God's Design

Parents celebrate both the sons and the daughters that God gives them.


It’s more important than ever to teach those sons and daughters to celebrate who God made them, too.


Through this illustrated guide, parents can begin the discussion with both boys and girls about God’s wise and beautiful design for them. Wrong ideas about gender identity are lining up to influence our children, and they are no longer too young to learn what it means to be men and women!


Sally Michael and Gary Steward partner to bring a male-and-female approach to the topic of gender roles—one that is united together under the authority of God’s plan in His Word. Through examples and stories from Scripture, they present this difficult topic delicately and in a way that even the youngest children can understand.


Don’t leave your children to be confused or ashamed of who they are—help them to rejoice in who God designed them to be!


“A user-friendly, Scripture-saturated guidebook for young children, while still challenging older children and even parents to embrace God’s plan with joy and thanksgiving. An essential resource for Christian families in an increasingly sexualized and gender confused culture.”

—Candice Watters, Author, Start Your Family and Get Married



“This wonderful little book brims with wonder at the Lord's creative intelligence. It savors the way that Christ renews manhood and womanhood, calling us all to a better plan and a grander design than the world offers.”

—Owen Strachan, President, The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood


SALLY MICHAEL is the cofounder, curriculum author, and publishing consultant of Children Desiring God. She is also an author, a speaker, and former Minister for Children at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis.


GARY STEWARD is an assistant professor of history at Colorado Christian University. Previously he served as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.