Teach Kids!

Make Bible story time with your child interesting. 5 tips to help your child enjoy reading the Bible, keep them engaged, and teach kids biblical truths.

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The plans God has in our lives often don’t match the ideal lifestyle we have preconceived in our mind. Biblical individuals, such as Jeremiah, perceived themselves in one manner, while God had another story in mind for him.

You know, God gave us a wonderful gift when He gave us a sabbath day of rest. Jesus said the sabbath was made for man, not man made for the sabbath. In other words, God gave it because it’s good for us, not to burden us with a religious tradition.

Four important skills or spiritual disciplines for kids involve Scripture, worship, prayer and giving. The Bible commands us to practice each of them diligently. Do we practice them to earn God’s favor? If yes, that’s a wrong motivation. The right motivation is to do them for our own good, and to mature in our spiritual life. God loves to see us do well and prosper, so it does have the effect of pleasing Him too.

Faith is like a muscle, it has to be exercised in order to grow. It takes effort and then the effort pays off, you start reaping benefits, and it gets easier. James 1 says the testing of our faith produces perseverance.

Matthew 5:6 says “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled. Teach kids to recognize that their spirit is hungry for God’s goodness.

Relationships are everything. If we want to lead children to Christ and disciple them, there needs to be relationship. For there to be relationship, there must be two-way communication.

Everyone seems to have a favorite season. Mine is definitely NOT winter. Winter means cold air, short days and long nights, and bare trees.