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SERVE ’13 – Children’s Ministries Servant Campaign
Providing excellent Children’s Ministries is an essential part of reaching families with the hope of Christ. This requires an army of faithful servants. We’re asking you to prayerfully consider how the Lord might enable you to take part in this effort. Continue reading
Seasonal Prep for Families
In many ways, the launch of fall classes is a time when many parents consider getting into church. We need to get ready to reach these families, and we have to help our kids get ready too. Here’s a seasonal reminder for parents with some important tips for helping them prepare their families for the fall.
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Starting Spiritual Conversations at Home
In each week’s Sunday School classes at Faith, all of your kids are learning about the same passage of Scripture in ways that are appropriate to their respective levels of development. The goal of this approach is to help parents engage all of their toddler and elementary-aged children in spiritual conversations about a common subject. To help you interact with you kids about these lesson, we’re providing you with some simple conversation starters, suggestions for family devotions, and ideas for helping your kids apply what they learned in Sunday School throughout the week. Continue reading
Posted in Ministry Updates, Tips and Tools
Tagged children, children's ministries, discipleship, Faith Kids @ Home, parenting
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How Should You Respond to Children Who Don’t Obey God? Part 2
It’s hard when a child you love is rejecting God’s Word and wants to live his/her life in a way that is pleasing to them, but not pleasing to God. But with God’s help, and focusing on obedience to God’s … Continue reading
Posted in Questions and Answers, Tips and Tools
Tagged children, forgiveness, grace, parenting, Parents, rebellion
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Lessons for the Church from Joe Paterno
Photo credit: Richard Paul Kane / Shutterstock.com I have been in Joe Paterno’s shoes many times. In case you have been off visiting another planet, the storied coach of Penn State’s football program agreed to retire at the end of … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, children, counseling, government, legal
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What Your Kids Need This Fall
Getting ready for the fall involves more than new clothes and school supplies. Your kids need help getting spiritually prepared as well. Kids Need to Be in Church Let’s be up front about this: we want your kids involved in … Continue reading
Extreme Makeover: Mind Edition
Have you’ve ever seen Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? On that show, they renovate homes. They clear them out and remake them in such a way that the original home is all but unrecognizable. God wants us to do the same thing with our minds. Continue reading
Posted in Bible Basics, Devotionals
Tagged children, growth, repentance, temptation, thinking
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Discipling Kids: New Help for Families
This fall, our children’s Sunday School classes will begin using a line of curriculum called Generations of Grace. It’s published by Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA, where John MacArthur serves as pastor. The curriculum has a lot of great features that will not only improve the depth of instruction in the classroom but will also help parents to continue the discipleship process at home. Continue reading
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Tagged children, curriculum, family, Generations of Grace, growth, kids, Sunday School
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Learning the Books of the Bible
“How do I teach my kids to navigate the Bible?” That’s a question I get asked a lot. Parents want to help their kids learn Scripture, but in order to do that, they first have to teach their kids how … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, children, family, grow, kids, parenting, songs, songs for kids, Worship
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Don’t Freak Out: Overcoming Worry
What are you afraid of? What do you worry about? What are you trying to control? Don’t allow these things to rule your life. Instead, take a couple of steps to evict fear and worry from your mind in favor of more Christ-centered tenants.
This spring, we’re taking our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders through a series called Thinking Like Christ. Based on John Vandegriff’s helpful book In the Arena of the Mind, we’re encouraging students to recognize the sinful patterns of thinking that exist in their lives and to replace those patterns with the forms of thinking outlined in Philippians 4:8. The goal of this study is to help kids use their minds in ways that will produce godly habits of living. Continue reading
