Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side

Keeping Your Kids on God's Side

Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side will introduce you to 40 of the most important faith challenges facing Christian kids today. It’s an “apologetics 101” for parents. Conversations cover the subject areas of God, truth and worldviews, Jesus, the Bible, and Science.

Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side was selected as a 2017 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) Christian Book Award Finalist!

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"If you’re a Christian parent but you haven’t yet mastered the rich case for God’s existence and the truth of the Christian worldview, this book is an excellent place to start. In fact, I consider Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side to be an important, eye-opening, “gateway” book. Natasha has done a wonderful job of quickly introducing the important issues and evidences from the perspective of a parent. She’s engaging, thoughtful, and she knows how to throw the ball so you can catch it. Let Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side serve as an introduction to the most important work you will ever do as a parent. Learn the case so you can give your kids reasons to believe."

"Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side is a timely and much-needed book. Natasha provides a road map so parents feel equipped to have the critical (and difficult) faith conversations with their kids. If you want to see your kids have a vibrant faith, then get this book and start having these conversations with your kids today!"

"Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side is an outstanding resource every Christian parent should have in their home library. Natasha has done a great service to the kingdom; this book is the most accessible, non-intimidating treatment of key apologetics issues I’ve seen to date, and I will be recommending it to every parent I encounter!"

"Parents, wake up. The secular culture is challenging our kids like never before and we've got to prepare them for the barrage of false ideas they will most certainly face. Apologetic conversations are no longer optional, they're a necessary part of our kid's discipleship. Thankfully Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side is the resource we all need. It's accessible and comprehensive, and it will equip you to engage your kids in conversations that count, big time."

"Books on apologetics turn more readers away than almost any other topic. After a few pages the reader is exhausted by terms and concepts that are completely new to them and, unwilling to pursue the pages further, most readers quit. The problem is that most apologetics books are not written with the everyday Christian in mind. Not so with Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side. Each of the forty chapters is thoroughly researched and written in clear language with many helpful examples. This book is engaging and inspiring, and parents of both young and older children ought to be encouraged to read and study it. If the church is to engage the world with the message of the gospel, this next generation must be trained better than every previous one. This book provides answers that will establish and strengthen kids' faith, enabling them to not only survive but thrive in a world that is hostile to Christian beliefs. Natasha deserves thanks from the church at large for providing such a timely resource."

"If you're a fellow pastor or youth worker, get this book into the hands of the parents you work with. While you're at it, read it yourself! Whether you are a parent, pastor, youth worker or student, Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side is an incredibly engaging and easy-to-follow resource that will help you have conversations and answer questions that will build a confident faith. I highly recommend this book as an invaluable tool."

"As a pastor over family ministries, I am very excited about this book! It answers many of the strong objections against Christianity in amazing depth, yet in such a clear manner that even someone new to apologetics can easily understand it. This book is a wonderful resource for parents to equip their children to give a defense to everyone who asks for a reason for the hope that is within them."

PART 1: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT GOD

1. What evidence is there for God’s existence?
2. How could a good God allow evil and suffering?
3. Why would God command the genocide of the Canaanites?
4. How can a loving God send people to hell?
5. How can God judge people who have never even heard about Jesus?
6. Why would God need people to worship Him?
7. Why is God so hidden?
8. Is faith in God the opposite of reason?

PART 2: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TRUTH AND WORLDVIEWS

9. What is the difference between objective and subjective truth?
10. Do all religions point to the same truth?
11. How can Christians claim they know what is objectively true?
12. How can personal experience help determine what is true?
13. How can common sense help determine what is true?
14. If Christianity is true, why are there so many denominations?
15. Is Christianity responsible for millions of deaths in history?
16. Are Christians less intelligent than atheists?

PART 3: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT JESUS

17. How do we know Jesus existed?
18. Did Jesus really claim to be God?
19. Did Jesus’ followers really believe He was God?
20. Why did Jesus need to die on the cross for our sins?
21. What are the historical facts of the resurrection that nearly every scholar agrees on?
22. What are the major theories people use to explain those facts?
23. Why do Christians believe a supernatural resurrection best explains the facts?
24. How can Christians believe miracles are even possible?

PART 4: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE

25. How were the books in the Bible selected?
26. Why were books left out of the Bible?
27. How do we know we can trust the Bible’s authors?
28. How do we know the Bible we have today says what the authors originally wrote?
29. Does the Bible have errors and contradictions?
30. Does the Bible support slavery?
31. Does the Bible support rape?
32. Does the Bible support human sacrifice?

PART 5: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SCIENCE

33. Why do Christians have varying views on how and when God created the world
34. What is young-Earth creationism?
35. How do mainstream scientists estimate the age of the Earth?
36. What is old-Earth creationism?
37. What is evolution?
38. What are the major pieces of evidence for evolution?
39. What are the major challenges to evolution?
40. What is intelligent design?

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Natasha Crain is a national speaker, author of four books, blogger, and podcaster who is passionate about equipping Christians to think more clearly about holding to a biblical worldview in the midst of an increasingly challenging secular culture. She has been featured on radio and TV shows across the U.S. and Canada, and lives in southern California with her husband and three children. She writes at natashacrain.com.