Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father's Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood

Excellent book, adds a lot of value from a Christian perspective, Exactly what I was looking for

This is a book that provides practical steps and keen insights into how to raise a modern-day Christian man. It also shows you how to repair the broken relationships between sons and their fathers.

This is an awesome and very encouraging book for Dads. I recommend every dad or dad to be to read this book. It has been a game changer for me. We need more Godly men raising Godly men.

Great book! It is my go to book for a baby shower gift when the couple is having a boy!

I picked up Raising a Modern Day Knight while attending a recent Family Life marriage conference. I'm sure there isn't a dad out there that doesn't want to raise his kids properly, and especially his son. I have a five year old and know that right now, I am his hero, his best friend, the best guy in the world. I don't want to squander his admiration and unconditional love. I want to know how I can raise my son so he will be a strong man. This book attempts to answer that question. This is a Focus on the Family book and broaches the subject of parenting from a Christian point of view. It's also a very short book and can probably be read in a couple of hours. In its brevity, you aren't going to get a lot of content, but what you do get is good stuff.Author Robert Lewis equates raising a son to the process of raising a young man to be a knight back in the dark ages. At times, the analogy is cumbersome, but the book still offers a lot of good points. Also, the book is filled with tons of scriptural references, which at times caused my eyes to glaze over. I feel the scripture references needed to be backed by more examples or antecdotes. This book is primarly about teaching your older kid how to be a man, and how to do it through ceremonies. The book doesn't include much discussion on how kids think and act, so don't expect that in here. This book is probably for men with kids approaching puberty and older, because it focuses a lot on guiding your young boys into manhood through memorable ceromonies.Lewis men need to teach their boys how to be men by providing a strong example in Jesus, living right in their own lives, guiding them through memorable ceremonies and surrounding them with a community of men. The ceremonies are a big focus of the book, and although the author says he provides a lot of examples of different types of ceremonies, they really are all the same. You may not want to give your son a family crest at his college graduation, but the book does stress the importance of ceremonies for your children Some of the most power ful segments of the book are when fathers mention they failed their sons, or when sons said their dads weren't there for them.Every father should read this book and every father should understand that the role of a father is the most important job they will ever have.

I didn't read much of the other reviews so I am uncertain to if other reviews commented on this. I appreciated the book in so many ways but it made me feel like I had nothing really to contribute to my son as a mother. Even if there was a father in the home how would I support the celebrations except for behind the scenes? In some aspects the book made me feel left out of the process all together. I still wholly recommend that this book is read I just would have liked to hear about the wives perspective of the processes and how they supported the processes. This book makes me feel like I should scramble to go out and find a suitable man when in our reality our home is currently peaceful and loving and thriving. Yes I do understand that fellowship, uncles and cousins and grandpa's can help but there is truly that growing gap of single parent homes with the mother's as the head. Mothers add to the moral integrity, and vision of what a woman should be to the family and to God. Mother's add a humbleness, softness and grace that is not always present. If a woman is all over the place (mentally) does a knight just leave her or does he practice some sort of patience. Is he taught how on the path as the head of a home how to keep it balanced and bring her back to her place. No I do not believe in a subservient wifely role but I do think that both parts need to rely on each other and take the proper places. This book does not cover any of these things. How does the father show the mother to support this process? Great read still.Closer to the end of the book it did appear to me that the pages had fillers and I was not as pulled in as in the beginning of the book. But we all know that opinions are subjective.

I cannot thank Robert Lewis enough for this book. I pastor a church and will be ordering the "Raising a Modern Day Night" DVD series, as well as enough books for the men in my church. I am going to teach a class where our men read a chapter or two at a time and then get together and discuss what we are learning. I have already mentioned this to a couple of men in the Church and both of them said that they themselves wanted to be a modern day night. Robert Lewis also has a .com website called Mensfraternity where I am going to be ordering his Manhood series for myself and my church.The book is divided into five sections. They are "The Need For Modern Day Knights", where Lewis lays out the desperate need in the modern world for fathers to take their role as dad seriously; "The Knight and his Ideals", where a vision of manhood, code of conduct and the need for a transcendent cause being instilled in our sons is laid out; "The Knight and His Ceremonies", which for me was the most interesting part of the book; "The Knight and His Round Table", which speaks of the community of men that your son needs around him to reinforce the stuff discussed in section 2; "The Knight and His Legacy", which has a very important chapter for dad's who think that they have blown it and it is too late for them. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough to every man. Some men will say "I don't have any sons", but every man has been a son and this book will heal and help you in your manhood or in your relationship with your father. May God richly bless you as you take the journey through this great book. Buy it, I promise you will not regret it.

Raising a Modern Day Knight is arguable one of the most important books of a generation. The book is filled with practical steps on how Fathers can empower their sons to be men that contribute to their homes and society at large.

Being a father of two young sons, I was thankful to read this book early, while they are still very young, and I look forward to taking them through the ceremonies laid out in this book. Though the concept of 'knighthood' and ceremonies could perhaps, for some, be on the cheesy side of things, the truth behind them are powerful.After reading this book I'm more aware of the impact I can have on my sons and feel empowered with the right tools to help guide them down the path of manhood as they grow.

Awesome book for all the dads out there who're willing to raise their sons to be good christian men!

GREAT read if you're a father to a son.A MUST read!!

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