Tag: children
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Lessons I want To Teach My Children (part 2)
Let’s continue looking at Dennis and Barbara Rainey’s article called “40 Lessons We Sought to Teach Our Children.” Here are the second five: 6. Believe God for too much rather than too little. 7. Real strength is found in serving, not in being served. 8. The power of moral purity and a clean conscience. 9.…
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Lessons I want to Teach My Children (Part 1)
I was looking at the familylife.com website for inspiration again this week. If you haven’t checked them out, I would highly recommend their thoughts on family, parenting, and general home life. They are thinking deeply about something that most of us parents are just trying to keep afloat – our families. This week I saw…
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A Limited Number of Days
What would you do if you knew your days were limited? What would you change? By: Lisa Ellsbury (guest devotional) I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Mainly, I suppose, because I have children with medical issues. Medical issues that will ultimately shorten the number of days they have on this earth. This fact…
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Reminders from Children’s Camp
This last week I was able to be camp pastor for Metro’s Children’s Camp. As always, it was a great experience. It wasn’t just great because I was able to share the gospel with a group like that. It was great because the children reminded me again how precious our relationship with God is. For…
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Memorials
Like most of you I am thinking about the past this week. Monday was our nation’s observance of Memorial Day. For many of us, this is a time to remember and appreciate the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform. I use this time to also think about the people in my life who…
Pastor John D Jakes 