Faith is learned at home

Teachings for everyone at home, stories to tell and family worship guides.

For fathers

• Teach along the way
• Correct without wounding
• Presence that protects
• The blessing before the performance
• One by one, by name
• Talking is not setting limits
• The father who runs
• Tell what God has done

For mothers

• Treasuring it in her heart
• Pouring out your soul
• Faith learned on a mother’s lap
• In each child’s way
• Gently led
• The God who sees the mother on her own
• Lord, help me
• Protect and let go

For husbands

• Love as Christ loved
• Live with understanding
• No bitterness
• Lead with the towel
• Be the first to reconcile
• The guarded spring
• Who builds the house
• Comfort without taking center stage

For wives

• Submission that begins mutual
• When only you believe
• Clothed in strength and honor
• Wherever you go, I will go
• Wisdom that speaks up
• Priscilla: gifts put to work
• Women who teach women
• Martha, Martha: weariness

For couples

• Covenant, not contract
• The gentle answer
• Forgive without pretending
• Where fights come from
• Money in the open
• Giving yourselves to each other
• Righteous, and childless
• When only one believes

For children

• To honor is to give weight
• Growing up whole
• Jesus opens his arms
• Don’t go to bed angry
• A garland for your head
• The greatest commandment
• When I am afraid
• The boy’s lunch

For teens

• Knit by hand
• What about him?
• A covenant friend
• Your body is not disposable
• The peace that stands guard
• Thomas wasn’t thrown out
• Let no one despise your youth
• Honoring parents who get it wrong

For grandparents

• The grandparents' crown
• The faith that began with a grandmother
• Even when old and gray
• A grandson in Naomi's lap
• Growing old while waiting
• A widow who never retired
• When grandparents become parents again
• Returning the care

For the whole family

• The house on the rock
• Open door, table set
• Eat, be satisfied and bless
• A day to breathe
• He and his daughters
• The LORD bless you
• Stones that tell stories
• Those who cannot repay

For hard times

• Grieving, but with hope
• When healing doesn't come quickly
• One day at a time
• The evil God turned around
• Ropes of love
• For those who feel rejected
• Under the broom tree
• The silence that protects the abuser

Stories to tell your children

• God makes everything good
• Noah and the rainbow of promise
• Joseph forgives his brothers
• Crossing the sea
• Ruth and Naomi
• Speak, Lord
• David and the giant
• Daniel in the lions’ den
• A Baby in a Manger
• The Boy Who Asked Questions
• Jesus Calms the Storm
• The Boy's Lunch
• The Good Samaritan
• The Father Who Runs
• Zacchaeus in the Tree
• Let the Little Children Come
• Jesus weeps with his friends
• Jesus washes feet
• The cross
• The empty tomb
• Called by name
• The road to Emmaus
• The Spirit comes
• Songs in prison

Family worship

• God made everything with love (Creation)
• Courage that comes from God (David and Goliath)
• Trusting when you're afraid (Jesus calms the storm)
• Loving those in need (The Good Samaritan)
• The Father's embrace (The Prodigal Son)
• The greatest news in the world (Jesus is risen)
• Forgive as we have been forgiven (Forgiveness)
• The only one who came back to give thanks (Gratitude)
• Serving like Jesus (Service)
• Words that build up (Our words)
• The widow's offering (Generosity)
• Learning to pray together (The Lord's Prayer)

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