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This first book of the Growing up in Christ series helps equip Christian parents to empower their pre-school kids to grow up in Christ in a messed-up world. This book helps kids ages 2 to 5 have fun with Mom and Dad as they learn the English alphabet and learn to love God and His Word with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. Each alphabet letter features a pithy nursery rhyme and a colorful sketch that highlights a Bible character or a biblical value to help kids grow up in Christ in a world that is often hostile to these beliefs and behaviors. Reading this book and discussing the questions raised under most of the colorful sketches will provoke bonding conversations between parents and their kids about many core dimensions of a faithful Christian life and its challenges, including bullying and sex. This series is written from a biblical creation-fall-redemption-consummation perspective. Kids learn to see themselves and others as being created in God's image. Hence, they and all people deserve love and respect, regardless of their sometimes messed-up beliefs, behaviors, and relationships. The Parents' Appendix suggests more ideas and Scriptures that parents may choose to add to these discussions at their discretion as their kids grow. The Parents' Supplement lists other books in this series, including a coloring book version of A is for Adam.

Christian tweens before and during puberty always deal with many changes of body, mind and spirit. Conversations about these with their parents are crucial if the kids and their parents care that they grow up in Christ. Our culture can mess them up more than they realize. Sound medical science and understanding of what the Bible actually teaches can be very helpful. This book speaks directly to the kids about character, bullying, sex and the fictions our politically correct secular culture wants them to believe. It suggests many issues they should discuss with their parents. It guides parents to many Scriptures and other resources (including relevant articles and videos on the web). Helpful diagrams and sketches enrich the text. Interaction with readers on www.growingupinchrist.com and the Facebook site Growing Up In Christ (Education) enriches the learning of both kids and parents. Some chapters include topics that may not be suitable for every 8-year-old or even every 12-year-old. Parents are invited to provide guidance, based on their unique understanding of and love for their individual tweens. Parents need to be their kids primary educators on moral and spiritual matters. This book helps them start many strategic chats with their kids and gives them the medical scientific facts and theological perspectives to nurture sound biblical ethics. The Christian goal of life, pattern of life, primary and secondary motives, and power of the Christian life are concisely outlined. Many issues of Christian ethics, including non-heterosexual behaviors are clearly but gently evaluated. The text quotes and comments on many relevant Scriptures. It also quotes many specialists on various sides of debated questions. The content is framed as an email dialogue between male and female writers and a tween brother and sister, in a style that should spark such dialogue between the tweens and their parents. It includes discussions of issues that may trouble some of the kids' friends. Our God is infinitely loving, truthful and holy. He calls Christians to reflect that moral character in all they believe, say and do. This book provides fresh guidance for tweens and their parents about how that can work in our messed-up world.

This first activity book of the Growing up in Christ series helps kids have fun with Mom and Dad as they color the pictures, add their own features, learn the English alphabet, and learn to love God and His Word with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. It also equips Christian parents to empower their pre-school kids to grow up in Christ in a messed-up world. Focused on kids ages 2 to 5 each alphabet letter features a pithy nursery rhyme and a sketch to color that highlights a Bible character or a biblical value to help kids grow up in Christ in our secularized world. At parents' discretion, discussing the questions raised under most of the sketches to color may provoke bonding conversations between parents and their kids about many core dimensions of a faithful Christian life and its challenges, including bullying and sex. This series is written from a biblical creation-fall-redemption-consummation perspective. Kids learn to see themselves and others as being created in God's image. Hence, they and all people deserve love and respect, regardless of their sometimes messed-up beliefs, behaviors, and relationships. The Parents' Appendix suggests more ideas and Scriptures that parents may choose to add to these discussions. The Parents' Supplement lists other books in this series, including a full color version: "A is for Adam."