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Creative Ways to Celebrate Spring With Your Family

See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come… – Song of Solomon, 2:11-12What is your favorite ...

Good Friday and Children: Making the Cross Real to Your Kids

Teaching children about Good Friday isn’t easy, especially if you’re talking with younger children. How do you explain why Jesus had to die? That Jesus knew ahead of Good Friday ...

Celebrate Easter with a Treasure Hunt – With a Twist

Spring has arrived which means… Easter is coming! Is your family as excited as ours is about Resurrection Sunday?My family loves celebrating with an Easter treasure hunt! While we’ve all ...

Jesus or the Easter Bunny: An Easter Memory

As I think back on the years of celebrating the Easter holiday with my husband and children, my memories are filled with Easter morning church services, frilly handmade dresses, matching ...

Jesus' Birth: A Year-Round Conversation

Christmas is almost here, and amidst the hustle and bustle, all of us Christian parents are concerned with one thing — making sure our kids remember that Christmas is about ...

How to Set Family Goals: Becoming a Family with Purpose

Have you set any family goals or resolutions for the new year? I like the word goals better than resolutions. New Year’s resolutions always seem doomed to fail, and if ...

Four Ways Families Can Keep Christ In Christmas

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – the Christmas season is here! Everywhere we turn, the sights, sounds, and wonders of Christmas surround us ready to captivate our ...

10 Fun Fall Kids Activities and Crafts

I really love the fall. I suppose all of the seasons lend themselves to nature-study activities and crafts, but fall seems to be especially rich to me. My kids and ...

Teaching Children Gratitude - My Extreme Measures

Teaching my children to be thankful and have an attitude of gratitude has been one of my greatest challenges as a parent. Like many children in our Western culture, my ...

Helping Kids Express Everyday Gratitude

Finding ways to grumble and complain is easy. Choosing to look for ways to express gratitude can seem like one of those dreaded last chance workouts on the hit series, ...

10 Great Thanksgiving Books for Children

Teach your children about Thanksgiving traditions, gratitude and giving thanks to God this month for all their blessings with this collection of 10 of our favorite Thanksgiving books for children.Reading ...

5 Ways to Help Kids with Back to School Anxiety

Do your kids suffer from back to school anxiety? My two older children are both in grade school. Neither had experienced any type of school anxiety before, even when entering ...

10 Verses to Pray for Your Daughter

I have always wanted to be a prayer warrior.I remember hearing stories of the power of prayer from missionaries that would come to our church growing up, or testimonies of ...

Christ-Centered Easter Traditions for Kids

One of the best parts of being a parent and having my own family is getting to pass on family traditions, as well as starting new traditions of our own. ...

Preparing Our Hearts and Minds for Easter

Holiday seasons are wonderful, but it’s easy to get wrapped up in the busyness of preparations for activities and forget that our hearts and minds need preparation as well. Easter ...

4 Ways to Honor God on Valentine's Day

I love loving the people who are special to me.I love all things sweet and sappy and sentimental. I love red puffy hearts and pink shiny bows and glittery Valentine ...

Free Resources

Free Online Bible Study by Margaret Feinberg

Free Online Bible Study by Margaret Feinberg

Let's study James with Margaret Feinberg for 5 weeks! You'll read the entire book of James from start to finish, memorize a verse each week with companion FREE coloring pages for each Scripture, and receive FREE access to 5 study videos by Margaret. Study starts 4/22!