Category: Devotional
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The Lord’s Prayer for Children
Our Father in heaven, help us to honor your name. Come and set up your kingdom, so that everyone on earth will obey you, as you are obeyed in heaven. Give us each day the food we need. Forgive us for doing wrong, as we forgive others. Keep us from…
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Rohan’s Spring 2015 Prayer
Dear God, Thank you for this new season in our family’s life. Thank you for Daddy’s new job. Please help us all adjust to our new schedules. Teach us how you love us in new ways. Help us find ways to show that love to other people. In Jesus name, Amen.
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Anjali’s Daughter Prayer
Dear God, I want everyone to know I am your precious daughter. Thank you for loving me and giving me everything I need. Help me to treat everyone kindly even when I don’t get my way. Please make me like Jesus. Amen.
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Rohan’s Fruit Prayer
Dear God, I need your help. Please fill me with your Holy Spirit. Teach me self-control. Show me your love, joy, peace & patience. Help me be a kind, good, gentle and faithful friend. I ask this in Jesus name, Amen. Inspired by Galatians 5.
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Lenten Prayer 2015: Make Me Like Jesus
Dear God, Thank you that you love us like Jesus. Thank you for laying down your life so that we can be forgiven and find our glory in you. Thank you for sending us into the world to save those we love and you love. Thank you for your Transforming…
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Rohan’s School Prayer
Dear God, I want to have a great day. Watch over me as I learn and play. Help me to listen and obey my teachers, my parents, and you. Remind me to always be a knight Show me how to do what’s right And walk away from every fight. In…
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Trinitarian Sinner’s Prayer, Part I: The Father
I’ve been wrestling with how and when to encourage my children to make a profession of faith. I recently realized that God used an incremental process to reveal Himself to us: Father as Creator & Judge Jesus as Savior & Lord Spirit as Comforter & Counselor It seems like that…
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Evangel, Part V: Living The Gospel
“For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who…
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Evangel, Part IV: The Bad News
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live…
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Evangel, Part III: The Good News
“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” — John…
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Evangel, Part II: The Story of God (and Me)
“Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first…
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Evangel, Part I: What is the Gospel?
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.” – Romans 1:16
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Joshua 4: Stoned In To Your Mind
Questions: What is worth celebrating? How does Joshua anticipate God’s commands? Why must we remember God’s wondrous works? When do we teach our children? Read more to pursue answers in [Joshua 4]
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Joshua 3: Holy Shittim!
Questions: Why should the Israelites stay a kilometer behind the ark? How does God exalt Joshua? To what end? Where should priests keep the presence of God? What is the connection between “relationship” and “results”? What’s the secret to leading a large group on inconceivable adventures? Read more to pursue…
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Joshua 2: The Whore of Jericho
Questions: Who is Rahab? Why is she a harlot? How come she was so ready to help the spies? What is God trying to teach Joshua? Where should I be looking for those God has placed to help me fulfill my purpose? Read more to pursue answers in Joshua 2
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Joshua 1: Dying to Lead
Questions: What must it have felt like to be Joshua? How can we lead men to fight the very shame that destroyed their fathers? Is having God with you the secret to being strong and courageous? Read more to pursue answers in Joshua 1
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Leviticus 4-6 Ignorance is Blitzed
Questions: Are we accountable for unintentional sin? How much? Does it depend on who we are? Or what kind of sin? What if we can’t pay the price? What if we sin against our neighbor? Does that cost God? “Read More” to pursue answers from Leviticus. [Ed. note: Yeah, it…
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Proverbs 3 Miss Understanding
More, we need to actively fear God’s punishment if we try to abuse that world for own selfish purposes.But this fear doesn’t weaken us, it strengthens us:It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.In fact, the more we give over to God, the better off we’ll…
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Leviticus 1-3 Sacrifice Play
From this I presume that the children of Israel were already in the habit of bringing offerings, but were (at best) inconsistent in their quality: his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will…
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