My First, Second & Third Attempts at Parenting: Discovering the Heart of Parenting

by Steve Murrell

Plenty of parenting books focus on how to fix bad behavior. Not so many focus on how to cultivate a child's heart. Even fewer focus on how to deal with our own hearts as parents.My First, Second & Third Attempts at Parenting is not a how-to book. It's a collection of stories and reflections designed to help you discover the elusive, yet most important, part of the heart. Chapter by chapter, story by story, we will examine God's heart toward children and our hearts as parents, as well as how we can prepare our children's hearts to know and love their heavenly Father. 

Genres: Parenting

267 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 4, 2016

About the author

Steve is cofounder and president of Every Nation Churches & Ministries, a family of churches focused on church planting, campus ministry, and world mission.

Steve serves on the board of the Real LIFE Foundation, a Christian non-profit with the vision of seeing thousands of marginalized Filipino youth educated, gainfully employed, and uplifting their communities.

After living in the Philippines for twenty-four years, the Murrells now split their time between Manila and Nashville. Their three adult sons were born and raised in the Philippines and now reside in the United States.

When in Nashville, Steve serves on the Bethel Franklin leadership team.

Reviews

[Rafferty]

The best book on parenting I've read

This book is probably the best book on parenting I read. I've only read around 3 other books, but my assessment is that most other books focus on how to discipline and raise children (some focuses on theory while others focus on actual how-tos). This book, however, focuses on the heart. And as the direction of your heart as a parent changes, your children will follow.

[Azir Gamboa]

A very well written book About the heart of parenting. Made me reminisce about my childhood days. Help me be reminded to always have the right heart in being a mother.

[Hanna Del Rey]

This is more like an evangelism book than parenting. Only the last chapter had real parenting insights, the rest are gospel stuff and memoirs that felt like bragging to me. Still got some nuggets of wisdom from that last chapter though!

[Niel Knoblauch]

A reorienting book in classic Steve Murrell style. Quick read that will require some digesting. To be a parent is to train the next generation: engaging, establishing, equipping and empowering your children.