The sixteenth book I read in 2019 was Why Children Matter by Douglas Wilson. This book is poorly titled; you wouldn't necessarily guess from the cover that it is a book on parenting.
There is little that is groundbreaking in this book, but Wilson's writing style is engaging and appealing. He writes from a counterculturally Christian perspective, in which the burden is not on the child to obey but on the parent to imitate Christ and so, like Paul, provide a model for the child to imitate. His message boils down to, "Love God, love what you are doing, and love the people God gave you to do it with."
Saturday, March 30, 2019
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