Spiritual Warfare for
Your Family is a book that sets out to teach the reader how to fight
spiritual battles. As the mother of two small children, I figured it would be a
useful book for me. Unfortunately, the first two thirds of the book were pretty
useless. A few useful things were said, and a few statements that I’m not sure
how she could back them up with the Bible. I had a hard time getting through
that portion of the book (parts 1-4 of 6 parts), because it seemed like a bunch
of talk. I also had a problem with the fact that every time she quoted a Bible
verse, it seemed to come from a different translation or paraphrase of the
Bible. I’m always suspicious of intentions when I see authors switch around
among translations to try to make it serve their purposes.
However, I trudged through, and found the last two sections
to be more helpful. In those sections, she goes more specifically into
parenting children at different stages in their lives, and dealing with various
issues and situations commonly faced by families today.
I’m not sure I would recommend this book to friends, but if
they really needed some help in this area, I would tell them to start at the
beginning, and flip to Part 5 once they got bored. I was glad at that point
that I stuck with the book because it was definitely more of what I hoped to
find on the pages. I wish I could give the book a higher recommendation,
because I did have high hopes for it and it was helpful toward the end, but I
couldn’t get past the first two thirds easily.
I received this book
for free from the publisher through the BethanyHouse Blogger Review Program. I was not
required to write a positive review and the opinions and thoughts I have
expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade
Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255
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