Graduating Your Children to Christian Service
Don Johnson My title sounds a bit formal, but I mean for this article to be more of a personal testimonial to my own dear mother, in her ninety second year, still irrepressible, but slowing down...
View ArticleChildren in the Worship Service
Thomas Overmiller Sometimes people ask me why we include children in our Sunday morning worship service, rather than send them to a separate program. The reason is a biblical one. It appears that...
View ArticleA Child Can Walk with God
Thomas Overmiller Perhaps we underestimate the potential for a child’s walk with God. A child can be born again (Matt. 18:3). (I was born again at 2 years old.) A child can choose to be baptized. And...
View ArticleThe Power of Heartfelt Values
Thomas Overmiller A Pagan Messaging Frenzy The noteworthy “media” statistic for parents used to be the average number of hours teenagers spent in front of a television screen. This is no longer the...
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Beating First World Syndrome
Do your kids ever manifest symptoms of First World Syndrome? Recent generations of young people have been groomed to have a certain sense of entitlement about them. That something is owed them. That...
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Dealing with the Wiggleworm: Tips on Keeping Children Engaged
Children must be discipled with care and devotion. A child is no less a citizen of God’s kingdom than their parents; they are not second-tier after thoughts to God like so many of our ministries seem...
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How Valuable Is Children’s Ministry?
Here’s a statement that will probably make most pastors and church members pause: Children’s ministry may be the most important ministry of your church. D.L. Moody once said, “If I could relive my...
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Training Children to Worship
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6). The goal: Train up a child in the way God designed him. God designed mankind to be dependent...
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Discipline: What If Scripture Isn’t Politically Correct?
There lurks within every human heart an intractable rebel, bent on refusing the rightful lordship of Jesus Christ. There is, of course, no answer to this defect other than the grace of God. The gospel...
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God Made Boys and Girls, a review
“Mommy, let’s get this book!” My three-year-old daughter exclaimed as she pulled a sparkly pink book about drag queens off the library shelf. Visit the library these days, and you’ll quickly find that...
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