parables profoundly address our hearts and minds. We offer an interpretation, not only about what we read, but also what we think and feel. Parables of Parenthood presents modern biblical scholarship in an accessible writing style in order to model how these ancient stories continue to enrich life in the twenty-first century. Andrew Taylor-Troutman closely analyzes each parable with deep appreciation before applying these interpretations to his life, because he believes the genius of the parables offers a glimpse of the kingdom of heaven in our everyday experience. By interpreting from the author's head and heart, Parables of Parenthood gives new luster to well-known, narrative gems about sowing seeds and lost sheep through personal insights about anxiety and hope. Lessons about wise builders and wicked tenants are illustrated with anecdotes about a baby's food and a grandmother's rocking chair. Through interpretations of other parables, moments as diverse as a beach trip and an ultrasound appointment invite movement from fear to faith. Through the combination of his informed Bible study and practical life experience, Taylor-Troutman empowers readers to connect the teachings of Jesus to our world in comforting and challenging ways.

Paul tells his personal story as a Pastors son and those of several Pastorschildren. However, this book is not only for Pastors Children. It is for anyone and everyone who desires to learn, un-learn, re-learn, earn and stand tall in the challenging race of life. "Paul is a dynamic and charismatic man. He brings with him a strong presence and a lot of energy. He teaches and he learns. The children of pastors don't always turn out as we might expect. Often, they rebel against their parents. Paul is one of those who didn't rebel. He has many interesting stories to tell in this book!" - Dr Jonathan Joseph, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Have you ever wanted to do in-depth studies on the truth in God's Word, but you didn't know where to start? Or are you a new Christian who is looking for a solid foundation into the fundamentals of Christianity and even learn about some of the more controversial and difficult topics? Or maybe you are a non-Christian who is just looking into what Christianity is all about. If you fit into any of those categories, then this book can help you to discover the truth of God's Word and set you up with a solid foundation on what it means to be a Christian. My goal throughout this book is to show the truth that is taught in the Bible, using the Bible itself to back up that truth. This book covers nineteen topics and includes my personal testimony. Some of these topics are: - What Is Truth? - The Gospel - Forgiveness - Creation - The Doctrine of Election

In Luke of Bible Jesus told his audience a famous parable, that is the prodigal son. In this picture book we adapt this story, to make it easy for children to understand the unconditional grace of God.The parable of the prodigal son is a story liked by many pastors and authors. Timothy Keller once wrote a book named the prodigal God to show us the insight of this parable. Sinclair B. Ferguson's By Grace Alone: How the Grace of God Amazes Me and Henri J.M.Nouwen's The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming also focus on this parable. Many artists like Rembrandt and Gustave Doré paint about this parable too. In this picture book for the kids, we combine the insights of the pastors and the technique of the painters, to show the kids the meaning of this parable, hope they can understand the grace and love of the heavenly father in their early age. This picture books is:●Adapted directly from Bible.●Well illustrated and colored.●With the insights of pastors.●Inherited the technique of the famous painters.

Preachers Kid consists of twenty short chapters depicting the happenings in the life of a ministers daughter. In each story, a life lesson unfolds in the process. Sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, these stories invite readers to reconnect with their memories of childhood. It is the authors hope that the reader will have enjoyed the memories and will want to wholeheartedly embrace the future.

Mention the record album Jesus Sound Explosion to a typical child of the 1970s and that person is likely to picture one of those collections that used to be shown on TV (Call now! Not available in stores!). When Mark Curtis Anderson spied a copy in a junk store a few years ago, he knew just what he'd found, and the memories of growing up in a Baptist minister's family came flooding forth. The title of Anderson's memoir is a nod to the live concert album from Explo '72, a kind of evangelical Woodstock emceed by Billy Graham. Explo's crowds of 100,000-plus signaled that enterprising evangelicals were discovering how to use rock and roll in the marketplace of conversion. Anderson was eleven that year, too young to be at Explo but old enough to wish he was. Other preachers' kids may have gazed out at the wider world and craved its movies, clothes, or toys, but he wanted its music. And not just the Jesus-rocker fare of Explo's Armageddon Experience or Children of Truth, but the real stuff, too. Jesus Sound Explosion recalls Anderson's quest for worldliness-through-rock as he came of age under the gaze, he often sensed, of his father's entire congregation. All of the backsliding and revival, idealism and disillusionment one would expect is here, told with delightfully understated humor and set against the sounds of The Guess Who, Yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Bruce Springsteen. Here is a knowing look back on a time when Jesus Christ Superstar climbed the pop charts, The Cross and the Switchblade hit the big screen, and anxious parents played their kids' records backwards in search of hidden messages from Satan.