All Faith at home articles – Page 6
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Faith at homePack up your troubles (in your pencil case)
How do we prepare our children for a new school, class or educational experience? How can we ensure we’re supporting them even in the midst of their anxiety? Transforming Lives for Good’s Rae Morfin shares her thoughts
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Faith at homeStory for home: The throne and the hot coal
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God time during the day. Enjoy doing the actions and sound effects together! You could also use it as part of a children’s session.
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Faith at homeForming faith rituals: Growing our belief
In his book, Children Finding Faith, Francis Bridger says that faith can be seen in four Christ-centred dimensions: believing, trusting, doing and imagination. Having previously explored doing, I’d like to consider what we mean by believing and what we can do in our faith at home to grow our belief.
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Faith at home“Is the answer Jesus?”
Struggling to find the answers to the big questions questions? Gareth Crispin has some ideas
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Faith at homeA really good fisherman
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God time during the day. Enjoy doing the actions and sound effects together! You could also use it as part of a children’s session.
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Faith at homeParenting your teenage children
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus turns to his followers and says: “You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). The first picture Jesus uses to illustrate this is “a city on a hill” which has come to represent the Church. As we gather together as this community of ‘called-out ones’, which is what Church literally means, we are to be this light. The second picture is a “lamp on a stand”, whose job is to “give light to everyone in the house”.
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Forming faith rituals: Active in faith
Faith without works is dead. But what does it look like to develop an active faith at home?
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Faith at homeForming faith rituals: Do ministry together
I spoke at our church’s Easter Sunday service. It was an ‘all together’ service, so all the children were present from babies upwards, including my own. In part it was brilliant to have them there, but in part it was really tricky. Why?
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Faith at homeKing Saul’s caught short
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a ‘God time’ during your day. Introduce the story by telling everyone that it is a whispering-shouting story, so you will tell them when and what to whisper, and when and what to shout. You could also use it as part of a children’s session.
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Faith at homeStory for home: Three times
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God time during your day. You could also use it as part of a children’s session.
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Faith at homeChildren and grief
Last week, a tragedy happened in a town near us when two young boys were killed in a hit-andrun. One mother, whose daughter knew the boys, asked if I knew of any resources that could help them.
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Faith at homeI’m so tired
“I’m feeling so awake today!” said no teenager ever. We all know the signs of tiredness: bags under the eyes, pallid skin, frequent headaches, dry lips, sugar cravings. And that’s just when we look at ourselves in the mirror!
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Faith at homeStory: Palm Sunday
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a ‘God time’ during your day. Introduce the story by telling everyone that it is a whispering-shouting story, so you will tell them when and what to whisper, and when and what to shout. You could also use it as part of a children’s session.
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Faith at homeJoining the dots
Ed Mackenzie explores how parents can intentionally build networks and relationships in their children’s life to encourage faith formation
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Faith at homeForming faith rituals: Contemplative family time
What does the phrase ‘family devotions’ conjure up for you? A family of four sitting around the kitchen table, one quietly reading the Bible and another leading the family in intercession for the nations?
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