Keeping Your Kids on God's Side: 40 Conversations to Help Them Build a Lasting Faith
Empower Your Kids to Respond Wellto the Hard Questions
That Threaten Their Faith
It's no secret that children of all ages are being exposed to
negative criticism of Christianity as they spend time at school,
with friends, or online. Are you prepared to talk with your kids
about how they can effectively answer the tough questions that come
their way?
In Keeping Your Kids on God's Side, you'll find 40 of the most common challenges kids face—along with clear, easy-to-understand responses you can discuss together. This book will help you...
- encourage open dialogue on issues your kids might hesitate to talk about
- replace your children's doubts with the confidence only God's truth can give
- equip your kids to build the good thinking skills essential for today
"I almost wish my children were young again so
I could use Natasha Crain's book with them."
Nancy Pearcey
Bestselling author of Total Truth
Top Highlights
“This verse doesn’t say faith is the hope of things hoped for, but the assurance of things hoped for. Furthermore, the verse doesn’t suggest that assurance is based on boundless fantasies, but on conviction. In other words, this doesn’t portray faith as an irrational leap into the unknown. Rather, it presupposes that Christians have good reasons for belief, leading to assurance and conviction.” (source)
“That foundation will help them understand, resist, and respond to the frequent claims that truth is just a matter of opinion. Most importantly, they’ll understand that deciding on their spiritual beliefs shouldn’t be a matter of simply picking what they like the best; they’ll know it should be a matter of searching for what is objectively true.” (source)
“Just as an earthly judge wouldn’t be loving for setting free those who break human laws, God as a heavenly judge wouldn’t be loving for setting free those who break divine laws.” (source)
“Personal experience, while meaningful to a Christian, is of limited value for discussing God’s existence with nonbelievers—or with kids who are being challenged in their faith.” (source)
“the universe couldn’t have just popped into existence on its own—its existence had to have been caused by something else” (source)
"I consider Keeping Your Kids on God's Side to
be an important, eye-opening 'gateway' book. Natasha has done a
wonderful job of quickly introducing the important issues and
evidences from the perspective of a parent. She's engaging,
thoughtful, and she knows how to throw the ball so you can catch
it. Let Keeping Your Kids on God's Side serve as
an introduction to the most important work you will ever do as a
parent."
—J. Warner Wallace, author of Cold-Case Christianity and
God's Crime Scene, international speaker, professor at Biola
University
"I almost wish my children were young again so I could use
Natasha Crain's book with them. Through her parenting blog, Crain
has access to the most important questions and challenges parents
are hearing from their children today. She writes in strong,
vigorous prose and does a great job of pitching her answers at a
level that parents can understand—and, even more importantly, that
they can use."
—Nancy Pearcey, author of Total Truth and Finding
Truth, apologetics professor, Houston Baptist
University
"Keeping Your Kids on God's Side is a timely
and much-needed book. Natasha provides a road map so parents feel
equipped to have the critical (and difficult) faith conversations
with their kids. If you want to see your kids have a vibrant faith,
then get this book and start having these conversations with your
kids today!"
—Sean McDowell, author of more than 15 books, including A New
Kind of Apologist, international speaker, professor at Biola
University
"Keeping Your Kids on God's Side is an
outstanding resource every Christian parent should have in
their home library...this book is the most accessible,
non-intimidating treatment of key apologetics issues I've seen to
date, and I will be recommending it to every parent I
encounter!"
—Melissa Cain Travis, Assistant Professor of Apologetics,
Houston Baptist University, author of Young Defenders series of
apologetics books for kids
"Parents, wake up. The secular culture is challenging our kids
like never before and we've got to prepare them for the barrage of
false ideas they will most certainly face. Apologetic conversations
are no longer optional; they're a necessary part of our kids'
discipleship. Thankfully, Keeping Your Kids on God's
Side is the resource we all need. It's accessible and
comprehensive, and it will equip you to engage your kids in
conversations that count, big time."
—Brett Kunkle, Student Impact Director, Stand to Reason
"Many well-intentioned, godly parents unknowingly send their
children out into the world malnourished by an insufficient diet of
evidence for their faith...We know. Ratio Christi sees it every day
in our chapters on high school and college campuses. Students come
to us starving for ways to defend their faith from intellectual
assault. As the director of parent outreach at Ratio Christi, I've
been looking for a tool to recommend to parents so they can start
this training early at home. This is it. Start feeding your family
a steady diet of Keeping Your Kids on God's Side
to strengthen their hearts and minds for the battles against the
secular smorgasbord they will face."
—Julie Loos, Director, Ratio Christi Boosters
"As a youth pastor, I'm thrilled to see an apologetics book
written with parents in mind! It is not a matter of if your
children or students will encounter arguments against Christianity,
but when. Questions will come, and when they do, where will
your kids find answers? The Internet? Their college professors?
Atheist friends? We need to take responsibility to equip ourselves
to be that resource...this book will help you do just that!"
—Patrick Brown, Student Ministries Director, Whitehaven Road
Baptist Church
"As a pastor over family ministries, I am very excited about
this book! It answers many of the strong objections against
Christianity in amazing depth, yet in such a clear manner that even
someone new to apologetics can easily understand it."
—Jared Novak, Family Pastor, New Life Church Bonita
Springs
Product Details
- Title : Keeping Your Kids on God's Side: 40 Conversations to Help Them Build a Lasting Faith
- Authors:
- Crain, Natasha
- Wallace, J. Warner
- Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9780736965095
Natasha Crain writes a popular Christian parenting blog at ChristianMomThoughts.com. She has an MBA from UCLA and has completed the Certificate Program in Christian Apologetics at Biola University. She and her husband, Bryan, have three children.
