Family: How to Love Yours (and Help Them Like You Back) (Life, Love & God) - Softcover

Minassian, Jessie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612916309 ISBN 13: 9781612916309

Publisher: NavPress, 2017

Synopsis

Parents know the drama of living with a teenage girl. Teen girls struggle to honor their closest relationships while finding their unique identity during adolescence, especially in today’s families which can be messy, complex, and even painful. But family―however messy―can also provide the perfect training ground to make us more like Christ.

Family: How to Love Yours (and Help Them Like You Back) is written to come alongside a young woman and equip her as she navigates her roles, responsibilities, and responses from a Christian perspective. With tender, funny, and hope-filled insight, Jessie Minassian digs in deep where parents sometimes struggle to be heard. Jessie offers trusted advice and wise, Godly counsel for a young woman to honor her closest relationships, see her family’s dynamics in new ways, and have some fun along the way!

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From the Back Cover

Why don’t my parents trust me?
How can my little brother (or sister) get me so crazy mad?
Why do I treat my mom mean when I really don’t want to?

Like a Rubik’s Cube, family can be both confusing and fun, challenging and satisfying. The trick is to know how to play the game. The good news is that―if you’re willing to let God show you how―there is a way to love your family despite all the potential unfairness, meanness, and just plain weirdness. And it’s also possible to be the kind of daughter and sister that your family not only loves, but also likes to be around.

Whether your family is broken, blended, stable, or just plain annoying, God wants to use your home base to make you more than who you are today. Ready to find out how? Together, let’s dive into the messy, beautiful, infuriating, and comforting world of family life.

Fun quizzes, interviews to help you learn about your mom and dad, and application questions at the end of each chapter make this a great personal or group resource.

Review

God is in the habit of using broken families for His glory. In Family, Jessie vulnerably and authentically shares the power of that truth through her own story and then effectively empowers young girls to discover it for themselves. Wow. This book is for all teenage girls who want to discover purpose and find healing within their families; for parents who long for deeper, richer, God-honoring relationships with their daughters; and for small group leaders who want to bring reconciliation into the lives and homes of their students. Grab this book, read it in community, and expect to receive gospel truth, fresh perspectives, and life-altering advice. (Megan Fate Marshman, Director of women's ministries at Hume Lake Christian Camps)

An easy read with lots of fun, useful, and engaging exercises for teen girls. This book belongs in the hands of every Christian girl trying to do the teen years right. It is biblically solid, relationally focused, authentic, and very practical. (Danny Huerta, VP of parenting and youth at Focus on the Family)

In Family, Jessie is honest, relatable, and completely down to earth. She doesn’t shy away from sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly about her own family and growing-up years. She gives you an honest inside peek that not many people are willing to give. This book is filled with solid biblical truth and practical advice on how to love and live with your family well. Jessie is the big sister that every teen girl wishes she had. We highly recommend this book! (Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird, Founders of GirlDefined Ministries)

Edition details

• Publisher: NavPress
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1612916309
• ISBN 13: 9781612916309
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240