Parent Resources

While Pastor Josiah cannot endorse everything about each book/author, he does think these books are worth considering and reading.

Parenting Teens

• Age of Opportunity - Paul Tripp

• Parenting - Paul Tripp

• The Disciple-Making Parent - Chap Bettis

• Raising Men, Not Boys - Mike Fabarez

• Trained in the Fear of God - Stinson & Jones

• Lies Young Women Believe - Demoss & Gresh

• Lies Girls Believe - Dannah Gresh

• Family Discipleship - Chandler & Griffin

• Shepherding a Child’s Heart - Ted Tripp

• Missional Motherhood - Gloria Furman

• Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms - Gloria Furman

• 5 Tools Needed to Reach Today’s Teens

• What Teens Need From Parents: A Counselor’s Prospective

• 6 Ways to Bring Light to Heated Talks with Teenagers

• My 3 Big Fears in Parenting Teenagers

• How to ‘Disciple’ Your Kids into Church Dropout Status

• Raising Teens Requires Listening Well

• How Should I Parent My Non-Christian Teen

• The Prayers Our Teens Need Most

• No Teen is Too Far Gone

• Give Your Teenage to God

• Help! My Teen is Abandoning Christ

• Do Your Teens Know That Grace is Enough?

• Parental Mythbusting

• Parent Your Teen Like God Parents You

• Parenting With An Eternal Perspective

• Don’t Be Afraid of the Teen Years with Paul David Tripp

• Fear Factor in Parenting

Anxiety & Depression

• Help! I’m Anxious - Philip DeCourcy

• A Small Book for the Anxious Heart - Ed Welch

• The Dynamic Heart - Jeremy Pierre

• When Pain is Real and God Seems Silent - Ligon Duncan

• When Panic Attacks

• The End of Anxiety (Truth in Love 303)

• Three Truths About Anxiety From Philippians 4:6-7

• The Diseasing of Anxiety and Depression (Truth in Love 260)

• Battling Anxiety and Depression

• Help When Anxiety Keeps You Up At Night -Psalm 4

• Biblical Reasons Not To Worry

• Overcoming Fear, Worry, & Anxiety

• The Bible and Anxiety (Truth in Love 54)

• Promises For Overcoming the Fear of Man

• Adolescent Anxiety and Depression in Time Magazine (Truth in Love 75)

• Counseling Those with Panic Attacks (Truth in Love 285)

• The Bible and the Problem of Hair Pulling (Truth in Love 130)

• A Biblical Response to Panic (Truth in Love 5)

• Helping Teenagers Cope with Stress & Anxiety

• The Anxiety Scale for Teens

Purity

• Finally Free - Heath Lambert

• Overcoming Sexual Sin

• Pursuing Purity Before Marriage

• Pursuing Purity at the Pool

• Law, Grace, and “Purity Culture”

• Women and Pornography

• Purity at the Pool (Truth in Love 104)

• Thanksgiving: Necessary Ingredient for Sexual Purity

• Passions of the Heart

Sex & Sexuality/Gender Identity

• Gender Ideology - Sharon James

• What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality - Kevin DeYoung

• My Teen is Sexually Active - What Can I Do?

Self Image

• What God has to say about our Bodies - Allberry & Tripp

Spiritual Growth

• In His Image - Jen Wilkin

• Disciplines of a Godly Young Man - Kent Hughes and Carey Hughes

• Saved Without a Doubt - John MacArthur

• Fundamentals of the Faith: 13 Lessons to Grow in the Grace and Knowledge of Jesus Christ - John MacArthur

• Thoughts for Young Men - J.C. Ryle

• Respectable Sins (Student Version) - Jerry Bridges

• This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years - Jaquelle Crowe

• Growing in Godliness: A Teen Girl's Guide to Maturing in Christ

• Four Ways Teenagers Live for More

• A Call to Teenagers to Be Free

• Letter to an Incomplete, Insecure Teenager

• Teenage Resolutions for Mom and Dad

• Five Awkward Conversations Every Teen Needs to Have With Their Parents

• A Teen’s Perspective: How Grace Changed My Life

Podcasts/Episodes/Videos

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/c/desiringGod/search?query=teens

Courses:

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/course/difficult-questions-about-children-parenting/#how-do-i-overcome-the-fear-of-failing-at-parenting

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