Loving Your Adult Children: The Heartache of Parenting and the Hope of the Gospel

by Gaye B. Clark

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2024

Overview

Gospel-Centered Framework for Navigating Relationships with Adult Children

As kids grow, so do the pains of parenthood. Patterns of miscommunication and resentment can cause damage over the years, leaving parents and adult children with a fractured relationship. Confused, hurt, and sometimes angry, moms and dads can struggle to know where to turn for help and where to look for hope.

With grace and empathy, author Gaye B. Clark comes alongside readers bearing the weight of parenthood. Encouraging readers to view themselves as image bearers of God first and parents second, Clark shifts readers’ focus to their relationship with Christ while showing how the relationship between parent and child can be a catalyst for understanding the gospel. Loving Your Adult Children examines the fruit of the Spirit in relation to parenting adult children, offers study questions for reflection, and shows how walking with God is the best next step for struggling parents.

Appeals to Parents of Adult Children: Empathetically addresses the pain and suffering associated with parenting

Lasting Gospel-Centered Hope: Shifts readers’ focus from their horizontal relationship with their children to their vertical relationship with Christ

Biblical Perspective: Discusses each fruit of the Spirit and how they apply to relationships with adult children

Reflective: Study questions provide tools to help readers apply the book’s content

Key Features

• Addresses the pain and suffering associated with parenting
• Shifts readers’ focus from their horizontal relationship with their children to their vertical relationship with Christ
• Discusses each fruit of the Spirit and how they apply to relationships with adult children

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Faith in God Alone
• Chapter 2: Repentance
• Chapter 3: Grace
• Chapter 4: Hope
• Chapter 5: The Church
• Chapter 6: Patience
• Chapter 7: Goodness and Kindness
• Chapter 8: Gentleness and Self Control
• Chapter 9: Faithfulness and Joy
• Chapter 10: Peace and Love

Product Details

• Title: Loving Your Adult Children: The Heartache of Parenting and the Hope of the Gospel
• Author: Gaye B. Clark
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 176
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Parent and adult child
• ISBNs: 9781433589348, 9781433589331, 9781433589324, 1433589346, 1433589338, 143358932X
• Resource ID: LLS:LVNGYRDLTHPGSPL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-03T21:28:31Z

About Gaye B. Clark

Gaye B. Clark is a registered nurse and has worked with young adults for more than twenty years. Gaye is a widow and mother of two adult children, Anna Wiggins and Nathan Clark, and grandmother of three.