When you think of Christmas sounds, what comes to your mind… Christmas carols, jingle bells, crowded malls, laughter????
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Thanksgiving can get lost in the noise of family gatherings, travel, Black Friday, and the lead up to Christmas. This season, I would encourage you to take the opportunity to teach your children ways to show gratitude.
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With the holiday season approaching, the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving are a great time to teach your children to practice gratitude.
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While I do not think there is a perfect way to celebrate Halloween, I believe that we can take the opportunity of a broken holiday to be generous, love our neighbors, and ultimately share the gospel. Here are three ways that Christian parents can redeem Halloween for their kids. - Caroline Spears
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This month, we will highlight some of the characteristics of the Holy Spirit and how He can help us parent and grandparent the children that He has blessed us with in our lives.
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David had many reasons in his life for needing to take refuge, like running from King Saul. This particular Psalm, shows a good example for us on how to handle adversity when we are walking through challenging circumstances.
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We can pray that our children and grandchildren will find out what the joy of the Lord is in their lives and that they will have happy, joy-filled, and thankful hearts in their pursuit and worship of Him.
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As we pray specifically for the spiritual maturity of our loved ones, we can pray that the Lord God will teach and instruct them daily.
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DId you know there are 66 chapters in the Bible dedicated to David and 59 references to his life in the New Testament? He is mentioned in the Bible 983 times. Clearly, he is an important person to study in the Bible.
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Paul provides believers with a self-defense course in Ephesians 6, and Jesus equips us with all of the spiritual armor.
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We need to pray that our loved ones will know where to go and that they will go each day to get their strength and their power from our mighty creator!
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Praying for our children and grandchildren is one of the most important things we can do each day when we send our loved ones out into the world. It is vital that we keep them covered in prayer.
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Last week, Josh Conner, the spiritual formation pastor at my church, Parkway Hills, gave a fantastic sermon about discipling. As Christians, we know discipling must be a key component in our life and something we must do as Christ followers…
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Like my post yesterday, I had also printed out and saved another set of prayers from Proverbs 31 Ministries in March of 2014 and these were for boys….
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Recently I was looking through an old prayer journal and I found a devotion I loved. If I find something particularly helpful, I save it, and like an old-fashioned scrap book, I tape the devotion or prayer in my journal…
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I pray my children will not fall victim to the lies of the enemy and that they would know their worth comes from God. I hope and pray my children know they are loved so much that God sent His Son for them…
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For someone who dabbles in worry and fear as a hobby, I have really had to work hard at ridding myself of this extracurricular activity of mine. As I have grown in my walk with Jesus, I have seen how He instructs us often in scripture not to fear…
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Would you say you are a content person? I know when I was younger, I was not very content. I was guilty of filling my time and my life with things other than God…
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A couple of posts ago, I mentioned this verse. Then it came up again in some of my quiet time so I feel like it must be something for me to focus on this year. Often I love to look at the same scripture but in different translations. I love to see the differences in words that are used in the different translations…
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“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:17. I love this verse for the new year! As we all are making resolutions or setting goals for the year, I love what this verse speaks to for all of us. If we are in Christ, we are a new creation. Each year, I try to make some goals...
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