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Creative Ideas for Prayer Times with Children

In our intergenerational resource, the Lord, Teach Us To Pray Family Devotional Guide, author Sally Michael gives some excellent suggestions for varying your mode of prayer with children in order to...

Keeping God the Main Thing in Our Children's Be...

Does this type of situation sound at all familiar? (Parent to child): "Now look at what you've done! Because you didn't do what I told you to do, and were...

Encouraging Biblical Literacy in Preschoolers

In a previous post, I made the case and gave suggestions for encouraging biblical literacy in our nurseries. What comes next? Preschool, 2- to 4-year-olds. At the preschool level, children...

What is in the Box?

There is something special about receiving a package and experiencing the excitement of slicing through the tape or ripping the tab off in order to get the first glimpse of...

Specific Things to Pray for Your Children

Earlier this spring, Jon Bloom posted an article, “Seven Things to Pray for Your Children,” at Desiring God. Here is a summary of his seven things to pray: That Jesus...

Active Learning Goes Beyond Activity

One of the God-given means for influencing the heart and the will is to encourage students to be active participants in the learning process. Most people would agree that it...