Family Challenge: Keeping a Sabbath
Memorize this passage as a family: Exodus 20:8-11: Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your…
Family Challenge: Developing Our Gifts
Memorize this verse as a family: Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has prepared in advance for us to do. Listen. Ephesians 2:10 tells us that God made us in a special way by giving us special gifts because he has something special for…
Family Challenge: Community Worship
Memorize this verse as a family: Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell richly as you teach and admonish each other with all wisdom, as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your heart. Listen. Community worship is when people who love Jesus meet together to learn the Bible and sing…
Family Challenge: The Gospel
Memorize this verse as a family: 1 Thessalonians 2:8 We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us. Listen. The Apostle Paul helped the Thessalonians learn to follow Jesus by sharing the gospel and…
Family Challenge: Prayer at All Times
Memorize these verses as a family: Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving present your requests to God. James 5:13 Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Conversation: What do James 5:13 and…
Family Challenge: Praying for Others
Memorize this verse as a family: Acts 17:26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. Listen. God made everything. God made everyone and placed everyone to live in a certain…
Family Challenge: Giving Generously
Memorize these two verses as a family: 2 Corinthians 8:9: “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.” 2 Corinthians 8:14: “At the present time your plenty will supply what they need,…
Family Challenge: Reading to Do
Memorize these two verses as a family: James 1:22: “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” Matthew 5:19b: “…whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Listen. Last we learned that how to listen and respond to God through prayer.…
Family Challenge: Learning How to Pray
Memorize the Lord’s Prayer as a family: Matthew 6:9-13: This then is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors.…
Family Challenge: Being Still
Memorize these two verses as a family: Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth Isaiah 30:15a This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy one of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust…
Family Challenge: Citizenship in Heaven
Memorize these two verses as a family: Philippians 3:17: Join with others following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. Philippians 3:20: But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen: Paul didn’t just tell…
Family Challenge: Importance of Environment
Memorize these two verses as a family: Luke 11:13 “If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will you Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Acts 2:42, 47b They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the…
Family Challenge: Fishing for People
Memorize these two verses as a family: Mark 1:17 “Come follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 5:19b “… whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Talk about what God is trying to tell us through these two verses. Ask: Jesus…
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