Giving Good Gifts

Developing spiritual gifts in children is one of the most important principles of good parenting. George Conway uses scriptural insights and personal anecdotes to identify seven gifts that parents can give to their children to help them form healthy spiritual identities.Giving Good Giftsdescribes how providing our children with these gifts enable us to experience parenting as its own spiritual journey.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

1

(1)

Malnourished Generation

2

(3)

Seven Spiritual Gifts

5

(6)

The Spiritual Journey of Parenthood

11

(2)

The Companionship of God

13

(18)

Justin's Story

18

(4)

Imago Dei

22

(7)

Anonymity

29

(2)

Finding God

31

(16)

A Patient God

32

(1)

Through the Eyes of the Beggar

33

(3)

Of Mice and Gorillas

36

(5)

``He Intended to Pass Them by''

41

(1)

Moratorium

42

(5)

A Transcendent Perspective

47

(24)

Abraham's Mind

49

(11)

Parent Absconditus

60

(7)

Vainglory: A Parent's Sin

67

(4)

Truth: The Absolute Horizon

71

(15)

Children and Funerals

72

(2)

Santa Claus

74

(1)

The Tooth Fairy

75

(3)

``You Will Not Die''

78

(2)

Snakes

80

(1)

Truth and Consequences

81

(5)

The Freedom to Doubt

86

(19)

Uncle Bob

87

(4)

Faith Is Not the Opposite of Doubt

91

(1)

America's Religion

92

(6)

Christian Doubt

98

(1)

``I Believe; Help My Unbelief!''

99

(2)

Be a Beroean!

101

(4)

Honor

105

(22)

Did Jesus Honor His Parents?

106

(5)

Parents, First Honor Your Parents!

111

(2)

Parents, Honor Your Children!

113

(2)

Loving Discipline

115

(3)

God's Confusing Question

118

(5)

``I Just Want Them to Be Happy''

123

(4)

The Triumph of Timshel

127

(16)

Who the Devil?

130

(4)

Enmity

134

(2)

Don't Kill the Television

136

(3)

The Good Book

139

(4)

The Spiritual Journey of Parenthood

143

(16)

A Parent's Prayer

146

(4)

Anger

150

(2)

Rainbows

152

(2)

Our Journey

154

(1)

An Unhistoric Act

155

(4)

Notes

159

(6)

Index of Scripture

165

(2)

Index of Subjects

167

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