Keep each practice to approximately 10 minutes. With very young children, five cheerful minutes is better than twenty frustrated ones. Day 1: Remember Whose You Are Read: Genesis 17:7 Say together: “God has called us to belong to him. Our family wants to know, love,...

Family life can become busy almost without our noticing it. The calendar fills with school, work, sports, activities, appointments, and social commitments. Each individual decision may seem reasonable, but together they can quietly determine what our family values and...

Psalm 115 reminds us that every person is a worshiper. The question is never whether we worship, but what we worship. And the sobering truth of this psalm is that we become like the object of our worship. The psalm opens with a...

Psalm 116 is one of those passages that doesn't feel carefully constructed or theologically layered. It feels like a burst. A man who has been through something so desperate, so close to death, that when God answers His prayer, the only thing He can think to say is: I...

Zephania 3:14-15 When most people think of Christmas in our cultural moment, they picture trees and lights, candy canes and presents, family gatherings and tradition. Christians rightly also think of the manger: Jesus born to Mary and Joseph, because there was no room...

Good Friday Is the day that Jesus died. Have you ever had someone close to you die? It is painful thing. It can feel like the world suddenly went empty, even dark. Death is tragic. In the beginning there was no death. God created all that is in the world and called it...