"Setting Up Stones" Book Review & Giveaway!

SETTING UP STONES
A Parent's Guide to Making Your Home a Place of Worship
by
Martha & Greg Singleton

MY REVIEW:
Is family devotion time at your house greeted with less than shouts of enthusiasm? Is there even a family devotion time at your house? I have good memories of devotions growing up, but they weren't done like clockwork. My husband on the other hand has nightmares of the nightly 2 hour devotions growing up in his house. So finding a balance hasn't really happened in our house yet. This book caught my interest right away when I found out what it was about. I think there is a real need for something like this. So lets take a look...

Think of Setting Up Stones as a workbook, at the end of each chapter there are ideas to try and questions to answer to really get you thinking. It is interactive if you let it be. The first part of each chapter is part Greg and part Martha giving illustrations, stories and insight into ways you can bring worship into a daily part of your family life. The important thing being that they get you to reevaluate what worship is. The beauty of this book is that you will start to see worship all around you and in more things that you do and you will help your kids see it too.

Great book! I have recommended it to my mom for the Young Moms Bible Study she teaches at church because it would be a perfect book for something like that.

*********Greg and Martha are doing a 2 part series on Family Life Today on the radio on December 7th & 8th so tune in and check out their interview! Thank you to Greg and Martha for the review copy they sent out to me, and they would like to give away a copy of this book to one of you! So leave me a comment telling me what you currently do (or don't do) for family devotions or to bring worship into your home and I will enter you! Be sure to leave your email though if you want to be entered... contest open to US and Canadian entries.

Setting Up Stones is a fast-paced, interactive release to help today’s busy parents do three important things: (1) hone their spiritual parenting skills; (2) help their children build a solid foundation of faith; and (3) transform their home into a place of worship. The interactive format of Setting Up Stones will quickly engage parents in more than passive reading; it will invite them to lift the ideas off the page and creatively apply them to their family situation. Biblical principles are explained and illustrated concisely; lively anecdotes help readers see the relevance to today’s family. Each chapter has sidebar content that provides ample opportunity for parents to apply key ideas and try practical activities. Setting Up Stones provides a fresh take on a timeless topic.

Author Bio

Martha and Greg Singleton have, for 29 years, met the challenges of balancing successful professional careers in journalism and marketing while raising a faith-filled family. Together, they creatively share their experiences and insights on family life at conferences, seminars, workshops, churches of various denominations, schools, organizations, and businesses. Professionally, Martha has built some of the nation’s most highly acclaimed scholastic journalism programs while Greg has worked with clients such as ABC Sports, ESPN and Promise Keepers to develop strategies. The couple resides in San Antonio, and has two adult children, Anne and Matt.