How the Ancient Priestly Blessing Impacts Modern Hearts
As parents and grandparents, we have daily opportunities to bless, affirm and encourage our children. Our simple, yet life-defining prayers shape our children’s character. We see the fruit of those prayers forming right before our eyes.
Now, imagine the impact a weekly formal blessing could have. . .
Kids’ Lesson - Feast of Tabernacles
🎯 Lesson Objectives
Celebrate: Understand that God created feasts to rejoice with His people.
Connect: Discover how this feast points directly to the person and work of Jesus.
Experience: Relive biblical traditions through daily family reenactments.
Summer Reading Ideas for your Kids
I wish I had known about these publications when my kids were little. So today, I am sharing them with you.
Identity in Christ for Preschoolers
Lesson Objective:
To help children recognize that God’s voice is the only one we need to listen to about our identity.
Teaching Preschoolers to Hear God’s Voice
A simple, concrete teaching for preschoolers on hearing God’s voice. And seven activations that are appropriate for children of all ages.
Seven reasons to teach our children about the Biblical feasts
Passover and the other feasts are not Jewish holidays. They are God’s appointed seasons. . . .
Allaying the Fears of Children
“Being afraid is fun,” my daughter confessed to the counselor. “I get to sleep on Mommy’s floor.”
We had taken our seven-year-old to the counselor . . .
A Formula for Children’s Books?
I am offering a different worldview to conventional wisdom. The worldview I am demonstrating is one where children don’t rely on their own understanding, . . .
Children’s Dreams and Nightmares: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding
If your children suffer from nightmares, then this is the book for you!
Your children are dreaming spiritual dreams . . .
Keeping Christ in Christmas - for the Kids
10 ideas to keep Jesus at the center of your Christmas.
Beyond the Bible Story: Making Quiet Time Personal
1. Introduce the idea of a personal devotional time by starting with a family devotional time. Have the expectation that after family devotions is a personal quiet time with the Lord.
2. Center your family devotional time . . .
Ignite Your Kids’ Hearts for God’s Word
5 ideas to ignite your child’s heart for God and His Word.
An Enduring House
King David longed to build a temple for God in Jerusalem. God said that since it was in David’s heart to build Him a house, God would . . . .
A Manual for Children's Deliverance
In my research for the children’s books that I am writing, I discovered this treasure that I just had to share with you!
Yes, children can be harassed by demons. The two biblical examples are in Matthew 15 and Luke 9. Our children today are bombarded with more . . .
You Look Like An Angel of God
I wore silver wings and a halo yesterday. The preschoolers love it!
God called me to write a series of picture books for ages 4-6 that normalize His supernatural. God is always speaking to us through His Holy Spirit . . .
Recapture the Wonder of Christmas
Do you stare in wonder at sparkling snowcapped mountains, or the shimmering feathers of a hummingbird suspended in flight? Do you gasp at the shifting colors of the sunset or the delicate fragrance of a perfect rose? Or do you take for granted God’s miraculous wonders? . . .
As The Deer Pants for The Water
My favorite part of raising children was the bedtime routine. I spent quiet, intimate time connecting with each of them. I would lay with them and pray with them. Stories and songs were often part of our quiet time together. One of the songs I often sang over them was, “As the Deer Pants for the Water.”
Every time I read Psalm 42, . . .
Josiah's Fire
I happened on this book by accident, and now I am recommending it to everyone I know!
I discovered it browsing at the half-priced bookstore looking for “God stories.” My favorite God stories reveal His beauty through broken people. The Cullen family felt broken and defeated as they struggled with their son Josiah’s autism. Then God did something miraculous! . . . .
Frustration
“Your children teach you patience,” my mother declared when I told I did not have the patience to raise children. She was right, of course.
I remember the day that my two-year-old knocked over her sister’s block tower . . . again. . . .