Make Room: A Child’s Guide for Lent and Easter is a primer on Lent and Easter for young children. It’s part poetry, part practice and part storytelling. It’s divided up into four parts, making time, making space, making room and Holy Week. It describes difficult concepts such as sacrifice and emptying in ways that are friendly […]
I can’t imagine communion without children being present, partaking in the sacrament right alongside adults. I’m always taken aback, then, when I hear of people or churches requiring communion be reserved for children of a certain age, or for children who have completed some “to do” on the checklist, such as a public profession of
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We like to mix up the dinner time prayer at our house. Sometimes we sing a short song or say what we’re thankful for. Sometimes we say a traditional prayer. Sometimes we try something different. Recently we tried a new exercise I wanted to teach you here today. The exercise was inspired by the video
A Dinnertime Gratitude Practice for Families: How Did The Food Get to the Table? Read More »
Treasure Box Tuesday is a weekly (well, mostly weekly, some weeks are skipped) email of all the best resources for Children/Family Ministries. I link to interesting articles, products, books, conferences and all sorts of great goodies. It’s also the main way I keep y’all informed about what’s I’m working on. I often include special discounts,
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You’ve asked for it, and here it is! Children and Family Ministers have been asking me for months for a study guide for Faithful Families, and it’s finally HERE! Faithful Families is not a book that lends itself to traditional study because it’s a book of practices that are meant to be, well, practiced. I’ve been mulling
Faithful Families Study Guide: 4 Week Guide — FREE! Read More »
Does teaching belief in Santa lead to a feeling of betrayal once a child learns the “truth” about him? How should Christian parents teach about Santa in a way that fosters trust and encourages mystery? There are certainly a wide variety of opinions out there. Mine is this: Christian parents would do well to teach
Shared Truths About Santa and Jesus: How to Talk to Children Read More »
Advent snuck up on me this year! I can’t believe it. It means my baby daughter is almost one year old! Wow! I’m glad to be able to get you this Advent roundup just in the nick of time. This list is, in no way, exhaustive, but it’s a list of my favorite ideas for
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Recently I’ve been actively working on making sure my children and I are bored on a regular basis. Yep, that’s right. I’m trying to be bored and to make sure the rest of my family is too. It all started a few months ago when I heard an episode of the RobCast called “The Importance
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I’ve gushed about Jerusalem on this blog before. We’ve never met in real life, but I really can’t wait for the day she comes to San Antonio. I’m going to march her right over to Bird Bakery so we can eat cupcakes and share stories. In the meantime, these “virtual chats” are a fun way
At Home in This Life, Interview with Author Jerusalem Greer! Read More »
Somehow, inexplicably, we woke up yesterday and our baby boy was six years old. How is that possible? How often I wish it would just slow down (a la Nichole Nordeman’s beautiful song, guaranteed to make you cry.) I believe tradition, spiritual practice and ceremony can be a way to add meaning to our days,
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