5 Tips for Memorizing Scripture with Your Kids

5 Tips for Memorizing Scripture with Your Kids

Chrystal Hurst

Helping your children to memorize scripture is a gift you can give your children that will yield blessing - both immediate and years to come.  The discipline of scripture memory can build intellect, shape hearts, and clarify God's Word in the soul of your child.  While many of us know to teach children John 3:16, the Lord's Prayer, and maybe even Psalm 23, scripture memory can be so much more.  Children have a great capacity for memory work.  Unlike adults, their minds are these wonderful blank maps in which loving believing parents can etch Biblical pathways that will yield blessings in the lives of their children for years to come.

Longing, Readiness, and Anchoring Hope

Kara Chupp

Frustrated.
That's how I felt.

I wrote this article for the first time earlier today.  And it took me nearly two hours.
And then my computer froze and the dreaded-dread-thing happened.  I had to restart the computer and when I returned to the article everything was blank.

Gone.

How To Actually Have A Restful Sunday With Little Children

Jessica Smartt

Before I had kids, here is what I would do on Sundays. First of all, I would leisurely wake up. (Why, oh why, did I not treasure those days?!?) Then I'd take my time getting dressed in some nice, actually-stylish clothes. I'd sometimes stop at a coffee shop, bringing along my Bible and journal. Then I'd grab a bagel before Sunday school, where I listened to the whole entire lesson without one interruption. After church, I'd go for a relaxing lunch with friends, read a little, take a nap, maybe take a walk...and go to bed well-rested for the week ahead.

The current Jessica (who has three young children and a husband who leads worship and is thus no help on Sunday mornings) LAUGHS at the good old days.

The irony is, this current Jessica ACTUALLY NEEDS a Sabbath.

20 Reasons I am Thankful

Carlie Kercheval

In a world where we are conditioned to want more and complain about what we don't have, I find such solitude in giving thanks to God for the little things. I am so grateful for a God who can give me the right perspective when it can be so tempting to focus on my immediate circumstances.

In this season of thanksgiving, I'm reminded how important it is to share how thankful I am in everything. In sharing our gratitude we honor Christ and encourage one another to live a life bent towards Him. He is the very reason we have anything to be thankful for. Today I am sharing 20 of the many reasons I am thankful.

20 Reasons I am Thankful

How to Find a Circle of Mentors

Elisa Pulliam

It was the last thing I expected her to say as we were standing in the lobby. 

I really wish I knew how to find a mentor.

She seemed like the type that would be surrounded with mentors, but the fact was she had this ache in her heart for older women to come around her at church and nurture her life. She wanted the seasoned women of this world to speak into her soul and overflow onto her hope, perspective, insight. 

Who doesn’t among doesn’t want a mentor like that? 

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