On Your Heart: A Three-Year Devotional for Families
In 2003, inspired by USAF Colonel Rick Husband of the space shuttle Columbia, A.J. Genco set out to write a devotional for his own family, laboring over it for ten years. Yet when he had barely finished, he was taken from this earth by a sudden illness. Though this devotional was never intended for publication, A.J.’s widow desired for it to be published to honor his legacy. Now not only may you and your family be blessed by this resource but we also hope you would be inspired to leave a spiritual legacy for your own family.
A family devotional based on a three-year cycle through the Bible
"Read through the Bible" guide for parents and older children
Daily "Family Worship" lessons for the whole family
Read a psalm or a portion of a Psalm each Sunday
Includes references to the Baptist Confession of Faith and Nicene Creed
Publisher: Free Grace Press
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781952599347
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A. J. Genco received a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later a master of arts in religion from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. He served as a pilot in the US Air Force for twenty years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He was passionate about studying the Bible. His heart’s desire was to disciple his children as followers of Christ. He loved to have conversations about God’s Word. In his free time, he was an avid cyclist, logging thousands of miles solo and hundreds with his children on a tandem bicycle. A.J. lived his faith daily, and his legacy is one of deep abiding faith, humility, and family. A. J. went to be with the Lord on January 1, 2017.
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‘On Your Heart is a guide for family worship based on a three-year cycle. It provides both Scripture passages to read and discussions questions to ask for each of the nearly 1100 days in the cycle. At the end of three years, you and your family will have read through and discussed the entire Bible together. This is a solid, consistent help toward a valuable and satisfying goal. If the book were nothing more than this it would be worthy of your serious consideration. But describing On Your Heart in this way alone is like reading the description of a stranger’s family tree. Without a knowledge of the people involved you can’t really appreciate what you’re seeing. As you’ll read in more detail inside, A.J. Genco worked for ten years on this curriculum, developing and refining it as he used these pages to lead his wife and children in the daily worship of God together. After its completion, he was suddenly taken from them to heaven. But by leaving this book, he left them with much more than memories of his years of faithfulness as their family shepherd. He also left them a printed legacy they can continue to use to seek God together as a family, generation after generation. And now you can enjoy this blessing with your own family by using On Your Heart.’ Don Whitney, Professor of Biblical Spirituality, Associate Dean for the School of Theology