Giving Your Words: The Lifegiving Power of a Verbal Home for Family Faith Formation

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Your life-giving words can powerfully influence your children. From their years of experience, the Clarksons will help you follow biblical principles for giving heart-shaping words to your children. You will become a lifegiving parent who understands and purposefully uses the power of words to build a godly legacy through family faith formation.



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Shaping the hearts, minds, and souls of your children starts with your words.

As a parent, your heart's desire is to guide your children to love and follow God. Yet so many voices are offering help and advice. Whose voice should shape your children?

Sally and Clay Clarkson suggest the answer is as simple as it is powerful: yours. They will show you how to use your own words to shape your child's life for Christ.

The biblical principles and wisdom they offer, drawn from their years of raising four children and mentoring parents worldwide, will equip you as a word-giving parent.

Start here to gain confidence to personally and intentionally cultivate a verbal home, one filled with words of faith formation and spiritual nurture.

Then, when your children "take your words for it," they will hear God's voice.



From working on college campuses with Campus Crusade, to sharing the gospel behind the Iron Curtain as a missionary, to traveling around the world as a renowned speaker, bestselling author, and beloved podcaster, Sally Clarkson has been actively pursuing ministry for over three decades. She has a heart to disciple women and mothers to live into the calling God has on their lives.

Sally is considered one of the most influential living Christian women and is the author of over twenty books that have sold over a million copies, sharing her heart for the mission of motherhood, the beauty of home, and the art of education on every page she's written . Her books include bestsellers like Different with Nathan Clarkson (Tyndale), The Mission of Motherhood (WaterBrook), Own Your Life (Tyndale), Desperate with Sarah Mae (Thomas Nelson), Awaking Wonder (Bethany House), and many more.

Sally is the mother of four adult children, who are successful authors, academics, actors, filmmakers, composers, and speakers in their own right. She is married to Clay, with whom she started Whole Heart Ministries in 1994, which has equipped and discipled tens of thousands of parents with biblical wisdom through international conferences, intensives, Bible study networks, and more. Sally and Clay published Educating the Wholehearted Child in 1996, and it has since become one of the most-read books on Christian home education. Sally and Clay's upcoming book Giving Your Words (Bethany House, October 2022) explores the power of words in a child's life.

Sally's podcast, At Home with Sally, now features over 600 episodes and has been downloaded over 20 million times. You can read more about Sally, her family, and her work at www.SallyClarkson.com.

Sally lives between the mountains of Colorado and the cobblestone streets of Oxford, England. She always has a cup of tea in her hand and her golden retriever, Darcy, by her side.

Clay Clarkson directs Whole Heart Ministries, a Christian home and parenting ministry founded in 1994 with his wife, Sally. Clay is a graduate of Denver Seminary and has been in vocational Christian ministry most of his adult life. He is the author of Educating the WholeHearted ChildHeartfelt Discipline, and other books for Christian parents.

Bethany House Publishers

Pub Date: October 18, 2022

0.85" H x 8.77" L x 5.79" W

253 pages

hardcover