Category: Bible + Faith

Walk Your Family Through The Bible: The Gospels

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By Jessica Wolstenholm

How can we connect all we’ve learned through the Old Testament to the Good News of Jesus for our kids? I think my kiddos did a happy dance when I told them we were starting the New Testament this month and learning about Jesus. Though we enjoyed our walk through the Old Testament, it doesn’t […]

Walk Your Family Through The Bible: Psalms, Proverbs & The Writings

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By Jessica Wolstenholm

How can we fill the hearts and minds of our children with wisdom they can carry with them into a new school year? I know. It’s way too soon to be talking “back to school”. It’s barely the middle of summer! But it’s never too early to prepare our kids for life beyond the comforts […]

Walk Your Family Through The Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah & Esther

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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 […]

Walk Your Family Through The Bible: Kings & Chronicles

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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 […]

Pour Yourself Out: 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Volunteering

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 […]

Choosing Structure As Freedom: Reflections on Lent

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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 […]

How Do You Integrate Faith and Learning?

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 […]

How to Talk to Your Kids About Heaven

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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 […]

How to Teach Revelation to Kids: Revelation Video Series with Phil Vischer

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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 […]