Spiritually Single Moms: Raising Godly Kids When Dad Doesn't Believe

by Nancy Sebastian Meyer

Book Overview

When your husband doesn't share your faith, it is a difficult place to be. Married to a pastor-turned-agnostic, author Nancy Sebastian Meyer understands. With transparency and wisdom, she can... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576838749
• ISBN13: 9781576838747
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Help for single moms

I am a Christian mom and for years I have struggle with this issue of how to teach my own child how to walk with God and still love her earthly dad. Well I was searching for a book and praying that God would sent me such a book. And sure enough God did come through for me. In a mightly way. And I am forever thankful to God. And I hope and pray that I can give him all the Praise and Glory and Honor for sending me the right book at the right time. This book help you to look up Bible verse to help teach your kids a better way of living and love the person that keep refusing to obey God in big ways and small ones. It will always teach you how to pray before give your kids answer concern another person Spiritual life. Will I am so glad that God allow me to locate the book and share it with my daughter. I would tell each Christian that struggle with a answer about someone does not love God. And does not wanted you to believe in God to read this book to along with the Bible and with pray. God can teach one how to overcome the stumbling block that keep you from been all you can be for God. Are kids need to see this been set before them now more then every before. And our kids need to know that God loves then and there parents. Just in case your a Sunday School teacher this can help you reach out to kids that have no parents that do not believe God and can help you teach them that they can believe anyway just because they want to know something other then the way mom and dad are living. God is so great and God is our Great Provider.

Powerful message for parents

I am not a spiritually single mom yet (no kids), but I will be in a couple of years, and when that happens I will be sure to take Spiritually Single Moms down from the bookshelf for another read-through. Spiritually Single Moms is an extremely personal book. By sharing her own experiences raising Becky without a Christian husband to help her, Nancy teaches mothers everywhere how to raise children the Godly way while still teaching them to respect and look up to their father, despite him being an unbeliever. We're reminded that even though our husband is not a believer, he's still the head of the household and should be respected and treated as such. It is important to find a way to teach your kids to believe in God, without putting their father in a bad light, because he doesn't. Finally Nancy reminds us that just as it isn't our fault or responsibility that our husband doesn't believe, ultimately nobody can force our kids to believe either. All we can do is plant and water the seed, and pray that God will help it grow into a strong and healthy tree. Each chapter addresses a separate point of raising godly kids: answering tough questions, teaching them to serve others, teaching them (and you) to respect and love their father, helping them set healthy boundaries etc. It is concluded with four sections: --Strength, which gives a key verse that confirms the focus of the chapter. --Strategies, which offers practical help of how to implement the teachings of the chapter. --Self-assessment, which provides a list of questions that will lead the reader to a more obedient walk with God through the parenting years. --Speaking with God, which contains a prayer based on Praising, Repenting, Asking and Yielding. Even though the book is called Spiritually Single Moms, it is just as relevant for "Spiritually Single Dads." Nancy addresses moms as she is one herself, but dads can easily change the pronouns around and still apply the book to their situation. Armchair Interviews says: Dads or Moms, this book contains a lot of valuable information.

A Needed Resource

Thank God for resources like this one. The author writes from experience and offers readers strategies, stories, scripture, and sage advice on raising Godly kids when living with a husband who doesn't share a belief in God. Because of the format, Spiritually Single Moms would make an excellent group study book in addition to independent reading. Brenda Nixon, author of The Birth to Five Book: Confident Childrearing Right from the Start