The Kingdom Family: Biblical Parenting from Toddlers to Teens

What if raising children was understood not as a domestic responsibility, but as a sacred, kingdom-oriented calling? The Kingdom Family offers Christian parents a theologically grounded vision of family life that transforms how we understand our role. In a culture that reduces parenting to behavior management and technique, David Shepherd invites you into something deeper: the understanding that faithful parenting is inseparable from discipleship. Whether you’re navigating the concrete demands of toddlerhood or the nuanced relational work of raising teenagers, this comprehensive guide speaks to every season. Shepherd writes with pastoral warmth and honest conviction, acknowledging the gap between ideals and daily reality while offering a perspective shift rather than another checklist. Discover how: • The Christian home becomes a sanctuary — a threshold space set apart where children encounter the living reality of faith • Blessing, prayer, and contemplative silence serve as countercultural anchors in a noise-saturated world • Parents walk alongside their children on a winding developmental journey, shaped by grace-filled relationships and Scripture • Intercessory prayer becomes an enduring gift — not desperate petition, but quiet, faithful carrying of your child before God Spanning twenty-five chapters that move from foundational convictions through specific seasons of childhood and adolescence, The Kingdom Family refuses to be either a rigid discipline manual or sentimental celebration. Instead, it holds theological depth and emotional honesty together with consistent grace, elevating parenting into spiritual formation for the whole family. Perfect for evangelical, mainline Protestant, and Catholic parents who feel the weight of raising faithful children in a secularizing culture and hunger for guidance that is both biblically serious and practically livable. Finish this book not with a strategy, but with a renewed sense of your spiritual identity as a parent and deeper confidence in the slow, faithful work of kingdom family life.