By Jessica Wolstenholm
How can we be intentional about our kids’ faith during the lazy (or crazy!) days of summer? Summer is upon us and it would be so easy to set our Bibles on a shelf and forget about them while we spend our days hanging around by the pool. Yeah, I’m one to let things go […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
We mixed things up a bit this month because as much as I love tradition, kids get bored and disinterested when things feel the same all the time. So for this month’s viewing of What’s In The Bible?, we watched while cooking and eating dinner. The kids helped me in the kitchen while learning about […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
What does it look like to be the hands and feet of Jesus today? What are appropriate ways for children to start serving their community? How can you serve together as a family? These are some questions I’ve journeyed with the past two years. In this 2015 blog series, Raising Micah 6:8 Kids, we’ll follow […]
By Christine Bailey
Lent. It’s the season of giving up, sacrificing, preparing. During “Lententide,” we turn our eyes and our hearts more fully towards Christ and the cross in anticipation of Easter Sunday coming soon. Growing up Southern Baptist, my family didn’t celebrate Lent – it was something my Catholic friends in my small New Jersey hometown mentioned […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
This year, we’re rounding up some of our favorite bloggers to get their thoughts on faith and family. We asked them: How do you make the Bible part of your kids’ learning, regardless of what type of school they attend? Leah of As We Walk Along the Road We do a daily devotion time together […]
By Editorial Team
The film release of Heaven Is For Real brings the best-selling book about a boy who visited Heaven to life on the big screen–and into the mainstream. Whether of not they see the movie, chances are your kids have some questions about Heaven. Talking about Heaven is a two-sided coin. The old saying goes, everybody […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
Teaching the book of Revelation to kids may seem like a daunting task, but VeggieTales(r) and What’s in the Bible? creator Phil Vischer offers some great ideas in this short video about his approach to Revelation in Volume 13 of the Buck Denver Asks(r) … What’s in the Bible? series. Volume 13: God’s Kingdom […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
Most of us learned the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego when we were children. The story goes that King Nebuchadnezzar built a huge golden statue of himself and commanded the people to bow down and worship him. The punishment for not doing this was to be thrown into a huge furnace. Shadrach, Meshach and […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
Saying the Lord’s Prayer can sometimes be rather rote. We’ve memorized it. We’ve taught it to our children. We even have beautiful musical compositions based on it. But when was the last time you took the time to really think about the words, and how they fit into our lives? Bible scholars, much smarter than […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
There’s been a lot of talk lately about fasting and giving up something during this season of Lent. My good friend, Kathy Lonsinger, who runs the wonderful online ministry A Gentle Answer, recently posed a suggestion for all of us. She asked that we fast from gossip and quick judgmental condemnation, loosely veiled behind […]