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Our Top 10 Devotionals for Kids

Are you looking for great gift ideas for your kids, or other young children on your shopping list? What better gift than an inspiring devotional that will speak to a ...

Read The Bible With Your Family During National Bible Week

This week is National Bible Week (November 13-19) – a time when families across the country will explore Scripture together to learn more about God, prayer, faith, and spiritual principles ...

Setting Social Media Boundaries for Kids and Teens

The world has changed a lot since I was a kid.My teenage years were either spent with my head buried in a book, stretching the phone cord to my room ...

On Losing a Loved One: God Is a Good, Good Father

Losing a parent is never easy.I know. I lost my father one year ago this month.Even as I write those words, I can hardly believe it. I had fallen into ...

Teaching Kids about Prayer

I am passionate about teaching my kids about prayer. That’s because I want my children to know God personally, not just know about Him.Bible stories, coloring pages, and faith-based cartoons ...

Teens: Focusing on Jesus in a Complex and Confusing World

Let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me. This world you inhabit is increasingly complex and confusing. You have more information at your fingertips than ...

How to Be a Brave Girl

I have been reading Brave Girls 365-Day Devotional, and considering what it means to be brave in today’s world. I’m old. When I was 12-years old, bravery looked like riding ...

It's Never Too Early to be Equipped for God's Service

When my oldest son was three years old, I got a major wake-up call as a Christian mama. He had been listening to a Scripture set to music for a ...

I Am Not Alone in this Race. Jesus is My Running Partner.

My husband and I love to run together in the mornings.It started a few years back when my husband decided that he wanted to shed a few pounds and get ...

Ordinary Is the New Radical: Because Jesus Doesn’t Leave Justice to the Professionals

Editor’s Note: Author Chris Marlow shares that we can live on mission wherever we are in the world. You don’t have to move overseas to have a big impact as ...

The Joy of Holiday Cooking With Your Kids

Are you ready for holiday cooking?In our family, the excitement of sharing a Thanksgiving or Christmas meal begins long before we bake the bread, carve the turkey, or serve the ...

How Becoming a Parent Helps You Understand the Unconditional Love of God

Nearly five years ago, my wife, Lauren, and I became parents for the first time when our daughter, Ashlyn Alexandra, was born. Three years later, we welcomed her sister, Madison ...

Kenya’s Kid Missionary: An Unlikely Love Story

If anything has become clear to me over the past seven years, it’s the link between love and craziness. It’s what made me the head of a nonprofit organization by ...

How the Bible is Fundamental to Kids’ Spiritual Formation

The Bible is the most valuable source of strength, teaching, exhortation, and training in my own life as I’m sure it is for yours, too.I introduced my kids to the ...

5 Things You Should Say to Your Kids Every Day to Build Strong Identity

We’ve been back to school for over a month and now that we’ve found our groove, I’ve turned my attention away from school supplies and preparation and on to the ...

4 Reasons Bedtime Stories Are Important

“But it’s still light out. Why do we have to go to bed?” I reasoned.“Because it’s bedtime,” Mom always replied. And so my three younger siblings and I would lie ...

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Free Bible Study featuring Anne Graham Lotz & Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright!

Free Bible Study featuring Anne Graham Lotz & Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright!

Free Bible Study featuring Anne Graham Lotz & Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright!

Discover the unshakable presence of God in every season of your life.

Join the FREE Online Bible Study and get access to 8 study videos and other Bible study resources - all free when you sign up! Study starts 7/13