To the Tenth Generation: God’s Heart for Your Family, Far into the Future
Ray Ortlund, Jani OrtlundHardback 2024-09-10
2024 Gospel Coalition Book Award winner in the Family & Relationships category.
God can accomplish greatness through a Christian family, generation by generation, and it begins with you faithfully leading them today.
In the midst of family life, most days are too busy to think far into the future. Then once the children are grown, family life can feel like mostly memories, often tinged with regrets. And the future? More worries and fears, laden with unknowns. But you and your family right now, whatever your ages, whatever you’re facing, are living within a much larger story than you might realise. Your faithful efforts today matter. They are how God himself shapes the future. His heart can create in your home a culture of faith that will strengthen your family To the Tenth Generation.
Sound impossible? Ray and Jani Ortlund help bring such unimaginable thoughts down into the everyday ordinary of home and marriage and parenting — even grandparenting. With refreshing honesty and wise counsel, they invite you to experience the greatness that God can accomplish through a Christian family. It can happen, yes, in your family — now and for many, many, many years to come.
Also available, a picture book for children and families: Your Family Is God's Plan: His Mercy from Generation to Generation.
About the Authors:
Ray Ortlund is president of Renewal Ministries and a founding member of The Council of The Gospel Coalition. He established Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and upon retirement was named “Pastor to Pastors.” Among his other books are The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ and Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel. His PhD is from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Jani Ortlund, vice president of Renewal Ministries, hosts the He Restores My Soul podcast and is the author of numerous books. Serving Christ through writing, speaking, and discipling is her chief passion in life. She and Ray, married more than fifty years, have four married children and (as “Bapa” and “Mayme”) have fifteen grandchildren.
2024 Gospel Coalition Book Award Judges Comments:
In an anxious age of parenting, Ray and Jani Ortlund’s book is a breath of fresh air. Where parenting influencers hyperfocus on particular diets, discipline approaches, or optimised extracurricular schedules to raise successful kids, the Ortlunds zoom out and cast a beautiful, biblical vision for families that glorify God. Incorporating practical wisdom, testimonies from their children, and words of encouragement to parents and grandparents, the Ortlunds show readers that parents don’t need to do everything perfectly; they need to do a few things faithfully. They demonstrate the power of faithful marriages and prioritising God’s Word, of teaching obedience and creating a culture of kindness.
Rather than walking away burdened by the daily work of parenting, readers feel cheered on to be part of God’s work for years to come. Our families’ ultimate hope isn’t how well we perform as parents or grandparents—it’s the God who promises to bless his people generation after generation.
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2024 Gospel Coalition Book Award winner in the Family & Relationships category.
God can accomplish greatness through a Christian family, generation by generation, and it begins with you faithfully leading them today.
In the midst of family life, most days are too busy to think far into the future. Then once the children are grown, family life can feel like mostly memories, often tinged with regrets. And the future? More worries and fears, laden with unknowns. But you and your family right now, whatever your ages, whatever you’re facing, are living within a much larger story than you might realise. Your faithful efforts today matter. They are how God himself shapes the future. His heart can create in your home a culture of faith that will strengthen your family To the Tenth Generation.
Sound impossible? Ray and Jani Ortlund help bring such unimaginable thoughts down into the everyday ordinary of home and marriage and parenting — even grandparenting. With refreshing honesty and wise counsel, they invite you to experience the greatness that God can accomplish through a Christian family. It can happen, yes, in your family — now and for many, many, many years to come.
Also available, a picture book for children and families: Your Family Is God's Plan: His Mercy from Generation to Generation.
About the Authors:
Ray Ortlund is president of Renewal Ministries and a founding member of The Council of The Gospel Coalition. He established Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and upon retirement was named “Pastor to Pastors.” Among his other books are The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ and Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel. His PhD is from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Jani Ortlund, vice president of Renewal Ministries, hosts the He Restores My Soul podcast and is the author of numerous books. Serving Christ through writing, speaking, and discipling is her chief passion in life. She and Ray, married more than fifty years, have four married children and (as “Bapa” and “Mayme”) have fifteen grandchildren.
2024 Gospel Coalition Book Award Judges Comments:
In an anxious age of parenting, Ray and Jani Ortlund’s book is a breath of fresh air. Where parenting influencers hyperfocus on particular diets, discipline approaches, or optimised extracurricular schedules to raise successful kids, the Ortlunds zoom out and cast a beautiful, biblical vision for families that glorify God. Incorporating practical wisdom, testimonies from their children, and words of encouragement to parents and grandparents, the Ortlunds show readers that parents don’t need to do everything perfectly; they need to do a few things faithfully. They demonstrate the power of faithful marriages and prioritising God’s Word, of teaching obedience and creating a culture of kindness.
Rather than walking away burdened by the daily work of parenting, readers feel cheered on to be part of God’s work for years to come. Our families’ ultimate hope isn’t how well we perform as parents or grandparents—it’s the God who promises to bless his people generation after generation.