Parenting Course By Nicky And Sila Lee – Fresh Insights To Parenting

The Parenting Children and Parenting Teenagers Course by Nicky and Sila Lee are perfect resources for parenting that provide everything required to run a course for parenting in your church. They are very qualified for this job as they have been in marriage for more than thirty years, become parents of four kids and grandparents of three grand kids. Currently, they made a DVD resource so that other people can easily practice their parenting course. The course is based on Christian principles and is helpful and relevant for any parent with or without church background or Christian faith.

Parenting Course By Nicky and Sila Lee

The hosts of the Parenting Course Nicky and Sila have worked with many families and couples for over twenty years and speak regularly on parenting. They are also co-authors of the The Parenting Book and The Marriage Book, and they also lead the The Marriage Preparation Course and The Marriage Course. The parenting children course is made up of five weekly sessions, including time for meal. All these sessions cover five main topics:

• Creating strong foundations
• Meeting the needs of your kids
• Setting normal boundaries
• Teaching healthy relationships
• Our long-term aim

Each session of parenting course can be separate into two and go over ten shorter sessions. Each session is made up of two DVD segments from 30 minutes where Nicky and Sila, parents and their children as well as some experts from this area talk about parenting. These segments are stimulating and interesting. After each of them, the DVD is paused and participants discuss as a group or complete some activities in their manuals. The ensuring discussions are helpful and lively, while the manuals include notes from the exercises, segments and homework activities.

The parenting course is unashamedly Christian, is based on Christian principles and people pray at the end of each parenting course session. Nicky and Sila are so gentle and natural in their presentation that even those who aren't Christians are made to feel welcome and comfortable. 

Review Of Wm. Paul Young's Popular Book Cross Roads

The title of the popular book Cross roads by Wm. Paul Young suggests what you are going to find in the story. Antony Spencer is a powerful, wealthy man, arrogant, self centered, selfish and sometimes cruel – he is everything a person should not be. He suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and falls in a coma in the hospital. While in this condition, Antony awakens to find that he is in a different world. While being awaken in a completely different world, he finds that he is capable to interact with people from both worlds.

He goes from one to another world, communicating with each world as he exists in both places. In the new world, Antony meets new people who would have never met before. He interacts with their souls, their hearts, their minds. He is able to speak with them and to move from one person to another. Along his way he meets a boy with Downs Syndrome and his sister who suffers from her own ailment. He meets their family and friends and finds that he really has emotions. While in the other world, Antony meets a representative of God. He meets him, personally and close. He is forced to take a hard and deep look of himself and discovers that he does not really like what he sees. While cleaning the house, he is offered a second chance by God: he can return back and heal one person: not on his own, but with God's help. He feels that by healing himself, he can help other people, making the wrong right as well as making their lives better.

This trip of self discovery, of looking at himself is tempting and intriguing while giving the reader an opportunity to follow and to look at himself at the same time. The readers may discover things about themselves they will not be proud of. Or they may find themselves to be like the people with whom they live or work. This popular book “Cross roads” takes us on a journey of self discovery. Are we people who care too much about ourselves than for the others? While the story may be weak, the characters are still strong. This popular book “Cross roads” is an interesting book, although it is predictable in some parts.

C.S. Lewis- Popular Christian Writer

Clive Staples Lewis, or shortly known as C.S. Lewis, was a very popular Irish author best known for his book “Chronicles Of Narnia” and also for his Christian books like “The Screwtape Letters”. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1898. He was known as one of the most intellectual and influential writers of his time. C.S. Lewis was Tutor in English literature at the Oxford University till 1954, and later he was included in the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance literature at the Cambridge University where he worked until his retirement. Lewis wrote around thirty books, and some of them were bestsellers at his time. Through his books, C.S. Lewis reached a mass audience, and they continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. Some of his top selling books include: “The Screwtape Letters”, “Mere Christianity”, “The Great Divorce”, “Out of The Silent Planet” and undoubtedly the most popular “The Chronicles Of Narnia”. Some books even have a film adaptation.

C.S. Lewis was also known as one of the greatest Christian apologists and apostle to the skeptics of the 20th century because through his books he gave answers to those that denied Christ as a Savior. In 1947, Clive Staples Lewis was chosen for the cover of the Time magazine because he has been perceived as reputable academic who expressed his Christian faith through his books and radio programmes. Between 1940 and 1944, Lewis worked in the British Broadcasting Corporation where he worked on a number of religious talks on what was called “Mere Christianity”. The weekly broadcasts attracted a large audience during the years of the Second World War. The religious radio talks were later brought together in one of Lewis' most famous books, “Mere Christianity”

Another popular book written by C.S. Lewis which was also presented in a movie is “The Screwtape Letters”. Screwtape Letters is described as a Christian novel, written in a satirical and epistolary style. In this book, C.S. Lewis explains how the demons affect the life of every human being. “The Screwtape Letters” is written in a form of letters which are exchanged between Wormwood and his uncle Screwtape. Screwtape is presented as wise and experienced devil whose job is to tempt people to make sins and to abandon the Christian faith. In the book, Screwtape teach his nephew Wormwood how to tempt one newly converted Christian from Heaven to Hell. This newly converted Christian is known as the “patient”. This bestseller by Lewis was sold in more than one million copies, and it was seen as excellent presentation of the existing materialism, existentialism and atheism. “The Screwtape Letters” is a difficult book to understand because everything in the book is opposite of what should be known as good way of living. The chapters in the book cover different temptations, like lack of love, smugness and lust.

To this day, the work of C.S. Lewis continues to attract more and more readers from every corner of the world. In 2008, Lewis was ranked by The Times magazine as one of the greatest British writers of all time.  

A short review on the most famous book "The Bible"

     The Bible is one of the most popular if not the most popular book on earth. This book can help us grow spiritually and be a few steps closer to God, though you would be able to understand the meaning of his words.

The book can help us to stay calm, fearful and courageous in the midst of hardship. We come into temptation to sin almost every day but thanks to the Bible we learn to control our emotions and acts. The Bible has a powerful mechanism to rescue us people from darkest thoughts and hopeless situations and return us to the right path.

There is no certain reason why you should read it, it's up to you to decide whether to accept the words of God.