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Grandparenting Matters
Grandparenting: Strengthening Your Family and Passing on Your Faith
Many powerful voices are influencing our grandchildren, from those at home and in their schools to those in the world of entertainment and media. What can you as a grandparent do to speak wisdom and godliness into their lives?
Grandparenting gives you a biblical foundation for investing spiritually in your grandkids, walking you through the principles of influencing them for Christ--from sharing with unbelieving grandkids to discipling them into a mature faith. This book is perfect for individual use, small groups, or Sunday school classes. A Grandparenting DVD is available that features eight family ministry experts with over six hours of video content.
Two other resources are also available:
Biblical Grandparenting is a full-length leadership book that places grandparenting
ministry on a firm scriptural foundation. It is ideal for pastors and church leaders as
well as for use in the classroom at seminaries.
Equipping Grandparents is a brief book to teach pastors how to begin a grandparenting ministry in their church.
Grandparenting gives you a biblical foundation for investing spiritually in your grandkids, walking you through the principles of influencing them for Christ--from sharing with unbelieving grandkids to discipling them into a mature faith. This book is perfect for individual use, small groups, or Sunday school classes. A Grandparenting DVD is available that features eight family ministry experts with over six hours of video content.
Two other resources are also available:
Biblical Grandparenting is a full-length leadership book that places grandparenting
ministry on a firm scriptural foundation. It is ideal for pastors and church leaders as
well as for use in the classroom at seminaries.
Equipping Grandparents is a brief book to teach pastors how to begin a grandparenting ministry in their church.
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238 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 4, 2018
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About the author
Josh Mulvihill
19 books10 followersJosh Mulvihill is the executive director of church and family ministry at Renewanation, which trains children to develop a biblical worldview. He has also served as a pastor for nearly twenty years and is a founding member of the Legacy Coalition and Roots Kids Worship. He is the author of Biblical Grandparenting and the Rooted Kids curriculum and is the editor of Equipping Grandparents. Josh is married to Jen, and they have five children.
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January 24, 2019
Who or what is a grandparent? How do you see your role? If you're serious about your role as grandparent- if you want to impact your grandkids lives and their faith-if you want to build a rich legacy of faith for future generations, here's the road map.
There is plenty of content to sink your teeth into in this book. You'll find 4 parts to the consider: Cultural Messages, God's Design, Discipleship Practices and Strengthening Relationships.
The book also highlights some important points, things that we should keep before us as a reminder.
a) Being a good grandparent is not good enough
b) My soul's condition shapes the impact of my legacy
c) I don't have all the answers
d) Providing a safe place is more important than proving my point
e) My life is short, but my legacy is not.
f) Nothing is more important than praying for my grandchildren.
The last point, in particular, is a helpful reminder. Sometimes, the best and only thing you can do as a grandparent is to continue to pray for your grandchildren. Prayer is not an extra; it's an essential method to reach and disciple your family.
While we love our new role as grandparent, our culture seeks to trivialise our influence. But throughout the book you are reminded of the importance of grandparents. God created grandparents to play a crucial role in the spiritual development of grandchildren by linking arms with parents to work toward the same goal of raising future generations to know, love and serve Jesus.
It's never been easy to raise a family but it seems especially difficult now. Grandparents have a crucial role in nurturing and building families- an ongoing legacy. I'd recommend this book to anyone who seeks to embrace their God-given role as grandparent and strives to pass on a heritage of faith to their family. The book includes a Grandparent Declaration, designed to encourage you to honestly commit to becoming more than just a grandparent- a Christian grandparent and a legacy builder.
(Digital copy provided for personal review through NetGalley.)
There is plenty of content to sink your teeth into in this book. You'll find 4 parts to the consider: Cultural Messages, God's Design, Discipleship Practices and Strengthening Relationships.
The book also highlights some important points, things that we should keep before us as a reminder.
a) Being a good grandparent is not good enough
b) My soul's condition shapes the impact of my legacy
c) I don't have all the answers
d) Providing a safe place is more important than proving my point
e) My life is short, but my legacy is not.
f) Nothing is more important than praying for my grandchildren.
The last point, in particular, is a helpful reminder. Sometimes, the best and only thing you can do as a grandparent is to continue to pray for your grandchildren. Prayer is not an extra; it's an essential method to reach and disciple your family.
While we love our new role as grandparent, our culture seeks to trivialise our influence. But throughout the book you are reminded of the importance of grandparents. God created grandparents to play a crucial role in the spiritual development of grandchildren by linking arms with parents to work toward the same goal of raising future generations to know, love and serve Jesus.
It's never been easy to raise a family but it seems especially difficult now. Grandparents have a crucial role in nurturing and building families- an ongoing legacy. I'd recommend this book to anyone who seeks to embrace their God-given role as grandparent and strives to pass on a heritage of faith to their family. The book includes a Grandparent Declaration, designed to encourage you to honestly commit to becoming more than just a grandparent- a Christian grandparent and a legacy builder.
(Digital copy provided for personal review through NetGalley.)
February 5, 2019
I received a copy of Grandparenting from the publisher in return for my honest opinion.
Even though I am not a grandparent, I found this book to be very valuable to read through. As a parent there were many ideas I took away from my reading of Grandparenting: Strengthening Your Family and Passing on Your Faith. I really enjoyed the layout and design of Mulvihill's book - it is very easy to navigate to find exactly what you might be interested in reading if you don't want to read it cover to cover.
There are a great number of quotes - both from scripture and from grandparents with different experiences to share - making this a book steeped in Biblical knowledge and life experience. Some chapters also have question sections at the end to help the reader reflect upon what they have read and apply it to their own lives.
I would recommend this book to those interested in parenting, grandparenting, Christian non-fiction, and faith.
Even though I am not a grandparent, I found this book to be very valuable to read through. As a parent there were many ideas I took away from my reading of Grandparenting: Strengthening Your Family and Passing on Your Faith. I really enjoyed the layout and design of Mulvihill's book - it is very easy to navigate to find exactly what you might be interested in reading if you don't want to read it cover to cover.
There are a great number of quotes - both from scripture and from grandparents with different experiences to share - making this a book steeped in Biblical knowledge and life experience. Some chapters also have question sections at the end to help the reader reflect upon what they have read and apply it to their own lives.
I would recommend this book to those interested in parenting, grandparenting, Christian non-fiction, and faith.
January 30, 2019
Although I am not a grandmother yet, I believe that Grand Parenting by Josh Mulvihill is both beneficial for parents and grandparents alike. This book was filled with a lot of wisdom and great information. I love all of the biblical references used throughout the book. I love the style and structure that the book was written and it gets to the point without repetitive information.
Another plus is that this book can be used as an individual study or a group study. The self-reflection questions allow for a deeper self-reflection and allow you to mediated on the Bible verses that are referenced. I highly recommend this book to my friends and family members who are expecting their first grandchild or for those who already are grandparents.
I received this book from Bethany House a division of Baker Publishing Group all thoughts and opinions are my own.
Another plus is that this book can be used as an individual study or a group study. The self-reflection questions allow for a deeper self-reflection and allow you to mediated on the Bible verses that are referenced. I highly recommend this book to my friends and family members who are expecting their first grandchild or for those who already are grandparents.
I received this book from Bethany House a division of Baker Publishing Group all thoughts and opinions are my own.
January 6, 2019
This book was very inspiring and compelling to read with that also will guide and leading you to discovery and faith with joy into the journey and build legacy with your grandchildren with all the practical ideal that you will need and helping you to rebuild a relationship with an adult child, this book will point you to Jesus to restore it with cultural massages, God’s Design, Discipleship and Strengthening Relationship. I highly recommend to everyone must to read this book. “ I received complimentary a copy of this book from Bethany House for this review “
March 17, 2019
Great book. Loved the authors easy-to-follow writing style and tips.
October 29, 2025
This book gave me much to think about. It is filled with biblical perspectives and practical guidelines for grandparents. My work on earth is not done, regardless of my age.
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