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When Christian Parents Hurt: How to Find Comfort, Face Grief, and Trust God with Your Adult Child
Hardcover
Christian LivingGeneral Parenting
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9780310360575
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: Aug 10 2027
Pages: 240
Language: English
When your adult child's choices leave you grieving and uncertain, God offers a path to peace, renewed hope, and steadfast faith.
One of the greatest heartaches a parent can experience is watching an adult child turn away from the faith they were raised to embrace--or make choices that lead to pain, broken relationships, and spiritual wandering.
With biblical insight, pastoral compassion, and decades of ministry wisdom, bestselling author and trusted pastor Gary Thomas reminds hurting parents that they are not alone, not without hope, and not beyond God's sustaining grace. Rather than promising formulas to bring a prodigal child home or to fix a wayward son or daughter, Thomas offers soul-healing comfort as he draws from Scripture and the experiences of countless families to help you:
- Understand why godly parenting does not guarantee godly adult children
- Find freedom from the burden of believing that your child's choices are entirely your fault
- Take responsibility for your parental failures without being crushed by guilt
- Embrace God's forgiveness and discover peace, hope, and joy that are not dependent on your child's decisions
- Deepen your trust in God and his character, persevering in prayer even when nothing seems to change
- Protect your marriage from the unique stress and blame that comes with parenting a wayward child
If your heart aches every time you think about your son or daughter, if you've felt isolated because no one seems to understand your grief, or if you've wondered whether you'll ever experience peace again, this book was written for you.
Your child's story is still being written. And so is yours.
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