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Praying for our kids at school: what to pray about
School years can be a time of enormous growth and blessing for the children in our lives, but they can also be incredibly challenging. This makes praying for our kids at school massively important! But...
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Making Time for Health and Fitness
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? 1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV) This year I made a commitment to treat my body as the temple God created it to...
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Book Review – Baby, Baby! by Diane Stortz
I am so tickled to review another new book by Diane Stortz, author of The Sweetest Story Bible and Say and Pray Bible. Stortz’s new book, Baby, Baby! is a delightful board book, so it is perfect for...
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FREE Men of the Bible Coloring Page-Noah
This week’s free coloring page is about Noah, who obeyed God even when his friends thought he was crazy! Has anyone ever thought you were crazy for believing in God’s Word? Chances are they have, and...
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Never Give Up!
Did you watch the Olympic Games? What impression have they left with you? For me, the theme Never Give Up! has come across in so many different ways. In my last post The Great Race I about running well...
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Celebrating the Small Stuff
At my house, we love to celebrate. We celebrate the usual stuff that most families do, like holidays and birthdays. But we also have been known to celebrate small victories like making it through a...
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Fear and Anxiety
Every year as the summer months draw to a close, children return to school. Many children are excited and happy; others are filled with fear and anxiety. Perhaps they are nervous about attending a new...
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Acting Out Bible Stories
Last week we looked at Baby, Baby! by Diane Stortz. It is a board book full of super fun baby actions – waves, wiggles, bounces, jiggles – to name a few. Don’t the words make want you to act it out...
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Nurturing the Fruit of the Spirit
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control sounds like a parent’s wish list for their children. It’s the Fruit of the Spirit. It’s not plural because...
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Teaching Biblical Truths to Children
I keep walking into spider webs. I just don’t see them. I’m keeping the spiders busy. The other day, one of those webs reminded me of Eric Carle’s The Very Busy Spider. A spider drops in on a farm....
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Praying for Your Job
With Labor Day weekend upon us, I wanted to take a moment to talk about work. Whether we consider the task of making money to support our family a job, a career, or a calling, one thing remains the...
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A Preschool Devotion Routine
Preschoolers love to pretend, AND they love to be just like their older siblings. Back-to-school time is an opportunity to combine those loves into a preschool devotion activity. When the older sibs...
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Joyful Work
I’ve always found it a bit contradictory that we celebrate Labor Day in the United States by enjoying a day off from the very work we are celebrating. For 20 years I commuted to a job in New York City....
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Keeper of the King’s Son
It’s an honor for me to welcome my daughter, Teri McKinley, as my guest author for today. This article is from an online devotional, published by Discovery House: The birth of a new baby is always...
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Easing First-Day Anxiety
by-Staff-Sgt-Cody-Harding_MorningCalmWeekly-Newspapers_flickr.com_6914493023_104f8b288b_z.jpg Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up. Proverbs 12:25 Mikey entered kindergarten...
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5 Ways to Tell if Your Child is Ready to Accept Jesus
This post first appeared on this blog in April, 2012. I’m a firm believer that God works in the hearts of children just as much as he works in the hearts of adults. And I believe a child can choose to...
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Back to School Opportunities
Back to School Opportunities Christian School Clubs Children have many extracurricular options to choose from these days: drama club, debate club, soccer, football, and so much more! What...
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Grandparents Day Activities
Tomorrow is Grandparents Day! Every grandparent I know cherishes each moment with his or her grandchildren. Grandparents Day is the perfect time to share time with grandparents, whether in person or...
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What about Fairies???
Some of my favorite stories I read in my beginning readers were fairy tales. I enjoyed imagining these tiny people dancing in the grass and playing games. I remember once as a child finding a rotted...
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Incredible Way to Bring the Gospels to Life
The stories really happened. In our hearts, we know this, but sometimes it’s hard to imagine the stories in the Bible taking place in real time and space, just as real as the buildings we pass on the...
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