Total Family Makeover – 8 Practical Steps To Making Disciples At Home
Do you ever find yourself buckling under the perceived pressure you feel – from yourself and others – to be the perfect mom who is raising the perfect kids? Do you feel that when your children don’t live up to the expectations that others place upon them – when they don’t get good grades, when they don’t show up on time, when they get into trouble – that their behavior reflects poorly upon you?
If so, I have some good news for you! In her book Total Family Makeover – 8 Practical Steps To Making Disciples At Home, Melissa Spoelstra shares some news that many of us need to hear:
Even though God modeled perfect parenting, and He loved perfectly, His children still disobeyed.
Perhaps that’s why God does not call us to be perfect parents or to raise perfect children. Instead, He calls us to “train our children in the way that they should go so that when they are old, they will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).
In Total Family Makeover, Melissa provides us with practical ways to live out 8 key spiritual disciplines so that they will become a natural part of our children’s lives!
The 8 areas of spiritual focus in Total Family Makeover are:
- Spending Time in Prayer
- Reading God’s Word
- Growing Through a Mentoring Relationship
- Finding Community in the Church
- Serving Others
- Taking Time to Rest
- Giving Back to God
- Sharing Your Faith
Total Family Makeover is filled with many inspiring ideas that any family can implement. The book succeeds in its mission of strengthening families and helping parents raise children who reflect the spiritual qualities of Christ.
I rate this book series 5 out of 5 stars.
About Melissa Spoelstra
Melissa Spoelstra is a popular women’s conference speaker, Bible teacher, and writer who is madly in love with Jesus and passionate about helping women of all ages to seek Christ and know Him more intimately through serious Bible study. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Bible Theology and enjoys teaching God’s Word to diverse groups and churches within the body of Christ.
Melissa is the author of the First Corinthians: Living Love When We Disagree, Joseph: The Journey to Forgiveness, and Jeremiah: Daring to Hope in an Unstable World Bible studies and Total Family Makeover: 8 Steps to Making Disciples at Home book. She lives in Dublin, Ohio, with her pastor husband and four kids.
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- Visit the Total Family Makeover Blog Tour Page.
- Total Family Makeover is available on Amazon.
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This book looks fantastic! My hubby & I were just chatting about needing to do a makeover for our family-this would certainly help. Thanks for sharing;)
My pleasure Amy – so glad you caught the review!
Remembering that even God’s children disobeyed is a great encouragement, and this book looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing this at Booknificent Thursday on Mommynificent.com!
Tina
Thanks so much for sharing with us at Share The Wealth Sunday! This was one of the most clicked links from last week and we’ll be featuring it at tonight’s party!
How awesome Lisa – thanks for the heads up and for all of your personal visits this week! 🙂
This sounds like a wonderful book!
Thanks for sharing your review!
Thank you for sharing your review of the Total Family Makeover Book at the #HomeMattersParty
This is so timely! Thank you for sharing this review with the Small Victories Sunday Linkup. We’re in a season right now and this is definitely a need to read.
This looks like a great book! Thanks for sharing