Wondering which children’s Bible is best for your kids? We’re digging into the options with questions to consider and real-parent insight to help you find the most engaging kids Bible for your family. As parents, we all hope to grow a love of reading in our kids. That’s why we cuddle up in a rocker… Read more
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A Simple and Meaningful Christmas Gift Plan for Families
If you love gift-giving (and gift-receiving) as much as I do, I’m sure you have already stashed away a few items for your loved ones, or perhaps you are preparing lists and beginning to scope out sales. If you haven’t yet thought about Christmas gifts, no worries. I hope this idea helps you plan and strategize… Read more
Raising Boys and Girls Podcast: S4, E27 Talking to Kids About Easter (Jess Wolstenholm)
Join Sissy Goff, David Thomas, and Melissa Trevathan as they chat with Minno’s Director of Education and Faith Formation, Jess Wolstenholm, on talking to kids about Easter and planting seeds of faith in our families. . . . . . . . . . . SUBSCRIBE to the podcast so you never miss an episode! If… Read more
A No-Pressure Invitation to Abide This Lenten Season
It’s been a tough season—vaccines, quarantines, politics, work, kids at home, remote learning, winter sports that may or may not happen. Anyone else feel like you’re kind of just skipping from one thing to the next? Grounded is not the word a lot of us are using these days. Yet here we are at an… Read more
It’s Not Too Late to Celebrate Advent
It’s Not Too Late to Celebrate Advent . . . We’ve all been the tired Christmas mama before—the one who braved the malls (maybe stayed up way too late on Amazon), decked the halls, and planned ALL the holiday meals. Today, on this week-after-the-Sunday-of-Advent, we want to encourage the mom who feels like she’s already… Read more
Family Advent Reading Plan from the Laugh and Grow Bible for Kids
Grab the Laugh and Grow Bible for Kids, written by VeggieTales and What’s In The Bible? creator Phil Vischer, and guide your family on a journey through God’s Word as you anticipate Christmas! If you are looking for a way to engage your kids in the conversations that matter this Christmas season, we invite you… Read more
A Fresh Perspective on Advent
Think about five words for a moment: Hope. Peace. Joy. Love. Surrender. “Well, Erick,” you might say, “Aren’t we all experts at surrender right now? It is 2020 after all.” True. We have all surrendered a lot this year. Sometimes, we welcome the opportunity for a change of pace. But most likely, you have dug… Read more
4 Reasons to Start an Advent Candle Tradition with Your Family
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. With all its programs and parties and consumerism, sometimes Christmas makes me want to run and hide. I’ve tried to bring a deeper sense of peace to the season using daily Advent readings, but always fall behind around Day 4. Over the past few years, I have found… Read more
The History of Christmas
What is the history of Christmas? Did you know that Christmas didn’t become an official holiday in the United States until 1870? And you may have noticed that nowhere in the Bible is a festival of Christ’s birth celebrated. It was several hundred years after Jesus’s death that the Church created a “Feast of the… Read more
After Easter: The Way of Forgiveness
If you asked your kids to repeat what they know about Easter, they might say: “Jesus died for our sins. We ask for His forgiveness. Jesus rose from the dead!” That is true. And it is a simple, yet incredibly profound series of actions that we do celebrate this weekend. Christ, the initiator of our… Read more