Loving Our Kids on Purpose Book is here!

Well, it’s finally here! I had no idea that writing a book was such an involved process. This work is a culmination of many years Sheri and I have put into raising our kids and helping so many others raise theirs. We pray you both enjoy reading it and experience peace as you implement it.

Peace,

Danny

Excerpts from pgs. 2 & 3:

"Do your family relationships manifest the fruit of peace? Isaiah. 9:7 declares: “There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace…” Peace is a fruit of the Kingdom. But how do you establish the government of Heaven in your home? In order to answer this question, you will have to examine your “bottom line”. What is the most important issue for you as a parent when you are interacting with your children? Does the motivating factor in your parenting match up with what drives the Father’s heart toward His children? Recognizing your “bottom line” is truly the first task at hand.
I would submit that for most of us parents, the goal of raising children is to teach them to obey. From the time we meet them at birth, our efforts are directed toward shaping the wills and wants of our children. We show them what is “good” and “bad” and then teach them to choose “good”. With all our might, we try to ensure that they turn out “good”, and the obvious method for accomplishing this goal is to teach them to do as we say.
This book will show you that the goal of obedience and compliance is an inferior goal. It can actually be detrimental to both your children’s development of personal responsibility and their perception of God the Father. Although obedience is an important part of our relationship with our children, it is not the most important quality. And if we fail to take care of the most important matters first, what we build on top of our foundation will not support what we were hoping to accomplish as parents.
I want to propose to you that freedom is a big priority in Heaven, because it is what makes relationships possible. Heaven’s culture of relationships is vastly different than most everything we see on earth because God, the Father, is less interested in compliance and much more interested in love. I want to convince you that it is for this reason that He is trying to prepare us to live absolutely free lives in an environment of unlimited options more than He is trying to keep us from sin. That is the heart of loving on purpose, and so I would like to show you how to love your own kids with that purpose in mind."