What If Your Most Important Work Happens at Home?
Most parents pray their children will grow up to love God. Few have been given a roadmap for what that actually looks like day to day.
Raise Them Right is a biblical roadmap for raising children who know, love, and follow Christ — built on Proverbs 22:6 and the conviction that faith isn't caught by accident. It's cultivated on purpose.
Coming Late Summer 2026
You Love Your Kids. But Love Alone Isn't a Plan.
Maybe you're in the thick of it. You take them to church. You pray at dinner. You try to lead by example. But somewhere between soccer practice, homework, and the pull of every screen in the house, you wonder: are they actually getting it? Is the faith sticking? You're doing all the right things — so why does it feel like something's missing?
Or maybe you're at the beginning. You're staring at your toddler — this perfect, wide-eyed little person God handed you — and already feeling the weight of what's coming. The world is loud, and it's getting louder. You can see the pull before it's even started, and one question keeps surfacing: How do I get this right? How do I raise this child the way the Lord designed, not just the way the culture defaults?
Both of those places lead to the same gap: most of us were never given a plan. We inherited the prayer that our kids would turn out okay, but nobody showed us what intentional, biblical shepherding actually looks like — from the first years all the way through the day they leave your house.
"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it."
— Proverbs 22:6 (ESV)
That verse isn't just a promise. It's a job description. Raise Them Right is the plan that goes with it.
A Biblical Roadmap for Raising Children Who Know, Love, and Follow Christ
1.The Parental Mandate. Before you can parent well, you need to understand what God actually asks of you. Raise Them Right begins with the biblical mandate to train, teach, lead, encourage, and protect your child — not as a checklist, but as a calling.
2.Parenting Starts with You. Your walk with the Lord, your wounds, your marriage — these shape everything your child sees and absorbs. This section turns the lens on you before it ever turns to your kids.
3.Guiding Principles. Core convictions that serve as a compass for the daily, unglamorous work of raising children: seeing them as gifts to be stewarded, embracing your role as their teacher, and building a home environment where faith can actually take root.
4.The Parenting Toolbox. Twelve practical tools for the real challenges parents face — from obedience and communication to navigating teen dating, attention imbalances, abuse and trauma, and the parenting mistakes we all make. Each one is built to be used this week, not studied and shelved.
5.Project 13. The heart of the book and the inspiration for its name. Three purposeful parent-child trips — one before middle school, one before high school, and one the summer before college — each built around 12 heart-level questions and 31 Stepping Stones that cover foundational beliefs, character formation, and practical application. These aren't vacations. They're intentional discipleship experiences designed to mark the pivotal thresholds in your child's life.
This is more than a book. It's a biblical roadmap for every stage, from the toddler years to the day they walk out your front door.
About Blake S. Crawford
Blake S. Crawford is a faith leader, father of three daughters, and the author of Raise Them Right.
Years ago, standing in a school parking lot while checking his daughters in late, a man named Mr. G told Blake something that changed the trajectory of his family: "If you raise them right, they'll bring you incredible joy. The best times my wife and I had with our girls were during the teen years."
Those words became the assignment. Raise Them Right is the result — a biblical roadmap built on the principles, practices, and hard-won lessons that carried Blake's family through the teenage years and into the kind of relationships he once feared were impossible.
Blake also writes the Coram Deo daily devotional — a written devotional delivered to your inbox every morning at 5:00 AM and shared on Facebook — and hosts the Coram Deo Podcast, where each day's passage comes to life with added commentary and teaching. He lives in Naples, Florida, where he continues to believe that the most powerful church in the world is the one that gathers around your kitchen table.
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Your Child Doesn't Need a Perfect Parent. They Need a Faithful One.
Raise Them Right was written for the parent who is already trying — and who wants to do more than hope their child finds faith someday.
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