Fearless Families
Building Brave Homes in an Uncertain World
Kevin A. Thompson
Book 03 · 2021
Fearless Families
Building Brave Homes in an Uncertain World
Fear is already making decisions in your house. It has been for years. It just does not announce itself as fear.
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We do not call it fear. We call it being responsible.
The idea
Fear is so ordinary in family life that it stops registering. It shows up as the school you chose, the neighborhood you moved to, the conversation you avoided, the image you protect.
Because we are afraid, we reach for the things that promise to make us safe: security, appearance, possessions, control. They never deliver. They just raise the stakes.
Jesus pointed a different direction. A home led by love makes different choices — and the fear gets smaller as the love gets larger. That is the whole argument of this book, worked out in the ordinary decisions a family makes every week.
Inside the book
What you will actually get
- Naming it
How to recognize fear when it is wearing the costume of good parenting.
- Four idols
Safety, appearances, materialism, and power — what each one promises and what it takes.
- Love as a decision
Choosing service over status and submission over power, in practice.
- A brave home
What changes at your dinner table when fear stops setting the agenda.
Who it is for
Written with these readers in mind
Parents of any age of child
From toddlers to adult children still finding their way.
Families in an anxious season
A move, a diagnosis, a news cycle you cannot look away from.
Church and small group study
Chapter-length sections built for weekly discussion.
Praise
What people are saying
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About the author
Kevin A. Thompson
Kevin is a teaching pastor at Bayside Church, where he oversees Married Life Ministries across nine locations in California. He is one of the more widely read voices in America on marriage and relationships.
A frequent guest on Focus on the Family and Family Life and featured in the New York Times, he holds a Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School at Samford University. He and his wife, Jenny, live in Auburn, California, with their two children.
The rest of the shelf
Seven books, one conversation
Marriage, family, anxiety, and attachment — each book takes one piece of it. Pick the one that sounds like your week.