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5 Tips For Having Devotions With Toddlers

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Having family devotions with children at any age is a challenge. With young children especially, parents must combat the “wiggle worm” and a short attention span. However, family devotions are vital to the healthy spiritual life of a family. Young children are often taught to pray during family devotions. They learn to ask questions about God and talk about Him openly. Everyone in the family benefits from spending time together around God’s Word. For those of you with young children, here are a few tips to help you make family devotions a vital part of your family life. 1. Start … Continue reading →

Favorite Devotion Books

As promised, I am going to list some family devotion books that I recommend. Most of these my family has used. The ones that we haven’t used have been given high marks by some of my friends. First of all, more than any devotion, I recommend reading the Bible with your children. Help them hide God’s word in their heart while they are young. I have recommended these books before. This time I am attaching links. My family loves Egermeier’s Bible Story Book. It is accurate and the stories are in chronological order. The stories are well told. They are … Continue reading →

Family Devotions

If your family is as busy as mine, you know that it is difficult to set aside time to do family devotions. It is, however, vital to a Christian family. As parents, it’s our job to teach our children about God and to help them love His word. During devotion time we do these things. For my family, we have done it differently at different times. Our church used to meet on Saturday evening, so we would use Sunday morning to do family worship. My husband learned to strum a few kids’ worship songs on his guitar and we would … Continue reading →