72 Family Devotions for Spiritually Training Your Kids
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Featuring 72 action-packed, easy-to-lead family devotions. Set aside a night or two each week for a "special time" where you and your kids can have family fun together and learn valuable lessons from God's Word. No advanced planning is needed. Anyone can do this. Just grab your special time devotion for the night and it will tell you what to do and what you need, if anything. To make these devotions even easier, we have designed them to use items that are commonly found in most homes.
The ebook contains devotions concerning a variety of topics including salvation, fear, trust, sin, forgiveness and much more.
Kolby & Mary Beth King
God changed their lives… With that being said, Kolby is the children's minister at First Baptist Church in Owasso, Oklahoma, where he and Mary Beth, his wife, minister to 150 elementary students each week. They are also the founders of three-thirty ministries, a resource network for the purpose of providing affordable resources to churches and families around the world. Kolby is a ventriloquist (which basically means he likes to talk to himself) and Mary Beth eats fire as a way of sharing the Gospel. During their years in evangelism and student ministry, they picked up other interesting ministry tools including stunts with six-foot balloons, balloon sculptures, fire-juggling (which one should never do on a windy day!), and a variety of other unique activities for the purpose of sharing Jesus with others. Learn more about events or training conference they can bring to your church or organization at http://www.threethirtyministries.org/kolby-king. "Jesus must become greater; I must become less." John 3:30
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72 Family Devotions for Spiritually Training Your Kids - Kolby & Mary Beth King
72 Family Devotions
For Spiritually Training Your Kids
Kolby & Mary Beth King
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Of all the nobles matters to which an individual can devote himself—from the political office that leads a nation toward moral correctness, from the writer’s pad upon which years of knowledge and wisdom pour, to the laboratory where the cure for an incurable
disease is revealed—nothing so compares to the great work of investing one’s life in raising godly children who fully devote themselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Table of Contents
Introduction
An Artificial Culture of God
General Topic Devotions
Build a Fort
Treasure Hunt
Fun Hair Night
Hit or Miss
The Shield
Goodbye Sins
One Way
Toothpaste Squeeze
Spoon Catapults
Izzy Dizzy Walking Wobble
Tongue Twisters
Light Please
Temptation Tools
Possible or Impossible?
Walking in Darkness
Clean Pennies, Clean Hearts
A House of Cards
Oh, What a Change!
Resurrection Power
Rolled Away
Cereal Feed
Sink or Float
Make Them Disappear
Showing Something New
Taste Testers
Devotions on Prayer
Casting Cares
Knock, Knock—Part 1
Knock, Knock—Part 2
Bread and Fish
Have Nots, Ask Nots
Stay Alert
Who’s Your Daddy?
The Great Race
Devotions For Godly Living
Balance It!
Spin
Walking Straight
Fight for the Faith
Gonna Get Your Goat
Let the Cat Out of the Bag
Keep Knocking
Toilet Paper to Go
Honest Conversations
Whatever! (You Do)
Rejoice!
Sustained!
What’s in the Bag?
The Good Samaritan
Big Choices
Don’t Quit
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Be Bold Tag
Imitators
God Provides
God Protects
Be Alert
Anger
Teased
What You Expected?
Christmas Devotions
Taste It
The Squeeze
Fruitcaked
Gift Wrapped
Eat the Treat
Ice Cube Melt
Nothing Can Separate
Snowless Snowballs
Great Change
Devotions for a Snowy Day
Make a Snow Angel
Make a Snowman
Follow in the Footprints
Dirty Snow
Almost Gone
Appendix
A Guide for Sharing Bedtime Stories from Your Own Experiences
Sample Bedtime Stories
About the Authors
This book is dedicated to our four sons: Jayden, Jaxon, Nathan and Titus, for whom many of these devotions were originally written. Be godly men and follow Jesus everyday. Everything you've ever wanted in life is found in Him.
Other Books by Kolby & Mary Beth King:
Creative Bible Lessons for Children
30 Children's Worship Lessons
52 Bible Lessons for Students
Overflow Evangelism Training
Character-Teaching Bedtime Stories for Kids
52 Devotions for Youth Leaders
How to Lead a Child to Christ
Every Man's Inferno
An Artificial Culture of God
_______________________
What a child believes by the time he is thirteen will dominate his belief system for the rest of his life and yet I fear that many of the children growing up in our churches are developing a worldview that perpetuates an artificial culture of God. By artificial
I mean that many of our children are not getting a true picture of reality. The culture of God
many of them are experiencing is produced and confined inside the walls of the church building. What is communicated to a child when he comes to church and hears the preacher tell the great truths of the Gospel and hears his teacher tell him that the Bible is his guide to life, and yet the Bible is never read and discussed at home? Does it not say that such things, meaning the Gospel
and the Bible
belong there—at the church—and that they do not affect the home environment or how life is lived outside the church? What does a child learn when he sees his parents pray only at the church-house but never witnesses their joined and individual communication with God on a daily basis? What volumes are imprinted on the minds of our children when they hear us Amen
the preacher who stomps his foot against sin and yet they sit next to us in our living rooms as we watch and laugh at the very things we opposed from our pews? Does this not tell him that this culture
of prayer and Bible reading and Christian living belong only at church? That such things are performed as a religious duty in a religious environment but have no relevance to everyday life? May God forbid that by our own actions of ignorance and neglect our children may grow up without the understanding that God permeates every moment, every breath, every thought, and every action of the believer. That there is not a move made, a bite taken, not even an insignificant second that is not under the direct influence and lordship of Jesus Christ. Perish the idea that we may leave our children nice houses, names of good repute, a fortune in inheritance, and even a moral lifestyle without an eternity of hope. Shall we, by our own neglect, condemn our children’s children to darkness and despair? By the heritage we pass, shall our great-grandchildren learn of our faith or shall they be left with the poor, fading rubbish of the worldly things and life we left behind? For I am convinced that of all the nobles matters to which an individual can devote himself—from the political office that leads a nation toward moral correctness, from the writer’s pad upon which years of knowledge and wisdom pour, to the laboratory where the cure for an incurable
disease is revealed—nothing so compares to the great work of investing one’s life in raising godly children who fully devote themselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Build a Fort
_______________________
YOU WILL NEED:
-1 flashlight
-Your Bible marked at Psalm 56:3 and Psalm 18:1-2
GET STARTED
Have your family members ransack
the house to get pillows, blankets, chairs, and whatever else they can find to build a fort. Take your time making it and let your kids be creative with it. (For example, they might want to make a tunnel entrance.) Build it big enough for everyone to fit inside.
From inside the fort use your flashlight to read Psalm 56:3.
ASK—What is something you’re scared of?
SHARE—Share something you were scared of when you were a child.
ASK—What should we do when we’re scared? (Trust God.)
ASK—Why can we trust God? (He’s faithful. He’ll never let you down. He’ll always keep His Word, etc.)
Read Psalm 18:1-2 from your Bible.
ASK—How is God like a fort (fortress, stronghold) for you? (In old days people went inside a fortress to be safe. Its walls protected them from harm. God is a shield for those who follow Him and like a fort, you are safe in Him.)
ASK—Does this mean that bad things will never happen to someone who is living for Jesus? Why or why not? (Bad things still happen to good people, but there’s nothing so bad that God can’t turn it to your good.)
If they want a further answer, explain that sometimes we do wrong things and these bad choices bring bad
things into our lives. But sometimes we do everything right and someone else does something wrong and we get