Tired of Christmas gifts you spent too much time finding, buying, wrapping, and affording? Fed up with them being stepped on, crammed under, forgotten, or thrown-out…all by the time February rolls around? Give differently this year. Or at least give some gifts that will grow your kids’ (or your grandkids’) faith! Check out this Christian gift guide for kids.
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5 Quick Teaching Tips for the Hardest Moments
You know those moments. A sweet innocent child suddenly has turned into a 1980’s Gremlin and you’re looking for a microwave. (Not really, but really.) Or maybe it’s the slow build up. The whole morning is a study in advanced passive aggressive laser-eye-looks from a 3rd grader who just happens to be your daughter. There’s so much huffing and puffing and slamming of doors, with “Nothing wrong” that you feel like a class 5 hurricane is abrewin’ and you have no idea how to batten down the hatches…for the 5th time that week.
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I Don’t Trust Your Love
This sign hung from the footbridge that goes across the street on the hill near where I live. It overlooks one of the main thoroughfares in my Northwest town. During the first few weeks of our all state lockdown in March some do-gooding community members wrote “You are Loved” on a bed sheet, and hung it from the footbridge.
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Raccoons Reading the Bible
I like shiny things.
I like shiny things so much that there was a time in my life that when I was asked what my favorite color was, I’d say “Shiny”. (I’ve also said paisley, but that’s another story.) Truth be told, I also like trash—or at least things other people would consider trash. Shopping at thrift stores is an addictive dopamine inducing hobby for me. And not just the regular second hand stores, but what we like to call “The Bins”.
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7 Alternatives to try for Church at Home
My church = Bible based sermons that I absolutely love. But watching the pre-recorded church service at home during the time of COVID, wasn’t cutting it for our kiddos (ages 8 and 6). My husband and I watch every Sunday, but we needed to also figure out a different way of doing church as a family to serve the needs of our kids.
So here is a roundup of different ideas for doing church at home.
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Surviving On-line Church at Home…with Kids.
Church service streaming during COVID pandemic can be tricky, and pastors are working a monumental amount of overtime to figure out how to connect their community of believers, while keeping the vulnerable safe.
But watching from home can be tricky as well.
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