BOOKS

Faith Foundations: 99 Devotions to Help Your Family Know, Love, and Act Like Jesus

IVP 2025 | ISBN: 9781514012642

Faith Foundations enables parents and children to dig into the essential truths of Christianity to deepen their understanding of theology and strengthen their love for Jesus. Through ninety-nine devotions for families to engage in together, this family resource introduces and explores the core areas of Christian doctrine: God the Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, people and sin, salvation, the Bible, Christian living, the church, and Last Things.

Theology isn’t just for scholars—it’s for everyone, and Faith Foundations makes it accessible to your family through a simple approach. With clear connections to Jesus and practical steps for living like him, this resource helps you and your children deepen your understanding of key doctrines and apply them to daily life. Each devotion includes a short catechism, a key Scripture passage, devotional text, engaging family discussion questions, a prayer response, and a hands-on family activity.

Through Faith Foundations, you and your family will gain:

  • A meaningful structure for family devotions.
  • Practical steps for parents and kids to live like Jesus in daily lives.
  • Fresh opportunities to learn about God and each other.
  • A deeper appreciation and love for doctrine.
  • A desire to learn even more about God and his ways.

Discipleship isn’t meant to be done alone—and it definitely isn’t just for grown-ups! Grow deep roots of faith as a family by exploring theology and living a life of faith together with Faith Foundations.

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Family Discipleship that Works: Guiding Your Child to Know, Love, and Act Like Jesus

IVP 2024 | ISBN: 9781514009963

Christianity Today 2024 Book Awards “Marriage, Family, and Singleness” Finalist

Family discipleship is one of the most basic ways God has ordained to build his kingdom—and yet most parents struggle to do it consistently.

Amid our busyness, the multitude of different approaches, and our own self-doubts, the deck seems stacked against us. But Brian Dembowczyk isn’t here to pile on the guilt or to make us feel like failures. As a parent himself, he knows this struggle firsthand.

In Family Discipleship That Works, Dembowczyk says that the goal of discipling our kids isn’t just passing along head knowledge. It’s teaching them to act like Jesus. The Bible itself is not just a story but a drama in which we ourselves participate, and our kids have roles to play too. Dembowczyk offers practical advice and a wealth of ideas for teaching our kids to imitate the character traits of Jesus himself as we “act out” the Christian life together.

As parents, we are indeed called to disciple our children to know and act like Jesus. By God’s grace, that’s a task we can do—not out of guilt but with joy and good hope.

Family Discipleship That Works:

  • Invites parents into more active family discipleship without judgmentalism, but with grace and understanding
  • Presents “imitating Jesus” as a new model for understanding and enacting family discipleship
  • Includes practical, achievable advice for parents to live out these principles in their homes
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Gospel Centered Kids Ministry: 200 Questions & Answers to Teach Truth

B&H 2018 | ISBN: 9781462782352

The story of Jesus interacting with the Emmaus disciples after his resurrection provides an outline for what a gospel-centered kids ministry looks like: gospel-centered teaching that points to Jesus in every session, gospel-centered transformation that positions the gospel to change a child’s heart and then his or her behavior, and gospel-centered mission where kids join in on the big story of Jesus that continues to unfold.

Seven out of ten kids will walk away from church after they turn eighteen. About five will return when they have families of their own. But two will never return. Clearly, something isn’t connecting with our kids. As kids ministry leaders, we need to take a hard look at what we are missing in our kids ministries and provide kids the one thing that will satisfy them and keep them connected to the church—the gospel.

Gospel-Centered Kids Ministry also addresses how to communicate with and encourage gospel-centered leaders and parents as part of your ministry.

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Cornerstones: 200 Questions & Answers to Learn Truth

B&H 2015 | ISBN: 978-1462782345

How can parents teach kids to know God’s truth? By asking and answering the right questions. For centuries, parents have used the ancient method of learning and reciting questions and answers to teach the core doctrines of the faith. This beautifully designed book uses this regular rhythm of asking and answering to introduce children to spiritual truths and spark a hunger within them to know God even more.

Through 200 questions and answers, Cornerstones covers such principles as God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, sin, redemption, the church, restoration, and more. The whole family can use the book together, or children can use it on their own since each question and answer is written to make these foundational doctrines accessible.

Ask these right questions, and give your children the right answers on how to truly live their lives for God.

Cornerstones Parent Guide: 200 Questions & Answers to Teach Truth

B&H 2018 | ISBN: 9781462782352

Knowing God is the first step to loving Him and living for Him.

It’s not surprising, then, that one of the greatest callings God has given parents is to teach their children to know Him. But how does that happen? How can parents pass along the knowledge of God that leads to faith to the next generation?

For centuries, parents have used the ancient method of learning and reciting questions and answers to teach the core doctrines of the faith. Through a regular rhythm of asking and answering questions about God and His ways, parents can introduce their children to God and help spark a hunger within them to explore the riches of the Scriptures for the rest of their lives.

Cornerstones provides parents with two hundred questions and answers about God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, sin, redemption, the church, restoration, and more. Each question and answer is written to make these foundational doctrines accessible for a child. Additional commentary is provided to equip parents to engage in meaningful conversations about God in everyday life.