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Knowing and Loving God, Reflecting His Character January 27, 2023

3 Reasons to Get Your Kids Memorizing Scripture

One day when we were taking a neighbor boy home from school, my kids and I were talking about verses they were memorizing for homework.  The preteen boy riding with us couldn’t understand why he needed to memorize Bible verses at school; after all he could just look them up on the Bible app on his phone, right?  I knew this boy was a thinker, so I tried to explain to him why memorizing scripture is so important, and I hope it made him think.  Many youth and adults feel the same way today.

Reflecting His Character January 1, 2023

To Save or to Spend: Teaching Kids Money Management
from a Biblical Perspective

As we teach our children to know and love God and follow in His ways, encouraging them to honor God with their money is an important task that cannot be neglected. One of the roles my husband plays in parenting our kids is teaching them about money management, since he is both knowledgeable and interested in the topic.  We have also learned from other parents and resources and implemented some basic strategies to help get our kids off to the right start. 

Devotionals, Reflecting His Character January 1, 2023

Character Calendars

As part of the preschool curriculum I am developing, A Heart Like Jesus, I am creating Character Calendars to encourage our children’s character development in fun and simple ways!  Each month I will have a character calendar available for you on a specific virtue that includes ways to practice the character trait, a Bible verse to memorize, and Bible stories to read, and other fun games to encourage your kids!  

Knowing and Loving God, Reflecting His Character September 4, 2022

3 Ways to Help Your Kids to Depend on God

Today we will be discussing a fourth way to reach our children’s hearts: Teaching a Dependence on God.
We live in an independent world where we grow up in a culture with a  “Do it yourself” mentality.  Independence is seen as a strong, desirable trait, and dependence as a weak one.  But in the Kingdom of God, things are reversed.  God’s Word says to rely on the Lord for everything.  In fact, this builds our relationship with God when we depend on Him. 

Reflecting His Character September 4, 2022

5 Ways to Deal with Our Kids’ Sin

As parents we want our kids to have a relationship with God and follow in His ways, but their hearts have to be open to receiving truth and desiring a relationship with God.  This is why it is SO IMPORTANT that we cultivate the heart of our children to desire this from a young age.  We have been discussing 5 Ways to Lead Your Children’s Hearts to Christ, and we talked about the first way: Keeping Distractions at Bay a few weeks ago.  If you missed this post, you can go back and read it here before moving on.  It has some great preventative measures to help keep our children from getting distracted from their relationship with God.

Reflecting His Character June 26, 2022

5 Ways to Lead Your Childrens’ Hearts to Christ

Parenting isn’t easy.  Teaching our kids to show respect, be kind to their siblings, live a life of contentment, and demonstrate a heart to serve others can feel like an uphill battle.  There are so many distractions warring for our children’s hearts, but it is our goal as parents to lead their hearts away from those distractions and straight to the Lord.  Only Jesus, by His saving grace and Holy Spirit can make a true heart change happen with our children.   With that being said, here are five practices to help lead your children’s hearts to Christ.