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Most Christian parents are bombarded with all kinds of advice and plans and programs for how to be a great parent. In parenting eight kids over the last twenty-five years, Julie Lyles Carr and her husband experienced plenty of opportunity for learning, but it was when they began to understand it was about parenting each child according to their own unique needs and personality style that something wonderful happened.

Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church in South Wales and then South-East England. It was a childhood fraught with bitter family conflict, the ever-present threat of hell and damnation, and a burgeoning cycle of temptation, sin and shame. After a devastating loss of faith in his late teens, Matt began his search for salvation elsewhere, turning to books before developing a growing relationship with alcohol and drugs. This story takes us to his bleakest, most desperate moments and recounts his struggle towards the light.

From the peaceful origins in Eden, where Adam and Eve roamed naked without shame, to the complexities of modern parenting, God’s blueprint for fatherhood has always been clear: no shame, just freedom. But how far we've strayed from this path. While we focus on physical safety and boast about providing basics like food, clothing, and shelter—achievements even the birds and flowers manage—God expects more. A father’s love transcends band-aids on scraped knees and baby-proofed houses.