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Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Growing Your Faith Together

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Is Your Child Being a Good Neighbor?

Being a good neighbor requires modeling consistency in displaying your love, compassion, and respect to the people within your neighborhood. Help your children love their neighbor by showing them how to build relationships with the people who live next door to you.

Faith Conversation: A Beautiful Love

All the excitement about Valentine’s Day makes it easy for us to spend a day focusing on romantic love, but committing to act in love all year long is more difficult.

Faith Conversations: Honoring Marriage

How we talk about our spouse and our marriage matters. Let’s consider that, especially when we’re involved in a conversation in which spouses are being bashed or divorce is being suggested.

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Nine Spiritual Temperaments

There are at least nine distinct spiritual temperaments that determine how a person worships and relates to God. See if you can recognize yourself (and your spouse) in these descriptions.

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Your Spiritual Temperament Quiz

How do you relate to God? Take this quiz and find out which of the nine spiritual temperaments best describes you.

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Christ is Lord

Do your children understand the meaning of these words? Use these age-appropriate activities to help them better understand what “Christ is Lord” means.

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Teach Us to Pray

Kids can talk to God whenever they want. To help them understand more about prayer, try using these age-appropriate activities.

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The Reason for Hope

In a culture that has lost hope, use these activities to teach your kids what hope is and that they do have a hope. 

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Teaching Kids About Heaven

Learn the principles that can help your family begin a Bible-based conversation about our eternal home.

Did Baby Jesus Wear Diapers?

Are you looking for a way to effectively respond to your child’s questions about God?

His Joy in Us

To reach the newborn King, the wise men may have journeyed nearly 1,000 miles across sweltering deserts. But when they found Jesus, they experienced the joy of His presence. Are others drawn to the Lord because they see His joy in us? 

Compassion for the Homeless

When your tweens ask about the homeless, do you know how to respond? Read about ways to engage your tweens’ growing sense of observation and justice.

Hit the Pause Button

Do your kids know that the Sabbath is a time for rest and worship?

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Blessing Your Children

When you bless your children, you reinforcing your children’s worth.

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What Is Hospitality?

How have you trained your children to show respect to those who are in your home, city or country? Here are some ideas for teaching hospitality.

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Got Self-Control?

Once children understand the need for self-control, it’s easier to train them in this fruit of the spirit. 

Finding Goodness

Can kids be good on their own? Show them what goodness really is with these age-appropriate activities.

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The Power of Kindness

Kindness is one of the few things that will gentle the response of others. Teach kids how to show kindness to others.

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Love One Another

Help kids learning what true, biblical love looks like with these age-appropriate activities.

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What Is Joy?

Try these ideas to help teach your children the true nature of joy