There is a troubling trend showing up among teenagers. They are discontent and rebellious, jumping ship as soon as they think they can survive without the family-- some as young as sixteen years old. Michael Pearl addressed this issue in a series of No Greater Joy Magazine articles in 2006. These have now been compiled into this book, along with new material and an additional two chapters covering further issues.

In recent years men have been given a lot of mixed messages as to what it means to be a man, husband or father. Men hate mixed messages. Just tell us like it is (or should be) without all of the extra verbiage. That’s exactly what Mike Pearl does in eliminating the conflicting messages and getting to the meat of the matter. Discover God’s design for a man and how can you find joy doing what you were designed to do? Learn your responsibility as a man/husband/father and what is not? Learn ho...

In 1994 Michael and Debi Pearl published To Train Up a Child. The book has sold over 625,000 copies, becoming "the handbook on child training" for many families. The Pearls received so many child training questions in the mail that they began publishing a free bimonthly magazine to answer them -- No Greater Joy. As the subscriptions grew into the tens of thousands, subscribers kept asking for back issues, thus the publication of No Greater Joy Volume One, Volume Two and Volume Three -- eac...

Three thousand years ago, a wise man said, "Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Good training is not crisis management; it is what you do before the need of discipline arises. Most parenting is accidental rather than deliberate. Imagine building a house that way. We don't need to reinvent training. There are child training principles and methods that have worked from antiquity. To neglect deliberate training is to shove your child i...

In 1994, Michael and Debi Pearl published To Train up a Child. The book has sold over 660,000 copies, becoming a "handbook on child trainig" for many families. The Pearls received so many child training questions that they started a free magazine to answer them-No Greater Joy. Demand for the back issues became so great that they decided to make the answers available in a book. This book represents about two years of articles. If you have questions about child training, chances are you will...

In 1994, Michael and Debi Pearl published To Train up a Child. The book has sold over 660,000 copies, becoming a "handbook on child trainig" for many families. The Pearls received so many child training questions that they started a free magazine to answer them-No Greater Joy. Demand for the back issues became so great that they decided to make the answers available in a book. This book represents about two years of articles. If you have questions about child training, chances are you will...