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Feb 16, 2024 · We’ve been thinking all week about the fruit of the Spirit as Paul describes it in Galatians 5, and I’ve been reading out the verses because, that way, I hope we’ll memorize these wonderful words of the Apostle Paul almost without effort: “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”
Mar 7, 2024 · Importance of Teaching Children About God's Grace. Foundation of Faith: Introducing children to the concept of God's grace lays a strong foundation for their faith journey. Understanding that God's love is unconditional and boundless instills a sense of security and trust in their relationship with the divine.
- Explaining Grace to A Child
- The Freedom to Be Different
- The Freedom to Be Vulnerable
- The Freedom to Be Candid
- The Freedom to Make Mistakes
- Final Thoughts on Explaining Grace to A Child
It’s not the message of salvation that inclines people toward repentance. That’s just information. It’s God’s kindness that changes hearts and lives. If we want our kids to understand and respond to God’s grace, we need to give them more than information. We need to treat our kids the way God treats His kids — with unmerited kindness. We need to cr...
Let me give you synonyms for different so you know what I’m talking about: weird, bizarre, strange, goofy, quirky. Grace-based homes have room for those kinds of kids. Many kids go through a phase of having weird hairstyles, and it’s often a source of embarrassment for parents. Perhaps their son has just colored his hair and spiked it, and they wor...
Children in grace-basedhomes don’t feel the need to guard their feelings and emotions. They allow their feelings to come to the surface without fear they’ll be attacked or trivialized. Let’s say a second-grade boy becomes suddenly morose. His dad asks, “What’s gotten into you?” “Well,” the boy replies, “there’s this girl at school, and I like her a...
In grace-based homes, children can talk candidly with their parents. What do kids need to be able to be candid about? For starters, spiritual doubts. Maybe they question that Jesus is God or that the Bible is true. Maybe they think there’s more than one way to God (not just through a relationship with Jesus). This isn’t the time to put them in long...
All kids will struggle in life at times. They’ll make mistakes in judgment, and their timing will be off. They’ll say inappropriate things. And they will sin. Grace-based homes give children the freedom to make those mistakes. But just because they have the freedom to make mistakes doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences. Grace is not a lower standa...
As we give our kids these four freedoms, we show them a picture of the freedom we have in Christ. As we create homes where they are treated with kindness, we give them a glimpse of the grace of God toward all who sin and miss the mark. We help them to understand — with their hearts and not just their minds — just how amazing God’s grace truly is. T...
May 18, 2022 · God knows, much more than we do, the horrors of hell. He knows the dreadful extent of his own wrath. And he wants people to be saved. God, who could justly destroy the earth at any moment, has chosen to wait. He is “the Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness” (Exodus 34:6).
Cognitive Aim: Children will know patience is modeled most greatly by our God, is made possible through Christ, and is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. Affective Aim: Children will feel joy in the discovery of God’s patience with us as sinners. Behavioral Aim: Children will praise God through song, pray together, and memorize 1 Timothy 1:16.
- Kara Jenkins
Consider sharing this story with your child using a storybook Bible or by watching a show on Minno. It is a wonderful example of God’s patience.) Because God is so patient with us, we should be patient with others. There are many examples in the Bible of God’s long-suffering and many verses that express his character of patience.
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Jan 14, 2024 · However we must do so with grace and patience, aware that eternity is a heavy concept for kids to absorb. But the Holy Spirit can guide children to embrace biblical truth and the free gift of eternal life with joy and wonder as they come to genuinely know and experience God’s great love!
