Gospel-Centered Books for Parents and Teens

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GOSPEL-CENTERED encouragement

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From one imperfect mom to another

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for THE EARLY YEARS TO THE EMPTY NEST

Every book Kristen has written starts from the same place: the conviction that the gospel is not just something to believe but something to actually live and find rest in. Whether you're raising young kids, navigating the teen years, or learning to let go — there's something here for where you are.

Parenting Ahead Preparing Now for the Teen Years

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Parenting Ahead helps parents of younger kids get there on purpose. Not with a perfect strategy, but with a gospel foundation sturdy enough to hold when things get hard. Kristen brings her years in the counseling room to help you see the connection between what you're doing today and who your kids are becoming — and where fear or insecurity might be quietly driving more than you realize.

What you'll take away: A clear-eyed look at your own parenting tendencies and what's really driving them — Practical, grace-rooted tools for building a home where honest conversations can happen — The confidence to parent for the long haul, even when you get it wrong

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you don't have to figure it out when you get there, lay the foundation now

Evaluate your parenting style to identify whether you are under- or over-parenting. 

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Discover practical strategies for redemptive parenting and living out the gospel of grace in your home.   

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Get encouragement to take wise, faithful steps while depending on God’s grace for parenting mistakes and failures. 

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Praise for Books by Kristen Hatton

Praise for Books by Kristen Hatton

TESTIMONIALS

  • "This book is full of ways we can connect and communicate with our kids and create a family culture, but it doesn’t leave you feeling burdened - like one more thing to add to your never-ending to-do list. Kristen consistently brings it back to the freedom that only the Gospel can give us."

    Megan Michelson, Birds & Bees

  • “Kristen Hatton has provided us with a resource that takes Scripture seriously, leading students into a deep understanding and application of the biblical text, which honors both the unchanging nature of scriptural truth and its relevance in a changing youth culture landscape.”

    Walt Mueller, President, Center for Parent/Youth Understanding

  • “We are story people, created by a storytelling God. Get Your Story Straight is a brilliant resource designed to help students discover the beauty and power of the greatest story ever written, the story of Jesus. This guide provides a creative and clear way for students to unpack the living and breathing Word of God.”

    Louie Giglio, Passion City Church/Passion Conferences

  • “As a father of teens, I often feel overwhelmed and ill-equipped with the changes that social media are making in our everyday lives. Kristen Hatton has provided a huge dose of information, wisdom, and gospel-oriented encouragement in this book. I highly recommend it.”

    Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Theology, Westminster Seminary California; author of Core Christianity

More from Kristen

For parents, teens, and anyone ready to see the gospel as good news they can live today.

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Face Time: Your Identity in a Selfie World

Social media and our culture tell your daughter who she should be. The gospel tells her who she already is. Face Time is a warm, honest, hope-filled guide helping teen girls stop looking to likes and followers, their appearance, performance, or relationships, for their identity — and start looking to the One who made them and loves them completely.

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Get Your Story Straight: A Teen Guide to Learning and Living the Gospel

This yearlong devotional rescues teens from the pressure to perform and invites them into something better — a story bigger than themselves, where sins are forgiven, the future is secured, and life has real meaning. Written for individual use but works beautifully in small groups with a mentor.

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The Gospel-Centered Life in Exodus for Students

The first in a series tracing God's story of redemption through the whole Bible, this twelve-lesson study helps students learn to read Scripture and connect it to their real lives. As they follow the Israelites — grumbling, disobeying, trying to save themselves — they'll recognize themselves. And they'll see, over and over, a God who gives grace to the guilty.

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Every book. One thread…

Grace over performance. A home shaped by the gospel looks different and feels different than one shaped by striving.

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The heart behind the behavior. Rules change behavior. The gospel changes people.

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Faith anchored in God’s promises. Keeping our eyes on Jesus because life doesn’t always look like what we imagined.

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New BOok Coming 2027

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A new book is on the way

Kristen’s next title goes straight to the heart of the treadmill life. For everyone longing for relief from something and seeking peace, this is for you. Be the first to know when it releases.

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ABOUT

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I’m Kristen, CHRISTIAN AUTHOR, COUNSELOR, and SPEAKER

I help parents NAME THE TREADMILL THEY’re ON AND find relief the gospel was always meant to be.

I'm an author, licensed counselor, and speaker and I've spent years writing and sitting with parents who love God and still feel like they're falling short. Everything I do points toward one thing: the gospel is better news than most of us are living. This is an honest space to see how that reshapes everyday life.

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