![]() ![]() In the seventies, Margy and Tedd and their children had an open home ministry. They have three beautiful granddaughters and six handsome grandsons! Tedd and Margy have three children, two sons and a daughter. Margy grew up in a pastor’s home in western Pennsylvania, graduated from Nyack (Missionary) College, and was married to Tedd Tripp on June 8, 1968. Div., Westminster Theological Seminary, D. Tripp is a graduate of Geneva College, B.A., Philadelphia Theological Seminary, M. Tedd is the author of A Parent’s Handbook for Shepherding a Child’s Heart, Hints for Parents, and with his wife, Margy, Instructing a Child’s Heart.ĭr. Tedd was married to his wife, Margy, in 1968 they are parents of three adult children and nine grandchildren. Tedd Tripp is Pastor Emeritus of Grace Fellowship Church in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, where he served from 1980 until 2012. Tedd is known around the world for the best-selling child rearing book, Shepherding a Child’s Heart, and as the presenter of Shepherding a Child’s Heart Ministries. Tedd has developed and teaches materials that encourage the people of God to understand gospel hope for the ways that human beings are pushed and pulled by the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Tedd Tripp is the president of Shepherding the Heart Ministries. If we remember that behavior mirrors the heart, then the route to lasting change for both our children and ourselves is the grace and power of the gospel. Behaviorism focuses on behavior rather than the desires, fears, idols or passions of the heart. We miss the gospel because behaviorism by-passes the heart. We forget that the heart is the wellspring of behavior. We miss the heart and we miss the gospel. Once we have made behavior the focus in correction and discipline, we open ourselves up to all the tricks and tools parents use to manage behavior.īut when we head down the behavior management road, two things happen. We instinctively see behavior as the problem. The temptation when things have gone wrong is to correct behavior. The goal of our virtual seminars and teaching materials is to connect the hearts of God’s people to the power and grace of the gospel. ![]() The things you give your heart to set the course of life for you. Every drive for meaning and significance originates in the heart. ![]() For both our children and us, the heart, with its passions and desires, sets the course of life. We are committed to the truth that the heart is the wellspring of life. Shepherding the Heart Ministries’ mission is connecting the hearts of God’s people to the power and grace of the gospel. “A biblical and practical sequel to Shepherding a Child’s Heart.About Shepherding The Heart Ministries When we miss the heart, we miss the Gospel. ![]() Kirk and Chelsea Cameron, Actors/Speakers If you have children, you need to know Tedd and Margy Tripp.” Picking up where Shepherding a Child’s Heart left off, this new book is clear, biblical, and very practical. In a sea of child-raising materials flooding the market today, Instructing a Child’s Heart is a solid rock on which we can stand. “As parents of six spunky children, we’ve found Tedd and Margy Tripp’s parenting advice to be simply the best. John MacArthur, Pastor-Teacher, Grace Community Church This insightful book on godly childrearing is everything we would expect from the author who brought us Shepherding a Child’s Heart. Its tremendous value comes from the fact that it centers on the essential but oft-neglected heart of biblical parenting: the Gospel of grace. Instructing a Child’s Heart is an essential “how-to” manual for Shepherding a Child’s Heart, helping parents provide their children with a biblical framework for approaching and understanding all of life. This formative instruction is not discipline or correction rather, it is intentionally building a biblical culture of thought and understanding in our homes. Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd and Margy Tripp provides a crucial foundation for the principles in Shepherding a Child’s Heart, teaching parents the importance of developing and shaping their children’s thinking. (NOTE: You can read a third-party impartial review of this book here.) ![]()
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