Do you get excited at the beginning of each New Year? In my home, there’s a palpable sense of anticipation as our family watches the New Year’s ball drop in Times Square. When we change our calendar from December to January, I always experience a strong sense of renewal and rekindled hope as we lean…
Praying Over Your Children in the New Year
With the New Year upon us, I begin to think about the things that I want to do in the next few months. Some of the ideas come quickly, and some require more thought. But there is one consistent commitment I make each year and that is to grow closer to the One to whom I’ve…
New Year’s Plans and Priorities for Your Family: Seek God First?
With a New Year looming on the horizon and sparkling new planners that beckon us to fill every waking moment of our family lives with activities that engage, entertain, yet often distract us from the really important things in life, I’ve come to realize that if we truly want to impact the world for God…
4 Tips to Help Our Kids Relate to Bible Stories
One of my favorite things to do is read Bible stories with my kids. I grew up going to church, but Bible reading didn’t really happen at home. I loved the flannel-graph stories that my Sunday school teacher told, but these stories were usually theme-based and told out of order. As an adult, when I…
Give Your Kids Hope
I was a worrier as a child. I had a wonderful childhood and I didn’t worry all day long, but I would lie in bed at night thinking about things that could go wrong — like missing an assignment or a friend not inviting me to a birthday party. Small things turned to big things…
We Have a Great Big God: Teaching Kids the 3 O’s of God’s Character
There is no doubt that we serve a great big God. He is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. But if we use those adjectives to describe God’s bigness to our young kids, their eyes will grow wide with confusion – thinking we’ve lost our mind or that we’re speaking another language! Helping kids understand their great…
May the Faith Be with You
He’s the only one who can spread out the heavens. He alone can walk on the waves of the ocean. He made the Big Dipper and Orion. He created the Pleiades and the southern stars. He does wonderful things that can’t be understood. He does miracles that can’t even be counted. — Job 9:8-10 (NIRV)…
Loving Your Kids Like Our Good, Good Father Loves Us
As I sit here thinking about how I teach my children about God’s deep love, I find myself in awe. My love is so imperfect… finite where His is infinite! How am I supposed to be able to teach my children about the perfect love of God? God takes my love, despite its imperfections, and…
Our Top Books for Mom 2018
Are you looking for gift book ideas for the moms in your life? Here are our FaithGateway Top 10 book selections for Mom! These titles will bring comfort, sisterhood, understanding, wisdom, direction, and load of laughter for every mom. 1. Decluttering at the Speed of Life While the world seems to be in love with…
Do You Need a Hug Today? Why We Should Share Hugs Year Round
December is one of my favorite months of the year. That’s because I see my friends and family in December more than any other time of year. In addition to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we meet up at school concerts, class parties, church, cookie swaps, and gift exchange luncheons. We may shop together, cook…