A Relationship Divine (ARD) Guiding Children Well
A Relationship Divine: Guiding Children Well
Helping Children Grow in Wisdom, Responsibility, Faith, and Character
Dr. Bill Koerner
Children need more than correction.
They need guidance.
A Relationship Divine: Guiding Children Well is a Christ-centered devotional adapted and developed from the original A Relationship Divine: Parenting Edition, now presented in the current ARD devotional format with a focused path for helping children grow in wisdom, responsibility, faith, discernment, and character.
This 32-devotional journey is written for parents, future parents, grandparents, caregivers, mentors, teachers, ministry leaders, and anyone entrusted with helping shape the life of a child.
Where A Relationship Divine: Parenting Well focuses on the formation of the parent, Guiding Children Well focuses more closely on the formation of the child.
Through Scripture, teaching, real-world reflection, personal questions, and prayer, Dr. Bill Koerner helps readers look beyond behavior and ask deeper questions about what is being formed in a child’s heart.
Inside this devotional, readers will reflect on:
- guiding the heart, not just the behavior
- helping children grow in wisdom, responsibility, faith, and character
- asking better questions about faith, fear, friendship, choices, and responsibility
- recognizing green flags, yellow flags, and red flags in a child’s life
- noticing patterns that reveal what children need
- teaching children that choices have consequences
- helping children practice responsibility
- building discernment for real-life decisions
- preparing children to choose wisely without constant supervision
- praying with and for children
- speaking blessing and encouragement
- modeling what is taught
- staying present through every season
- avoiding humiliation, conditional love, passivity, and wound-led parenting
- teaching children how to handle pressure
- teaching children how to work, serve, and steward money wisely
- helping children build healthy relationships
- releasing children with faith instead of fear
- guiding children toward legacy
This book is not written for parents who have every answer.
It is written for parents who want to guide faithfully.
The ones who want to understand their child’s heart.
The ones who want to ask better questions.
The ones who want to recognize warning signs before patterns grow deeper.
The ones who want to correct without shame.
The ones who want to teach responsibility without crushing hope.
The ones who want to prepare children for the real world with wisdom, courage, and faith.
The ones learning to release control while still loving, praying, and guiding well.
A Relationship Divine: Guiding Children Well reminds readers that faithful guidance is not control.
It is formation.
A thoughtful question matters.
A word of blessing matters.
A calm correction matters.
A consistent boundary matters.
A private prayer matters.
A wise conversation matters.
A parent’s example matters.
A child’s dignity protected matters.
This devotional is ideal for personal reflection, parenting groups, family ministry, mentoring, discipleship, parenting preparation, and anyone seeking to help children grow into wise, responsible, faith-filled adults.
Your child does not need a guide who sees everything perfectly.
Your child needs a guide who keeps seeking the Father.
Father, teach me to guide my child well.