Feeling pressure to do everything “right” and raise up “good” children, it’s easy to lose sight of our ultimate purpose as parents in the quest for practical tips and guaranteed formulas. Winner of the ECPA Book of the Year Award for Christian Living What is your calling as a parent? In the midst of folding laundry, coordinating carpool schedules, and breaking up fights, many parents get lost.

Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Crossway Books 1 edition (30 Sept. For more information and resources, visit. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Luella and they have four grown children. He has written a number of popular books on Christian living, including What Did You Expect?, Dangerous Calling, Parenting, and New Morning Mercies. He is also the president of Paul Tripp Ministries. Paul David Tripp (DMin, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a pastor, author, and international conference speaker. Freed from the burden of trying to manufacture life-change in our children’s hearts, we can embrace a grand perspective of parenting overflowing with vision, purpose, and joy. Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God-grace that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents. Outlining fourteen foundational principles centered on the gospel, he shows that we need more than the latest parenting strategy or list of techniques.

Instead, he presents us with a big-picture view of God’s plan for us as parents. In this life-giving book, Paul Tripp offers parents much more than a to-do list.

Parenting 14 gospel principles