Prayers for Small Children (And Adults)
Here are prayers we prayed with our children at mealtime and bedtime.
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Here are prayers we prayed with our children at mealtime and bedtime.
The words and actions of parents and caregivers are influencing the faith of children at any given moment.
Do you wonder how to teach your children how to ask God for forgiveness? Discover the gift of confession.
Should we hold too tightly to our children and their childhood, we may not allow them the freedom they need to grow with life’s changes.
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Sometimes, we miss opportunities. Sometimes that's OK. But Easter is no time to keep silent.
Wondering how to guide your children into a relationship with God? Seize the everyday moments to guide your children into a life of prayer.
Here are 4 ways to grow with emerging adults (in a world that is vastly different from the world in which their parents came of age).
For my own sanity and in the effort to do what’s best for my kids, I need to get off this roller coaster of feelings about “real” vs “online” church.
Here’s how to use family devotional resources to truly build lifelong faith with your kids.
Kids need to see that their parents believe the truth of God’s faithfulness; he does not leave us to face crises like Coronavirus alone, but he walks with us through times of trouble.
As children near adulthood, a parent's influence on shaping their faith diminishes. Here's how one dad came to that realization and what he did next.
At 46 days (when you include Sundays), Lent is almost twice as long as Advent. Use these simple paper chains to help children visualize the countdown to Easter.
Constant demands placed on individuals and families create what seems like little space for developing faith. We long for expanding a depth of relationship with God—but where do we find the time?
I was heartbroken this morning when I heard that a 17-year-old young man took his own life. Please, please don't miss this opportunity to start a conversation on suicide today.
When I first saw Frozen, I didn't quite get it. Why did it resonate with so many people? I actually remember saying I was unsure of the movie because of the “sassiness of some of the characters.” Since then, my perspective has changed.
A year ago our church, CrossPoint in Chino, Calif., started a grandparenting ministry to encourage other grandparents to meet and discuss topics of vital interest to our grandchidren.
How do we know that our children have made the leap from following their parents’ faith to actually “walking in truth” on their own? Kristen Welch would argue for two measuring sticks: gratitude and generosity.
One mom’s story of how her child followed her heart and, with her church, was welcomed at the Lord’s Table for the sacrament of communion.
What if God wants us to talk to Him more like my two-year-old talks to me? Maybe He really does want the messy, the mundane, and everything in between. What an incredible thought!
Locusts. They were good enough for John the Baptist; they are good enough for your toddler.
Without sounding too negative, it has occurred to me more than once that parenting keeps circling back around to the topic of sin management — the parents’ first of all, and then the child’s.
I’m convinced that the most authentic faith formation happens in organic, everyday, non-formal interactions with the people God puts in our circles.
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Here are seven ideas of activities with the potential to form faith that you can do with your kids for little or no dough.