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

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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 encourage your spiritual growth as well as strengthen the spiritual health of your family.

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Mismatched spiritually? Rekindle your hope! Have you ever asked yourself if you married the wrong man? Wondered when your husband would get serious about his relationship with God? Or longed for your husband to assume his God-ordained position as spiritual leader of your home? Many of us find that our marriage isn't what we thought it would be. When your husband doesn't share your commitment to God, it is a difficult and sometimes lonely place to be. Married more than twenty years to a pastor-turned-agnostic, Nancy Sebastian Meyer understands the hearts of spiritually single moms. With transparency and wisdom, Nancy can help encourage your own spiritual growth as well as strengthen the spiritual health of your family. After all, you can't point your children (or husband) toward Jesus if you can't see Him yourself.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: NavPress (February 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576838749
• ISBN-13: 978-1576838747
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #524,446 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful message for parents, June 11, 2007

By	armchairinterviews.com (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

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.

4.0 out of 5 stars A Needed Resource, March 5, 2007

By	Brenda Nixon (Ohio) - See all my reviews

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