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Making GOD The Center of Family Again: As For Me And My House
Paperback
Religion General Christian Living
Publisher: Patrick James Miller Publishing
Published: May 17 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Your family probably will not fall apart in one dramatic explosion.
It will happen slowly. One missed call. One empty chair. One distracted dinner. One postponed conversation at a time. The distance grows quietly until the people you love most begin to feel like strangers.
Making God the Center of Family Again is a biblical guide for Christian parents and grandparents who feel their family pulling apart and refuse to let that distance become their permanent story.
This is not a book about creating a picture-perfect Christian family. It is about building a real one. A family that prays together, tells the truth, repairs what is broken, honors its aging parents, and passes faith from one generation to the next.
Patrick James Miller writes from lived experience. He lost his father at eight and his brother and best friend at sixteen. He raised two daughters, endured grief and family separation, and found Jesus Christ at fifty-seven.
Years spent driving elderly, isolated, addicted, and forgotten people through Wilmington, North Carolina, showed him what can happen when family connections are not built deeply enough to hold.
Good people end up alone. Parents grow old without support. Adult children carry regret. Grandparents become occasional visitors. Children are raised by screens instead of Scripture. Everyone keeps telling themselves there will be time to fix it someday.
Inside Making God the Center of Family Again, you will discover how to:
- Recognize how family distance begins through missed calls, distracted meals, unresolved wounds, and years of postponed conversations.
- Practice Christian parenting and biblical family discipleship in the ordinary moments of daily life.
- Raise godly children through presence, not perfection, while seeing who God created them to be.
- Correct without crushing by separating a child's behavior from their identity and restoring the relationship after conflict.
- Build faith at home through family prayer, Scripture, honest conversation, and time together without screens.
- Rebuild strained relationships with adult children before pride, silence, or family estrangement becomes permanent.
- Honor aging parents with wisdom and presence while distinguishing between loving care and abandonment.
- Create a spiritual legacy through grandparenting, family stories, spoken blessings, and generational faith.
- Begin a practical 90-day family table reset built around shared meals, meaningful questions, prayer, and consistent presence.
Whether you are raising young children, trying to reconnect with adult children, caring for aging parents, healing strained family relationships, or building a Christian grandparenting legacy, this book will meet you where you are.
You do not need a perfect family history. You do not need all the answers. You do not need to undo every mistake overnight.
You need the courage to take the first step.
The family you want around your table at seventy is built by the seeds you plant when they are seven.Those seeds are presence, prayer, truth, grace, Scripture, forgiveness, and love practiced consistently over time.
This book will help you build a home your children do not have to heal from, a family your grandchildren will want to return to, and a generational legacy rooted in the Word of God.
The pattern can change. The broken family line can end. The table can be rebuilt. The phone call can still be made. The apology can still be offered. The relationship can still be restored.
Someone in every family must decide that the distance has gone far enough. Someone must put down the phone, set the table, and go first. Someone must make the declaration Joshua made thousands of years ago: As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.
Come home. Your seat is still at the table.
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