Family Resources

Books, music, and helps for the home.

“Parents, Teach Your Children”

This page grew out of the message on Deuteronomy 6 preached on July 5, 2026, in the series Discipling the Next Generation. The sermon and its notes are still here whenever you want to go back to them.

Old songs and hymns that have shaped faith in children for generations, a catechism, family devotionals, storybooks, books for parents, shows the family can sit down to, and shelves of the classics every Christian home does well to own.

From Our Church

Two things this church built for the home.

For Parents

For the ones doing the discipling.

Foundational theology

Book  ·  Ligonier

Parenting by God’s Promises

Joel R. Beeke

How to raise children in the covenant of grace, with practical chapters on family worship, teaching, and discipline.

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Book  ·  Grace to You

What the Bible Says About Parenting

John MacArthur

Biblical principles for raising godly children, drawn straight from Scripture rather than from a method.

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Book  ·  Christianbook

Family Shepherds

Voddie Baucham

Calling and equipping men to lead their homes.

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How to actually shepherd children

Book  ·  Truth For Life

Parenting God’s Way

Alistair Begg

A short booklet from Ephesians on what God asks of fathers and of mothers. Sold at cost by Begg’s ministry.

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Book  ·  Amazon

Give Them Grace

Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson

Grace-driven, gospel-centered parenting from a mother and daughter, so children grow up neither Pharisees nor prodigals.

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Ordering the home

Book  ·  10ofThose

Family Worship

Donald S. Whitney

A brief, practical guide to reading, praying, and singing together as a household. Includes a discussion guide.

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Book  ·  Amazon

Habits of the Household

Justin Whitmel Earley

Simple habits for waking, meals, discipline, screens, and bedtime that shape a home around the story of God.

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Book  ·  Canon Press

Standing on the Promises

Douglas Wilson

A handbook of biblical childrearing.

Open at Canon Press ›

Around the Table

For family worship and the dinner table.

Story Time

For the couch, the car, and bedtime.

From Lithos Kids

Books  ·  Lithos Kids

The Mansoul Chronicles

Tyler Van Halteren

Bunyan’s The Holy War retold as an illustrated adventure series for ages 6 to 12.

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Books  ·  Lithos Kids

Little Pilgrim’s Big Journey

Tyler Van Halteren

The Pilgrim’s Progress retold for children, in two parts.

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Books  ·  Lithos Kids

The Kingdom of God Bible Storybook

Tyler Van Halteren

Old and New Testament storybooks in a box set, with summaries and questions for each chapter.

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Book  ·  Lithos Kids

The Wisdom of God

Tyler Van Halteren

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job retold and illustrated for ages 6 to 12.

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Book  ·  Lithos Kids

The Parables of Jesus

Tyler Van Halteren

Twenty-six parables retold and illustrated for ages 4 to 12, with questions after each chapter.

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Stories to grow up with

Books  ·  Westminster Bookstore

The Chronicles of Narnia

C. S. Lewis

All seven books in one box set, with Pauline Baynes’s illustrations in full color.

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Book  ·  Crossway

You Are Special

Max Lucado

Punchinello the Wemmick learns that his maker’s love does not depend on stickers from other Wemmicks.

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Book  ·  Crossway

You Are Mine

Max Lucado

A Wemmick story about wanting more, and finding that belonging to the maker is enough.

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Book  ·  Crossway

If Only I Had a Green Nose

Max Lucado

A Wemmick story about the trap of keeping up with everyone else.

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Book  ·  Crossway

The Dragon and the Stone

Kathryn Butler

First in the Dream Keeper Saga, a fantasy adventure for older children.

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Book  ·  Crossway

The Hunt for the Kraken

Kathryn Butler

A decide-as-you-go adventure where the reader picks the path.

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Songs and Hymns

Sing them until the children know them by heart.

Watch Together

Screens the whole family can sit down to.

Theology

Knowing God, and knowing what we believe.

Start here

Book  ·  Amazon

Knowing God

J. I. Packer

On knowing God Himself, not only knowing about Him. A modern classic, read by generations of Christians.

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Book  ·  Amazon

The Holiness of God

R. C. Sproul

Sproul’s best-known book: what the holiness of God means and why it changes how we live.

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Book  ·  A. W. Tozer Store

The Knowledge of the Holy

A. W. Tozer

Brief chapters on the attributes of God, written to be read slowly. Sold by Moody in one volume with The Pursuit of God.

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Book  ·  Ligonier

Everyone’s a Theologian

R. C. Sproul

A plain introduction to systematic theology, one doctrine at a time.

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Book  ·  Amazon

Mere Christianity

C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s plain case for the Christian faith, grown out of his wartime radio talks.

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Going deeper

Book  ·  Amazon

Systematic Theology, Second Edition

Wayne Grudem

A full introduction to biblical doctrine written to be understood, a reference for the home.

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Book  ·  Westminster Bookstore

Essential Christian Doctrine

John MacArthur

A concise handbook of Bible doctrine, developed from the larger Biblical Doctrine.

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Faith in public

Book  ·  Amazon

Politics According to the Bible

Wayne Grudem

What Scripture says about government and today’s political questions, issue by issue.

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Book  ·  Amazon

Christian Ethics

Wayne Grudem

An introduction to biblical moral reasoning across the questions of daily life.

Open at Amazon ›

Devotional

Books to read a little at a time.

Biographies

Lives that show what the doctrine looks like.

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More than any resource, put the Word of God on your own heart, and talk about it naturally and repeatedly in the ordinary rhythms God has given your family.

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