Lent Madness with Children
Participation in Lent Madness can be turned into a family ritual, like lighting the Advent Wreath at dinnertime or saying bedtime prayers together.
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Scripture engagement works. My teens dove deeper.
God’s story is rich with adventure, love, deceit, and every situation and emotion imaginable. My kids are hooked. My new theory about reading the Bible with kids: they’re never too young to be challenged, and they’re never too old to wonder. Join us as we read Luke and Acts!
I was finished with marriage, but marriage wasn’t finished with me.
Human beings break their promises. But God doesn’t break promises to us.
Our family’s Twelfth Night traditions help us keep the twelve days of Christmas.
At Epiphany we celebrate that Jesus came as the savior of the whole world.
St. John looks for Jesus – and so do we.
As the detritus of Christmas surrounds us, where do we see Jesus?
Christ accepted Thomas’s questions. That’s a parenting lesson for me.
Jesus doesn’t scold or question Thomas; instead, he offers Thomas exactly what he needs.
This year, Christmas came early (but we were together).
This will be the first Christmas in my life I did not spend with my daughter.
Liturgical Year, Parenting
Bringing Carols Home for Christmas… and Advent
One Advent, completely by accident, Christmas carols became part of the bedtime routine. And we were glad.
Liturgical Year, Parenting
How We Keep Advent: Books, Nativity, Devotionals… and Milkshakes too.
We do not keep elves on any of our shelves to send behavior reports to the North Pole. Christ came for us while we were yet on the naughty list.
Three Keys to Living the Liturgical Year at Home (without overwhelm)
The key to expanding our traditions and journeying joyfully into the church year is three fold – flexibility, simplicity and repeatability.
