Category: Bible
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Memory verse puzzles for Deuteronomy 31:6 and Philippians 2:4
Each month our church has a theme and Bible verse for our kids to memorize for Sunday School. I got inspired by Jolanthe’s Awana memory verse puzzles over at Homeschool Creations, so I created my own for my kid’s verses (sadly she has since had to take most of them down). This month the theme…
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Battle of Jericho
I made the mistake of telling my kids that in a few days, we’d be building the city of Jericho as part of our homeschool history lessons and then destroying it (I’d never do this as a Sunday School lesson because too much chaos for our class of 30). As you can imagine, that immediately led to…
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Teaching your kids about giving
As a Christian, there are some pretty clear things God tells us to do, and what starts in Sunday School needs to continue at home as family discipleship. One of those is to care for those who are less fortunate than us, and being in the United States makes us pretty much better off than…
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We are beautiful
First let me start off by explaining this post, Kim over at Mom Tried It (now defunct blog) is sponsoring a blog hop of sorts. It’s not about gaining readers or getting compliments, it’s a celebration of the fact that we are beautiful (start playing sappy music now). There is so much in our culture…
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Teaching giving through buying Christmas presents for our siblings
One of our goals is teaching giving as part of our family discipleship, which is a sort of Bible lesson. One easy way to start is giving Christmas presents. Each year the kids go out and buy presents for their siblings and for their parents. We split up the kids, one per adult (drafting my Mom…