Our Church and Our Children

Our Church and Our Children

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  • Author: Sophie Koulomzin
  • Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
  • ISBN: 9780881412741
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 196

This book is a re-release of a classic by a distinguished Orthodox Christian religious educator and a foundational read for Christian parents and educators. Koulomzin, who taught Religious Education at St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary from 1954 to 1973, writes as a laywoman, teacher, mother, and grandmother about the task of Christian education. The work is a remarkable compendium of her wisdom. The contents of the book comprise a deep understanding of children, a wise appropriation of educational and developmental theory, a lived knowledge of the Orthodox faith tradition, and a keen sense of Orthodox church life in America. The book is peppered with engaging anecdotes from her half-century of experience working with children in the Church. For Koulomzin, recognizing that children are full members of the Church was of utmost importance, and her life's vocation was encouraging others to see this. Among the key topics addressed in Our Church and Our Children are: the task of Christian education, developmental stages of children, Christian education in the family, the challenges and opportunities of the church school, and a vision and goals for the Christian teacher. It makes an excellent book for either group or personal study. Included in the re-release are a foreword, which gives a glimpse into her incredible personal life, a bibliography, and a chapter-by-chapter study guide.


Helping Our Children Grow in Faith

Helping Our Children Grow in Faith

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  • Author: Robert J. Keeley
  • Publisher: Baker Books
  • ISBN: 1441233504
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 158

Children have serious faith questions that require serious answers, answers that adults often find themselves under-prepared to give. But the Christian community has a responsibility to help its children develop a three-dimensional faith--a faith that affects their heads, their hearts, and their spirits. Helping Our Children Grow in Faith is designed for children's ministry and worship leaders, Sunday school teachers, and pastors--as well as parents--who want to nurture the spiritual development of the children in their lives. It shows how to integrate children into congregational worship, how to teach them the Bible but leave room for the mystery of God, and how to distinguish the difference between faith development and moral development.


Hope When It Hurts

Hope When It Hurts

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  • Author: Sarah Walton
  • Publisher: The Good Book Company
  • ISBN: 1784980749
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Hurt is real. But so is hope. Kristen and Sarah have walked through, and are walking in, difficult times. So these thirty biblical reflections are full of realism about the hurts of life-yet overwhelmingly full of hope about the God who gives life. This book will gently encourage and greatly help any woman who is struggling with suffering-whether physical, emotional or psychological, and whether for a season or for longer. It is a book to buy for yourself, or to buy for a member of your church or friend. For anyone who is hurting, this book will give hope, not just for life beyond the suffering, but for life in the suffering. Each chapter contains a biblical reflection, with questions and prayers, and a space for journaling.


Let the Children Worship

Let the Children Worship

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  • Author: Jason Helopoulos
  • Publisher: Christian Focus
  • ISBN: 9781781919095
  • Category : Children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

A Biblical take on children in church Written from personal experience Offering practical help


It Takes a Church to Raise a Parent

It Takes a Church to Raise a Parent

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  • Author: Rachel Turner
  • Publisher: Brf
  • ISBN: 9780857466259
  • Category : Church work with parents
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

How can churches become centres for empowering parents to raise God-connected children? How can we transform the lives of parents, carers, grandparents and church communities, and the way generations of children are raised? While it is parents who are on the front line of discipling their children, God has placed us as the church to journey alongside them, nurturing and equipping them and cheering them on. This book will help church leaders and volunteers to grow in the skills needed to make our churches places that empower families. It explores how to help parents over the major obstacles that hinder them from proactively discipling their children, and looks at practical ways to lay the foundations of a church culture where parenting for faith can flourish.


Handing Down the Faith

Handing Down the Faith

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  • Author: Christian Smith
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0190093323
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

"This book is about how American religious parents approach the handing on of their religious practices and beliefs to their children. We know a lot about the importance of parents in faith transmission and factors that influence its effectiveness. But we know much less about the actual beliefs, feelings, and activities of the parents themselves when it comes to the intergenerational transmission of religious faith and practice"--


Young Children and Worship

Young Children and Worship

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  • Author: Sonja M. Stewart
  • Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
  • ISBN: 9780664250409
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 334

The authors have devised an exciting way to introduce three- to - seven year olds to the wonder of worship. Activities are developed around the order of worship commonly used in Reformed churches: assemble in God's name; proclaim, give thanks to and go in God's name.


How to Bring Your Children to Christ... and Keep Them There

How to Bring Your Children to Christ... and Keep Them There

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  • Author: Ray Comfort
  • Publisher: Genesis Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780974930046
  • Category : Character
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

"88% of children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18 never to return." Nothing is more important than where your kids will spend eternity. As a parent, you don't want to suffer the heartache of your children rebelling against their Christian upbringing. In this practical book, noted author/evangelist Ray Comfort counters the unscriptural belief that a child can be saved merely by "asking Jesus into his heart," and shares time-tested principles to help parents (and children's workers) guide their children to experience genuine salvation and avoid the pitfall of rebellion. Filled with creative ideas for family devotions, tips for safeguarding kids from harmful influences, and great suggestions for helping kids learn God's holy standard, the Ten Commandments.


To You and Your Children

To You and Your Children

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  • Author: Benjamin K. Wikner
  • Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
  • ISBN: 1591280281
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

Scripture promises that God's people "shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them" (Is. 65:22-23), and that Christ "will turn...the hearts of the children to their fathers" (Mal. 4:6). Yet Christian parents today face a disturbing exodus of their children from the Church to the world. Why is this? What is the place of children within the faith? What do the promises mean? Recognizing that this subject is fraught with difficulty and grief, the twelve contributors to this volume seek to address the hard questions and lay a biblical foundation of hope for our children. Contributors include Timothy Bayly, Joel Belz, Randy Booth, David Hagopian, Douglas Jones, Dr. Nelson D. Kloosterman, Dr. Charles Alan McIlhenny, Dr. Robert S. Rayburn, G. Mark Sumpter, Tom Trouwborst, Benjamin K. Wikner, and Douglas Wilson.


Family Driven Faith (Paperback Edition with Study Questions )

Family Driven Faith (Paperback Edition with Study Questions )

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  • Author: Voddie Baucham Jr.
  • Publisher: Crossway
  • ISBN: 1433528339
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

More teens are turning away from the faith than ever before: it is estimated that 75 to 88 percent of Christian teens walk away from Christianity by the end of their freshman year of college. Something must be done. Family Driven Faith equips Christian parents with the tools they need to raise children biblically in a post-Christian, anti-family society. Voddie Baucham, who with his wife has overcome a multi-generational legacy of broken and dysfunctional homes, shows that God has not left us alone in raising godly children. In his Word he has given us timeless precepts and principles for multi-generational faithfulness. Baucham’s celebrated guide for godly, healthy families is now available in paperback, with study questions added. Parents will find this a critical resource for the spiritual nourishment and protection of the next generation.