Publisher's Synopsis
Learn practical insights in how, why and when to honor your parents. The author uses real-life stories to define and clarify what it means to honor your parents. Even with strained and broken relationships, every Christian can understand and do three specific things to obey God's 5th Commandment and honor their father and their mother. All Ten Commandments are directed toward adults, and every adult can benefit from these seldom taught principles. Learn the Christian perspective of how each generation honors the former and gives an inheritance. The Hidden Promise, Honoring Your Parents and the companion book God's Help for Parents of Adult Children takes an in-depth, fully Biblical approach to "Turning the Hearts of fathers, mothers and adult children back to each other. Large numbers of young adults are breaking all contact with their parents. Large numbers of good kids are leaving home and never looking back. This book explores God's answers to the growing problem of today's broken family relationships. If you know someone who has a broken relationship with their parents, this book will help begin the process of healing. The author has been a Christian pastor for over thirty years. He uses real stories of adult children and their parents who have had horrible relationships but found help from the Bible. The Contents: (1) Laura's story tells how a nineteen year old broke all ties with her mother for over 30 years. (2) Defines the 5th Commandment from a Biblical perspective. (3) Explores what honoring looks like and wisely defines honor as having different degrees. (4) Gives valuable helps when trying to honor imperfect parents. (5) Lists the 7 benefits of keeping the 5th Commandment. (6) Tells how to set boundaries and honor one another in troubled families. (7) Lists 12 practical ways that everyone can honor their parents. (8) Talks about the 3 inheritances that each Christian passes on to their children and discusses how dishonoring disrupts God's plan to bless coming generations. This book is written to those who are aged 20, 30 or 40, but every generation will be blessed with this resource. This subject is seldom taught in today's churches. Buy it for your pastor or friends and see how a simple concept that was initiated by God can transform family relationships. If you know someone who is hurting because their adult children have excluded them from their lives, this book can help. If you know someone who is confused about how God would like them to relate to their flawed parents, this book can help.
