A Full Quiver: Family Planning and the Lordship of Christ

by Rick Hess, Jan Hess, Jan Hess

Book Overview

Scriptural proff that God can and will personally optimize your family size - and how to let Him! With a common-sense approach (and lots of humor) Rick and Jan discuss God's control of conception and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943497833
• ISBN13: 9780943497839
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc.
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very encouraging!

I read this alone and agian with my husband. I strongly encourage the readers of the negative reviews to take them with a grain of salt. We are Bible believing Christians and found the info in this book biblically accurate. Look up the verses....they are there. If you don't like the way they apply the verses then just let it go. Pray on what you have read. The Lord has given us the ability to interpret scripture so do it. Most of what they say is very true and encouraging. We joyfully became pregnant with our fifth child after reading this and prayerful consideration. No book is 100% accurate 100% of the time for 100% of all people. Take what you want from this and leave what you don't. I didn't agree with everything they say but it helped me to step away from the world's view of children and to see God's view. Children truly are a blessing, not because I say it or the Hess' say it but because God does. I am very thankful for the way the Hess' shared what they have lived.

Info your church won't tell you

This book is one of the ones that changed our family. We opted for surgical sterilization never thinking for a minute that interfering with God's plan for our family was sinful! We had four and by the world's standards that is a lot! Mr. Hess pointed out scripture that I never applied to that decision. How useful it was!! This book alone will not convict you, that is strictly up to God, a doubter cannot be convinced...but study it with your bible in hand and just see your convictions change. It is truly a worldly view that children are a burden, God says they are his blessing! Thank you God for using Mr. Hess!! Expecting #6!! 1 Timothy 4:4-For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving...

Inspirational and challenging

This was one of the most challenging books I have ever encountered. I read it as a new wife and was suprised but refreshed by the notion of trusting God with the size of one's family. Not using birth control was something I had formerly considered a poor use of judgement. My heart and opinions have been profoundly changed since reading this book three years ago. We now have two beautiful children and I'm so thankful and blessed I opened my eyes to what a blessing children are (and what a burden they are NOT!) :)

Will drastically challenge your way of thinking about kids!

This book challenges the very heart of parenting. It forces you to either see children as blessings and gifts from God or as necessary burdens we must bear in this life to somehow prolong our names. After reading this book, my husband and I not only had a different outlook toward our own children (and as to how many we have), but it also gave us a new outlook on children in general. I think all Christian couples should read this book to help balance the perspective of childbearing we have received in a world that tries to pawn our children off to others as their responsibility.

It changed my life!

In a world of "Me" attitudes, A Full Quiver was an inspiring look into the ways of God. The reader is challenged to examine his or her own motives of obedience and how they are affected by the ways of the world. We need more godly books like this one to enrich our lives. This book shouldn't be passed up.