BIBLES
The Jesus Storybook Bible - Sally Lloyd-Jones
- Introduces children (and adults!) to the grand story of Scripture by showing how every Bible story ultimately points to Jesus. Written in accessible, gospel-centered language and paired with engaging illustrations, it helps families teach children that the Bible is one unified story of God’s rescuing love, making it an excellent resource for family devotions and early faith formation.
ESV Student Study Bible
- The ESV Student Study Bible is adapted from the ESV Study Bible and is ideally suited for students who are serious about God’s Word—who want to learn more about what the Bible teaches and how the Bible applies to all of life. Packed with 12,000 clear, concise study notes, along with a ton of other features, this is the most comprehensive and content-rich student Bible available today.
TRAINING IN BIBLICAL THEOLOGY
The New City Catechism
- The New City Catechism is a gospel-centered tool that helps families learn the core truths of the Christian faith through 52 simple questions and answers. Rooted in historic Christian teaching and adapted for modern use, it’s an excellent resource for family discipleship and building biblical and theological foundations in the home.
GO-TO WEBSITE FOR ALL KINDS OF RESOURCES
The Gospel Coalition - Parenting Section
- Offers a wide range of gospel-centered articles, practical wisdom, and theological reflections to help parents faithfully disciple their children. Topics include discipline, technology, cultural engagement, family worship, Biblical sexuality, suffering, and shaping a child’s heart with the truth of the Gospel. The resources are written by pastors, counselors, and experienced parents, aiming to equip families to form Christlike character in everyday life.
BOOKS ON FAMILY DISCIPLESHIP
Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms - Justin Whitmel Earley
Family Discipleship: Leading Your Home Through Time, Moments, & Milestones - Matt Chandler & Adam Griffin
- Summary and Review
- Invites parents to see everyday family life as a powerful place of spiritual formation, showing how simple, intentional habits can shape both children and adults over time. Rather than chasing perfection or rigid systems, it encourages families to build grace-filled rhythms—like shared meals, discipline, and daily routines—that point to the love and presence of God. Through practical guidance and honest storytelling, Earley helps parents reimagine their homes as places where the story of the Gospel is lived out in ordinary, repeatable moments.
- Learn how to:
- Develop a bedtime liturgy to ground your little ones in God’s love
- Discover a new framework for discipline as discipleship
- Reexamine screentime through the lens of spiritual formation
- Introduce your children to biblical rhythms of work, play, and rest
- Acquire simple practices for meaningful family mealtimes
- Develop a custom age chart for your family to plan for shared years under the same roof
- Learn how to:
Family Discipleship: Leading Your Home Through Time, Moments, & Milestones - Matt Chandler & Adam Griffin
- Free ebook on The Gospel Coalition website
- Offers a simple, gospel-centered vision for leading your family spiritually through everyday life. Built around the rhythms of time, moments, and milestones, it helps parents be intentional without becoming rigid, showing how both planned and spontaneous interactions can point children to Jesus. The focus is on faithful presence over perfection, equipping parents to model and cultivate a lasting, authentic faith in the home.
DEVOTIONS FOR FAMILIES WITH YOUNGER KIDS
Long Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God - Marty Machowski
Old Story New: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God - Marty Machowski
Old Story New: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God - Marty Machowski
- A gospel-centered family devotional series that walks through the entire Bible in simple, daily readings. Long Story Short covers the Old Testament, showing how each story points forward to Jesus and God’s plan of salvation, while Old Story New continues through the New Testament, focusing on the life, death, and resurrection of Christ and the birth of the church. Designed as short, structured devotions with Scripture reading and discussion, both books help parents consistently disciple their children by connecting individual Bible stories to the larger story of redemption centered on Jesus.
DEVOTIONS FOR FAMILIES WITH OLDER KIDS & TEENS
The New City Catechism
- The New City Catechism is a gospel-centered tool that helps families learn the core truths of the Christian faith through 52 simple questions and answers. Rooted in historic Christian teaching and adapted for modern use, it’s an excellent resource for family discipleship and building biblical and theological foundations in the home.
DISCIPLINE AND SPIRITUAL LEADING IN YOUR HOME
Give Them Grace: Leading Your Kids to Joy and Freedom through Gospel-Centered Parenting - Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson
Grace Based Parenting: Set Your Family Free - Tim Kimmel
Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family - Paul David Tripp
- Summary and Review
- A gospel-centered parenting resource that helps parents move beyond behavior modification to heart transformation by rooting discipline in God’s grace rather than mere rule-keeping. Fitzpatrick and Thompson emphasize that children don’t just need to obey—they need to see their need for Jesus, understand both the law and the gospel, and experience parents who model repentance, forgiveness, and faith. The book equips parents to use everyday moments of discipline as opportunities to point their children to Christ, showing that true change comes not from external pressure but from the grace of the Gospel at work in their hearts.
Grace Based Parenting: Set Your Family Free - Tim Kimmel
- Calls parents to move away from fear, performance, and control, and instead create a home shaped by God’s grace where children feel secure, significant, and strong. Kimmel emphasizes that when kids are rooted in unconditional love and truth, they are freed to grow in responsibility and maturity without being driven by pressure or perfectionism. Rather than producing outward compliance, grace-based parenting aims for inward transformation, helping children develop a resilient faith and identity grounded in who they are in Christ.
Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family - Paul David Tripp
- Presents parenting as a discipleship mission, not just behavior management, calling parents to aim for heart transformation through the Gospel. Tripp emphasizes that both parents and children need God’s grace and that everyday moments are opportunities to shape a child’s identity and desires by pointing them to Christ.
TECHNOLOGY, SCREENS, SOCIAL MEDIA, INTERNET, ETC.
The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World - Brett McCracken
12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You - Tony Reinke
- A thoughtful, gospel-centered guide to how we form wisdom in an age of information overload. Using the metaphor of a food pyramid, McCracken argues that just as our bodies need a balanced diet, our minds and souls need a steady intake of trustworthy sources—prioritizing Scripture at the foundation, then the church, nature, books, and finally digital media at the top in smaller portions. The book challenges readers to resist being shaped primarily by social media and the noise of the moment, and instead cultivate a life rooted in God’s truth, lived in community, and attentive to the world He created. For parents, it offers a compelling vision for helping their families grow in discernment and wisdom in a distracted, digital age.
12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You - Tony Reinke
- Explores how smartphones are not just tools we use, but forces that quietly shape our habits, desires, relationships, and even our spiritual lives. Reinke examines both the benefits and dangers of constant connectivity, showing how our phones can distract us from deep thinking, meaningful relationships, and attentiveness to God. At the same time, he points readers toward a gospel-centered approach to technology—one that uses digital tools wisely while resisting their pull to control us. For parents, the book offers helpful insight into how to model and cultivate healthy, intentional phone habits in the home.
BIBLICAL SEXUALITY & GENDER
Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World - Laurie & Matt Krieg
The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender
The Gospel Coalition - Sexuality Section
- Offers you theological guidance, parenting principles, and age-appropriate insights for addressing complex issues in healthy ways: issues like marriage and singleness, God's design for sex, same-sex attraction and sexual orientation, gender identity, sexual abuse, and pornography.
The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender
- Led by Dr. Preston Sprinkle, this is a great site that provides biblically grounded resources to help Christians and parents thoughtfully navigate questions of sexuality and gender. Through articles, courses, and podcasts, it equips families to hold to historic Christian convictions while engaging cultural conversations with clarity, compassion, and gospel-centered love.
The Gospel Coalition - Sexuality Section
- Offers articles, podcasts, and pastoral resources that help Christians think biblically about marriage, identity, gender, and cultural conversations surrounding sexuality. Written by trusted pastors and theologians, these resources equip parents and church leaders to hold historic Christian convictions with wisdom, clarity, and gospel-centered compassion.
PERSONAL & FAMILY COUNSELING
Contact Us at elders@summitlimestone.org
- If you or your family are walking through a challenging season, you don’t have to navigate it alone. We would be honored to come alongside you and help connect you with trusted, gospel-centered counselors and other resources. Whether you’re facing struggles in parenting, marriage, or personal areas of life, reaching out is a meaningful first step toward healing and growth. If you’d like support or guidance, please contact us at elders@summitlimestone.org, and one of our Elders will follow up with you.
