GOD ’ S GOOD DESIGN
BY JEFF KEATON
” The soul ’ s deepest thirst is for God Himself , who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him .” — F . F . Bruce
THE THINGS CHILDREN
ARE GETTING CAUGHT UP IN ARE
SO ABSURD
THAT IF WE WERE TO HAVE
WRITTEN A
BOOK THIRTY YEARS AGO PREDICTING WHERE WE ARE TODAY , NO ONE WOULD
HAVE BELIEVED
US .
O ver the last three decades , I have been fighting for the souls of our children through the two church ministries I led and now through the ministry of RenewaNation . I knew things were not going well thirty years ago as I walked through the halls of public schools in Broward County , Florida , but I couldn ’ t imagine what our children would face today . The attacks against them come from every angle — education , media , entertainment , technology , and peer pressure . As Christian parents who want to see our children grow up to love Christ and all His ways , it can be absolutely overwhelming .
Many Christian parents have a deep desire to raise godly children but are not exactly sure what that involves or requires of them , or perhaps they ’ re not highly confident they ’ re on the right track . Over and over again , parents and grandparents have approached me with tears in their eyes and told me their stories of children and grandchildren who have completely abandoned the Christian faith .
I wrote Saving Our Children In a World Gone Crazy so that you never have to experience the grief of losing a child to Satan ’ s lies . The message in this book will help you make decisions that could save your child ’ s life and their eternal souls . You will be challenged to think at a very deep level about who you are allowing to have influence in your child ’ s life .
To say we live in a world gone crazy is an understatement . The things children are getting caught up in are so absurd that if we were to have written a book thirty years ago predicting where we are today , no one would have believed us .
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